Randal Hendrickson

@hendrickson.bsky.social

Political Theory PhD, history of ideas sort, MS in Library and Info Science. Working out some stuff at "The Vapors.” Would love you to have a look. https://thevapors.substack.com/

When I went into the shop and asked how much for these jeans, a little man wearing a fisherman’s cap and a repp tie as a belt slapped me and said he could offer me the GAP jeans in the trash if I would take the trash out and never come back. So I get Kelly Clarkson’s rage.

Eric Schmitt: “Did you or did you not blow your family’s savings on some fucking beans, steal a bunch of shit from a giant, and enlist his wife in the betrayal, you absolute dirtbag?” Jack Smith: “That’s Jack and the Beanstalk.” Amy Klobuchar: “You got your Jacks wrong.”

Eric Schmitt: “We got you now, you son of a bitch! My team has evidence of your being courtside at Lakers games for decades.” Jack Smith: “That’s Jack Nicholson.” Amy Klobuchar: “You got your Jacks wrong.”

Braudel’s great “The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II” ends with Philip’s death on a September 13th, my bday. I take this to mean that the death of Philip II announces my birth and a New Mediterranean World. I need a boat.

I feel bad for teaching Travis Kelce how to spell “squirrel.” I was just fucking with him. He’s huge. Huge men don’t feel, so you can fuck with them. Anyway, I believe misleading him set him up for Ponzi scheme and marriage victimhood. I am sorry.

A: “Power to the people!” B: “Which power? There isn’t just power. There are three sorts of power in the political world. So which of those to the people? You see, it’s not so simple.” A: shoots B

I bet my marriage would be better if we got engagement photos near a fucking barn while we stared at each other’s faces, or if we held hands, smiled like idiots, and pretended walking is hard as we crossed railroad tracks.