A drug-filled beast and an ennui-prone alligator sum up 21st-century life, but at least Flaco the owl is a positive role model
, the new film based on a 1985 true story about a bear in Tennessee who snuffled a stash of drug smugglers’ cocaine and went into a deep-fried southern frenzy. Why Hollywood waited nearly 40 years to dramatise this is beyond me, but come 2023, Cocaine Bear is all of us: nihilistic, crazed, hypervigilant and doomed.
Not everyone’s so positive. In Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, a 4ft alligator was pulled out of the lake. He was probably an unwanted pet and any gen X-er who grew up reading trash novels and watching movies knows exactly how that goes. From the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the Gremlins, from Catwoman to dog attacks that turn out to be werewolf bites, everything ends up as a chaotic, supersize alien hybrid horror or urban vigilante.
Apologies to anyone reading this while drinking a normal beverage in a normal way, but Starbucks has announced that it’s going to desecrate – sorry, elevate – the time-honoured ritual of drinking coffee. The chain isAnother simple pleasure, another sacred moment, ruined. Imagine a thick rope of raw yellow salad oil oozing out of a giant squeezy bottle, coiling in slow motion into a dainty little espresso and swilling about in unmixed globs of pure fat.
Oh yeah? I was 10 days late and had to be induced because I need the world to give an explicit sign that it wants me. Even so, I was eventually born by emergency caesarean at 9pm on a Saturday. Yep: primetime. I also refused to be breastfed. I still went on to be the best.
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