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Arts Express
Wed, Aug 19, 2026 9:00 PM
TAMMY BLANCHARD CHECKS IN
** "When the world sees 'vulnerable' they will eat you alive. They'll tell you, take this to feel better, they want to use you up - and in the end, I went into this dark place..."
Tammy Blanchard Talks Test, Her Judy Garland And Gypsy Rose Lee, Memories Of Peter Falk - and Rust Belt testosterone bodybuilding hell in Test connected to toxic masculinity, Hegseth, her PTSD stricken Vietnam War soldier dad, and the on and offscreen dark side of obsessive fame in a competitive culture...
** "If Americans knew the truth about their government's foreign policies, they would be in the streets going mad - it's like if somebody comes and says, your dad's a serial killer..."
Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on wars, pinatas, and 'US politicians as sharp as a bag of wet mice.' And what all that has to do with bananas at 35 cents a pound, CIA puppets and giant slave farms; Niger uranium and Iraq oil money in US banks - and 'I'm gonna say something that's unpopular but I could care less, because that's what I do...'
** "The minute I stepped inside the Washington Heights branch of the public library, I fell in love with Miss Anna Gill Finane, assistant librarian. I fell in love with her glinting green eyes, with her shimmering auburn hair, with luscious red lips - I was nineteen..."
Story Corner: James Joyce Destroyed My Romance. A fellow fatale Joyce excursion, from the pen of Angela's Ashes Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Frank McCourt. Stay tuned, and all will be revealed...
Plus...Scareplane...starring Donald Trump...'the most exciting airplane film you've ever seen, since the last one you saw...'
