‘Toxic Fiction’ (2013)

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Gigantic oversized image of Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing. Not what I wanted, but sometimes you have to settle for what you can get.

Can you emulate a TV villain? Setting aside the question of why you’d want to.

How about if it was a really cool villain?

Toxic Fiction

Many of you are way too young to remember a show called Dallas, featuring an antihero named J.R. Ewing (played by Larry Hagman, who used to be in I Dream of Jeannie). The show was a huge hit, and the J.R. character became a national icon. What does that tell us about our nation? People wanted to imitate the bad guy!

‘Toxic Fiction’ (2013)

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Ooh-ooh! I wanna be a TV villain! I don’t have a show, but I can still be a villain!

Toxic Fiction

Many of you are way to young to remember Dallas, a red-hot hit of a TV show starring Larry Hagman as iconic antihero J.R. Ewing. J.R. captured the public’s imagination: the more evil he did, the more they liked him.

Well, we don’t need J.R. or Dallas anymore; we have real-life villains that make him look like a philanthropist, and the daily nooze coming out of the Biden administration puts Dallas in the shade. And unlike Dallas, it’s on every day, not once a week. J.R. was a saint compared to these stiffs.