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On South Park
First, it’s a situation comedy. A situation comedy that deliberately offends some in order to humor others. That’s not really so unusual. It’s not really “teaching us to be tolerant,” however. The majority of comedy has always been (since Euripides, … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, free speech, obscenity, reviews, South Park, television
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Hanging on Dreams
I know you want me to say I love you in some tired cliche: forever in a bright pink bow with Hallmark lines I ought to know; and when I speak, some hidden strings should start to play. It should … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged advertising, disappointment, dreams, mass media, reality, television
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I Blame Lawrence Welk
I love old songs, and I love mixing it up and keeping ’em guessing. For that, I blame Lawrence Welk. Some jazz cats look down on Welk’s ensemble (compared to Goodman, Ellington or Kenton it was a SWEET band), and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged Americana, influences, inspiration, Lawrence Welk, music, music education, musicianship, television
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Gray Days #4
She’s waiting on the deputy, but he never comes; got her finger on the trigger, sucking silent on her thumb; and the ninety ninth caller has just been struck dumb: like an old pair of stockings he just turned to run. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged depression, isolation, loneliness, pointlessness, psychology, television
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Earthseasick
Tolkein’s world of fabled creatures did not speak to me of my own sense of purpose, or responsibility and so its strange translation onto film I did not mind; except the Ents and Bombadil, who Jackson left behind. But Earthsea, … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptations, disappointment, Earthsea, parallels, reviews, television, translation, Ursula K LeGuin
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Television: canzone
Canto I (The News): To watch the TV news is to discover that there is nothing new under the sun: a movie star found with a younger lover, convenience store held up by man with gun, insurgents kill more soldiers … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, brainwashing, canzone, daily poems, Italian verse forms, mass media, poetic forms, television
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Like a Bird on a Wire …
The other night I saw a portion of NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS. He was interviewing Will Hutton (author of the book A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE: WHY AMERICA SHOULD JOIN THE WORLD, an old friend of America’s, but a … Continue reading