Issue 34
News: Historical Revisionism; Everybody's doing it! Even money-grubbing corporations!
Recently I saw an Episode of Drawn Together in which the character of Foxxy Love gets turned into a Racial Stereotype as a result of Radiation sickness. She is eventually taken away by a Political Correctness squad which takes away other stereotype cartoons and puts them away to be erased. At the End, One character equates these actions with Denying Slavery or The Holocaust (which a larger number of people actually do than one may think, even though it makes no sense to deny something which so many people experienced firsthand). After this I discovered that a Black-maid-style character had not only been removed from Fantasia, but basically Declared an "Un-Character" by Disney. A lot of films from the era also tend to be scrutinized by the public (like Birth of a Nation or Gone With the Wind or The Little Rascals) , although in most cases, the makers don't out and out deny their existence, just keep them relatively hidden. My point is that if one is offended at the way one was widely believed to be sixty plus years ago, then he should keep in mind that it is just history, nothing more. If one needs to truly be concerned about race relations today, one must try to worry about the way one race was thought of 60 years ago less than whether we can be able to coexist without race riots.
Band Name of the Day: Kirilov. It comes from the name of a character from Dostoevsky's "The Devils", picked because of the connection with Ginsberg, who was inspired to write "Howl" after meeting Carl Solomon, who introduced himself as Kirilov.
Film Idea of the Day: Million Dollar Bagel: Be True to Your Little House on the Prairie. This will be a film about Million Dollar Bagel (see Issue 31) running for president in the first ever US Presidential Recall, caused by the entire Cabinet falling under control of a madman.
Film Review of the Day: I usually write reviews of films I saw recently which I like, but this time, I will write a review of a film I saw recently which I hate: Only You. There will be spoilers.
The film begins as a younger version of Marisa Tomei's character being told twice, once by ouija board, and a fortune teller, that her husband will be named Damon Bradley. Years later, she is a schoolteacher engaged to a doctor. One early scene shows her demonstrating how Plato said that man was cut in two because the Gods felt threatened as if she just had an epiphany she couldn't wait to tell the world, as the class looks on in Ben-Stein's-class-in-Ferris-Bueller-like boredom as she releases them for spring break. Nine days before the wedding, she gets a call from a man calling himself Damon Bradley from an Airport going on a trip to Venice. She immediately leaves for Venice and abruptly calls off the wedding in lieu of Following him. She looks all over Italy until she ultimately finds him in another airport. In between she meets two guys who claim to have that name, one of which she likes, but calls off the relationship when she learns that his name is not Damon Bradley, and a childhood friend claiming that he rigged the Ouija board and paid the Fortune teller $2 to say Damon Bradley would marry her. Damon Bradley was real, but just a jerk the friend knew in Baseball.
About the film I must say that I found it hard to believe that it came from the same director as Agnes of God and Soldier's Story. Also, because of its feel and at one point ripping it off, accents of Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn and all, it seems like an Audrey Hepburn film lost for 30-something years. Lost for good reason.
Quote of the Day: Two speeches by Noam Chomsky about the rudimentaries of Freedom of Speech: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/8010-free-expression.html, http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/8102-right-to-say.html
Link of the Day: Bob from Weebl and Bob's Blog.
Recently I saw an Episode of Drawn Together in which the character of Foxxy Love gets turned into a Racial Stereotype as a result of Radiation sickness. She is eventually taken away by a Political Correctness squad which takes away other stereotype cartoons and puts them away to be erased. At the End, One character equates these actions with Denying Slavery or The Holocaust (which a larger number of people actually do than one may think, even though it makes no sense to deny something which so many people experienced firsthand). After this I discovered that a Black-maid-style character had not only been removed from Fantasia, but basically Declared an "Un-Character" by Disney. A lot of films from the era also tend to be scrutinized by the public (like Birth of a Nation or Gone With the Wind or The Little Rascals) , although in most cases, the makers don't out and out deny their existence, just keep them relatively hidden. My point is that if one is offended at the way one was widely believed to be sixty plus years ago, then he should keep in mind that it is just history, nothing more. If one needs to truly be concerned about race relations today, one must try to worry about the way one race was thought of 60 years ago less than whether we can be able to coexist without race riots.
Band Name of the Day: Kirilov. It comes from the name of a character from Dostoevsky's "The Devils", picked because of the connection with Ginsberg, who was inspired to write "Howl" after meeting Carl Solomon, who introduced himself as Kirilov.
Film Idea of the Day: Million Dollar Bagel: Be True to Your Little House on the Prairie. This will be a film about Million Dollar Bagel (see Issue 31) running for president in the first ever US Presidential Recall, caused by the entire Cabinet falling under control of a madman.
Film Review of the Day: I usually write reviews of films I saw recently which I like, but this time, I will write a review of a film I saw recently which I hate: Only You. There will be spoilers.
The film begins as a younger version of Marisa Tomei's character being told twice, once by ouija board, and a fortune teller, that her husband will be named Damon Bradley. Years later, she is a schoolteacher engaged to a doctor. One early scene shows her demonstrating how Plato said that man was cut in two because the Gods felt threatened as if she just had an epiphany she couldn't wait to tell the world, as the class looks on in Ben-Stein's-class-in-Ferris-Bueller-like boredom as she releases them for spring break. Nine days before the wedding, she gets a call from a man calling himself Damon Bradley from an Airport going on a trip to Venice. She immediately leaves for Venice and abruptly calls off the wedding in lieu of Following him. She looks all over Italy until she ultimately finds him in another airport. In between she meets two guys who claim to have that name, one of which she likes, but calls off the relationship when she learns that his name is not Damon Bradley, and a childhood friend claiming that he rigged the Ouija board and paid the Fortune teller $2 to say Damon Bradley would marry her. Damon Bradley was real, but just a jerk the friend knew in Baseball.
About the film I must say that I found it hard to believe that it came from the same director as Agnes of God and Soldier's Story. Also, because of its feel and at one point ripping it off, accents of Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn and all, it seems like an Audrey Hepburn film lost for 30-something years. Lost for good reason.
Quote of the Day: Two speeches by Noam Chomsky about the rudimentaries of Freedom of Speech: http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/8010-free-expression.html, http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/8102-right-to-say.html
Link of the Day: Bob from Weebl and Bob's Blog.
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