Mriana

Was telling a friend a story about the film “the ring” where in the climax it pretty much scares the shit out of anyone who was told ghost stories as a kid. I saw it with friends in the cinema and everyone yelled out loud at the climax. My friend (there aren’t so many ghost story telling culture in Spain). He thought it was ridiculous that anyone…[Read more]

That doesn’t make sense. You put it in “quotes” but then talked about it like it was a real thing. So what did you actually mean?

So many Irish Catholics were “offended” by this comedy show that it was first broadcast on British TV (Channel 4). Some (but very few) find almost every scene offensive. I love to hear them ranting about it. Some were even more offended the second time they watched it!! Here.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I overheard a comment once that “the singer” did “kinda look Japanese-ey enough to play the part so that nobody could really take offense” with the production. It happened at the interval here. I just bit my lip. I was taught by people from India to cook Indian food. I wonder (not) if its OK for for me to continu…

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I overheard a comment once that “the singer” did “kinda look Japanese-ey enough to play the part so that nobody could really take offense” with the production. It happened at the interval here. I just bit my lip.

I was taught by people from India to cook Indian food. I wonder (not) if its OK for for me to continue to do so? I mean I wonder if…[Read more]

Bear with me and you’ll know why I’m putting up a Katy Perry video.

After this performance, Katy was criticized for “cultural appropriation,” a very common postmodernist critique. There is another video which I won’t post wherein a young white man with dreadlocks was also accused of cultural…[Read more]

Here is another postmodern cartoon.

Ironically, about 15 years ago while visiting my brother in Ann Arbor, Michigan, we went to an art exhibition which was truly amazing. As we walked through the various rooms, we saw a number of paintings on canvases of various sizes and shapes, all of them painted white.

Yeah, if they want a culture war, let’s give ’em hell..

Maybe the best way to do that would be to expose them to some culture 🙂

I haven’t exactly been hanging about on that score 🙂 I am making plans with the postmodernist rabbit.

_Robert_ wrote:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Whatever happen to moderation? Can we afford the luxury of being moderates when extremists on both sides are making so much noise?

Perhaps the moderate and rational people can make some noise as well.

Yeah, if they want a culture war, let’s give ’em hell.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Whatever happen to moderation? Can we afford the luxury of being moderates when extremists on both sides are making so much noise?

Perhaps the moderate and rational people can make some noise as well.

Whatever happen to moderation?

Can we afford the luxury of being moderates when extremists on both sides are making so much noise?

DIAF is a postmodern term.

Jody Lee wrote:
All extremists should DIAF. @unseen What should they do? I’m not familiar with that acronym… lol

Die In A Fire…I think Unseen is just being extreme.

All extremists should DIAF.
@unseen

What should they do? I’m not familiar with that acronym… lol

_Robert_ wrote:
Whatever happen to moderation? Everything is so extreme. We have legions of full blown nationalist, racist, sexist, science denying, Jesus loving, homophobic right-wingnuts….. and…. anarchistic, gender political, guilt assuming and speech limiting, Islam coddling leftists.

If you are moderate they all hate you. Many friends act…

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Whatever happen to moderation? Everything is so extreme. We have legions of full blown nationalist, racist, sexist, science denying, Jesus loving, homophobic right-wingnuts….. and…. anarchistic, gender political, guilt assuming and speech limiting, Islam coddling leftists.

If you are moderate they all hate you. Many friends actually…[Read more]

These days, I prefer to be creative, rather than follow a particular “paradigm”.  I can’t keep up with what is going on now.  I like watching classic movies though.

Did you spot Drucker or Baudrillard from my “hyperreality” reference above? I once saw Frank Zappa in concert and have been to the little Dali museum in Barcelona. I enjoyed both as experiences within themselves, like most things in life. I seldom read reviews after the event. I have no great impulse to completely deconstruct any work of art bec…[Read more]

The problem with a lot of the postmodernist narrative is the same as the problem with other aspects of the avant garde, and that was once expressed this way: “The problem with the avant garde is that there is no distinguishable difference between the avant garde and a parody of the avant garde.”

Cases in point: the music of Frank Zappa and the…[Read more]