Some News items. But mainly personal opinions that may be unreasonable, without warrant, meaningless and shameless but relentless and consistent as a blinking light. Of course there is that story about Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the guy who discovered and named oxygen & hydrogen and executed during the reign of terror. He purportedly asked a servant to see if his eyes blinked after he was beheaded. No one could prove the story. But maybe we can see after death.
Monday, February 6, 2012
I'm not troubled by the garishness of the Superbowl
I don't know if I'm troubled by any of the hoopla, the adverts, the
laundry (as Jerry Seinfeld once put it. Uniformed professional sports is
just laundry as the men in the uniforms constantly change though the
uniforms stay the same. Whatever.). Seems to me that the Superbowl is
just a loud, gaudy piece of Americana bordering on what passes for a
holiday. How different is it from the ridiculousness that a day like
Halloween has become for adults or for that matter a holiday where
people stuff themselves silly with a so-called traditional dinner or the
white sales during President's Week & (ironically) MLK Jr.s day or
the exploding bombs on the fourth of July? and let's not forget the
"religious" holidays. Symbolism you might think. But symbolism
representing what? The Superbowl is just the evolution of the
hucksterism of a P.T. Barnum and all the boorishness, gratuitousness,
vileness and expansiveness America has become heir to and has attached
to all its holidays. But hell if you love football you just go with the
flow. . .
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