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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Wet Clammy Skin
The mold was set quite young. In his famous “Moose” routine from his stand-up days, Woody Allen displays many sides to his both charming and harming love-hate relationship with himself and those who are described as fans.The Moose has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Mark Jenkins, Stand-up, Stand-up Comedy, Woody Allen, Woody Allen Moose
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They're Thru With Love
Princess and Prince Harming with a noose around their neck, gently twisting in the wind on a gallows pole of our imagination. Woody Allen is the unlikely bourreau, the bespeckled anti-hangman with his obliquely absurd message on love after pulling … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Artie Kornfeld, Billy Wilder, Chicken of the Sea, Love, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Jenkins, Woody Allen
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'Pataphysics of Protocol
His every pronouncement creates a media circus. He is a baron of mass media and one of its anti-heroes. Silvio Berlusconi did not get to exchange kisses with Michelle Obama at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh last week and had … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Berlusconi, G20 Summit, Iago, King Ubu, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Mark Jenkins, Michelle Obama, Obama, Roman Polanski, Silvio Berlusconi, Ubu Roi
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Everybody's a Star Except The Madman from Laval
”The problem, he argues, is the nearly psychotic need to satisfy every human craving. It infects every aspect of American life, from the loss of cultural nuance to the growth of pornography to spending beyond one’s means.” ‘The danger of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Chris Hedges, Guy Debord, King Ubu, Mark Jenkins, Pataphysics, Ptaphysics, Sam Harris
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Thirsty for Public Art
London landmark ,Hyde Park’s first new drinking fountain in 30 years will undoubtedly create competition and draw traffic from Speaker’s Corner , that institution of generally absurd or foul mouthed pronouncements on any subject worth throwing money into a hat … Continue reading
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Tagged David Harber, Hyde Park, Mark Jenkins, Michael Freeman, Speaker's Corner, W.B. Yeats, Yeats
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Sister Substitutes for the Class Conscious
The war as a reliable barometer on the viability of the arts and cultural memory. The relationship bewteen culture and memory is no more pronounced than it was in wartime London where, due to circumstances beyond control there was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Hamilton, Mark Jenkins, Myra Hess, Richard Hamilton, Social Class, Vera Lynn, Warner, Who Voted for Hitler, William Lloyd Warner
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Whistling With An Ordinary Sweetheart
During the war, when the BBC played Vera Lynn’s The White Cliffs of Dover, the German guns , installed in France, opened fire on Dover. In the finalscene of Doctor Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick, a bombardment secene perversely enacted to … Continue reading
A Hopalong with the Man in Black
”Like all heroic tales, the story is an intertwining of many lives, including Grace Bradley, a 12 year-old girl who fell in love with a charismatic silent film star and ten years later fulfilled her childhood vow to marry him, … Continue reading
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Tagged Don Mclean, Grace Bradley Boyd, Herbert Marcuse, Hopalong Cassidy, Mark Jenkins, T.V Westerns, Topper, William Boyd
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Designed to an Art
A massive chess set with 6 feet tall ceramic paces created by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon. Called ”The Tornament” the pieces sit inTrafalgar square, like medeival jousters; under the watchful gaze of the statue of Lord Nelson as the admiral … Continue reading
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