The inaugural poem was better than I'd any reason to hope.
The bar must have been buried several feet below ground!
I find the musical background annoying but (earnestness alert) this is one of my favorite things ever, certainly IMO the best American sermon. I also have a MLK day tradition if listening to it.
I also like hearing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at public events.
I can't express how over political speech making I am by now, so I rate the inaugural a "whatever." Do or don't do. There is no speech.
I also like hearing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at public events.
I don't think I've ever actually heard it played at a public event, but as far as I'm concerned it should be mandatory. I'd particularly support it replacing "God Bless America" during the 7th-inning stretch. Double at any game played south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Oh, you know, it matters I think a little that now our president gives speeches with lines like, "From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall." But largely agreed.
7: I hink he was referencing today being Jackson-Lee Day in Virginia.
The background music is a little too close to Sad Trombone for my taste in this context.
Eric Cantor does not share the views about the inaugural poem expressed in 1.
Is a discourse in which Eric Cantor is a piece of shit and yet the poem wasn't so great either too nuanced for us these days?
Ok I'll be the designated moron: what on earth is this?
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Cavallero:
Ambivalence is pivotal to the carnival: what is permitted inside its boundaries is licensed only insofar as it is couched in ludic terms. Nevertheless, there is something indubitably refreshing about the carnival, and this resides, ultimately, with its status as a discursive challenge to ideologies that thrive on the valorization of sealed systems of belief and conclusive outcomes. By contrast, the carnival celebrates becoming, renewal and ongoing metamorphosis, thereby shunning any crystallized notion of finitude or immutability. Grotesque imagery consistently reinforces this disruptive thrust by mocking the authority of balanced, polished and rational forms of expression and performance through the foregrounding of visual signifiers of both physical and psychological dislocation.
After watching two series with a fairly realistic aesthetic and presentation (think Grave of Fireflies), I still can't help but think that the distortions, grotesqueries, and "accents" of classic anime emotional expression are somehow very important to its project or utility. So although Anohana and Haibane Renmai are recommended to people unfamiliar with anime, Trigun is where you would learn what anime is about. And fuck Miyazaki.
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Trigun is where you would learn what anime is about
Love and peace?
Who was the younger version of Hillary Clinton singing God Save the Queen My Country's Tired of Me?
18: That would be original American Idol Kelly Clarkson.
Thanks. That would explain my total ignorance. A nice democratic gesture, I suppose.
I had to google to be sure as I didn't get to watch, but I figured there had to be some reason she was on the podium. I suppose one reason is that she got more votes than anyone else up there ever has or something like that.