Busytown: Less is more
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Spike H is a genius.
But in terms of G & S, I can't but think "Poor Wandering One" from Pirates of Penzance might be a good one to use here. -
But in terms of G & S, I can't but think "Poor Wandering One" from Pirates of Penzance might be a good one to use here.
You can't beat a Cole Porter tune. Anything Goes, methinks?
In olden days a hint of hocking
Was looked on as something shocking,
But now, God knows,
Anything Goes.Good authors too who once knew lots of words,
Now only use other’s words
Writing prose,
Anything Goes.The novel’s gone mad today,
The prose bad today,
The print light today,
No paying for rights today,
When most scribes today
That critics prize today
Are just silly gigolos.
And though I'm not the best of editors,
And a really shit proof-reader,
When you propose,
Anything goesIf driving Jolisa spare you like,
If waspish wit you like,
If old texts you like,
If persiflage you like,
If smarmy cheats you like
Well undressed you like,
Why, nobody will oppose!
And though I've got no clever answers
to po-mo post-colonial
Folderol,
Anything goes! -
O dear heaven Craig! Instead of my usual nice bed-time fare (normally The Trout or gentler Mozart) I'm doomed to "Anything goes'! WITH YOUR WORDS!
They'll even get into WallE...
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O dear heaven Craig! Instead of my usual nice bed-time fare (normally The Trout or gentler Mozart) I'm doomed to "Anything goes'! WITH YOUR WORDS!
Ear-worming strangers. A modest talent, but you work with what you've got!
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Ear-worming strangers.
Am trying to think of a way of working Joe Orton into the conversation. On second thoughts, best not.
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Let's say you've replaced the word "hello" with the word "sheep". This will likely result in a grammatically incorrect novel.
Stoppard made that work somehow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogg's_Hamlet,_Cahoot's_Macbeth
I highly recommend the 15 minute Hamlet if you get the chance.
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Am trying to think of a way of working Joe Orton into the conversation. On second thoughts, best not.
Yes, I for one am glad you chose that course of action Jolisa.
It looks like there is going to be a Your Views on whether "Ihimaera should keep his job" on the Herald as soon as they fill their customary quota of braindead racists.
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Yes, I for one am glad you chose that course of action Jolisa.
Very much a case of "don't go there."
It looks like there is going to be a Your Views on whether "Ihimaera should keep his job" on the Herald as soon as they fill their customary quota of braindead racists.
Gaaah. So not wanting to go there, either.
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Gaaah. So not wanting to go there, either.
Indeed -- let's not hand Ihimaera and his enablers a whole deck of racist cards to deal out as a distraction from his literary kleptomania. Hone Harawira and the whole MTS Rugby World Cup rights fiasco had filled up that bullshit bingo card for the foreseeable future.
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