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Petesophizing...

Theater, Books, Opinion, Milwaukee

The Best Of A Genre 2 (imported from my Hamlet blog)

Thursday, March 27, 2008


There once was a cop from Milwaukee
Who said in his Walkie McTalkie
I pissed at my best
But I can't pass the test
So I spluged a big load in my Jockeys

Drew/Claudius's multiple variations after this initial effort were sidesplitting, and uncapturable. But I do remember his credo:
I don't play chicken with cocks.
There's something in the air at Trocadero. Or maybe it's the booze.
posted by Petey, 4:31 PM | link | 0 comments |

Combining Two Things We Love (imported from my Hamlet blog)

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Combining two things we love, wine (with cheese) and figurative language...Gary Vaynerchuk describing a bottle of red wine, the 2004 Razon Valascro:
hit a deer on the road...let it fall down....throw a bunch of cherries on it...take out your knife that you always have on you....cut the deer....bite it....that's the flavor profile
posted by Petey, 1:40 PM | link | 1 comments |

Stand And Deliver (imported from my Hamlet blog)

The power to move people...a guy who'd never been paid to sing before--Paul Potts--on last year's Britain's Got Talent.
posted by Petey, 1:31 PM | link | 1 comments |

Mamet: Take Away The Director And What Do You Get? (imported from my Hamlet blog)

Saturday, March 15, 2008

In an essay entitled David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' in this week's Village Voice Mamet has written of his switch from big government liberalism to a free-market/civil libertarian outlook. To explain, he draws on his experience--in the play rehearsal process.
But if the government is not to intervene, how will we, mere human beings, work it all out?

I wondered and read, and it occurred to me that I knew the answer, and here it is: We just seem to. How do I know? From experience. I referred to my own—take away the director from the staged play and what do you get? Usually a diminution of strife, a shorter rehearsal period, and a better production.

The director, generally, does not cause strife, but his or her presence impels the actors to direct (and manufacture) claims designed to appeal to Authority—that is, to set aside the original goal (staging a play for the audience) and indulge in politics, the purpose of which may be to gain status and influence outside the ostensible goal of the endeavor.

Photo: To understand BRott, is it necessary to know he was Aquaman at Great America in Gurnee?
posted by Petey, 5:58 PM | link | 0 comments |

Hypocracy in Fiction

Thursday, March 13, 2008

This radio story mentions the hypocracy in some of Shakespeare's characters, along with some other characters in fiction.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88140102&title=We+We+Can+Learn+from+Hypocrisy+in+Literature

Ties these characters in to modern political hypocracy.
posted by Petey, 6:52 PM | link | 2 comments |