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Wednesday, March 12. 2014

We need big government for...poetry?

Governing for Poetry  - Can nothing be done without the public fisc?


It's a hobby, for heaven's sake, just like posting at Maggie's. For whom did Shakespeare write his sonnets?

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:11 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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How else is Maya Angelou going to be a headliner?
#1 indyjonesouthere on 2014-03-12 13:44 (Reply)
Speaking of Maya, I know why the caged bird sings: seems there are hemp seeds in the bird food.

There's a town in Oregon with a Fisher Poets Festival (weekend), not getting a gummint grant.
#2 Sam L. on 2014-03-12 14:46 (Reply)
Ah, but you see hippy poetry is not a dying art...unfortunately.
#2.1 JKB on 2014-03-12 14:58 (Reply)
Ain't no hippies out on the fishing boats--that's hard work! Listeners; well, likely.
#2.1.1 Sam L. on 2014-03-12 19:52 (Reply)
Well, I looked that festival up. The top financial/facilities supporter is a community college. Last time I looked, community colleges were government funded.
#2.1.1.1 JKB on 2014-03-12 23:49 (Reply)
You realize this isn't about the poetry, right? It's about the people who want to feel good about supporting the "arts"....with your money, Philistine.

BTW, is calling someone a Philistine to imply they are uncultured, being Semitic?
#3 JKB on 2014-03-12 14:56 (Reply)
You didn't get your check from Bird Dog this month?
#4 Bulldog on 2014-03-12 15:50 (Reply)
Ah, The Angelou, author of the garbled and barely literate 'I know why the Caged Bird Sings' and other dreck. (Yes, I read all that drivel in my youthful need to feel a part of the intelligentsia. But soon I grew a few more brain cells and saw the nakedness of the empress of prattle.)

Too stupid to realize she has no talent, pumped up with pretensions to aristocracy spoon fed by the chortling sycophantic 'masses' who are delighted to find 'a person of color' who can be held up as a shining star... of what, exactly? Mediocrity? Less than Mediocrity? Someone else said "she bored the entire nation or at least those who bothered to watch 'The One's' inauguration... There should be a class action suit to recover time lost".

But what would I know about poetry/literature or the 'arts'. So I should just shut up and pay my taxes to support The Machine which produces such marvels.

But before I go, here is a quote that seems apropos:

“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!” -Robert Heinlein
#5 Texas Tea on 2014-03-13 14:02 (Reply)

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