"The hallmark of political and media establishments is to depict meaningful dissent from its orthodoxies as a form of mental illness, and conversely, acceptance of (or at least acquiescence to) its orthodoxies as a requirement for mental health (even when, as is true now, its orthodoxies are themselves warped and ill)."
This kind of get-right-with-us behavior also makes sense in the context of poetry/literary communities.
Glenn Greenwald's full column about Manning, the NEW YORK profile and a miltary vet defending Manning can be found here: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07/11/manning/index.html
Monday, July 11, 2011
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Here's the Piers Morgan Americans don't experience on CNN.
The quote below is from former UK newspaperperson Piers Morgan's Twitter feed--expressing Morgan's feelings about Hugh Grant (who was a victim of the celebrity phone hacking scandal in the UK--along with actress Sienna Miller) and Grant's appearance on the BBC show QUESTION TIME (presumably discussing how the phone hacking of celebrities, 7/7/05 terror victims and those concerned in the case of a murdered young woman brought an abrupt end to Rupert Murdoch's tabloid NEWS OF THE WORLD):
"You don't have to have any sympathy for the News of the World to think Hugh Grant's being a screechy, sanctimonious little prick."
"You don't have to have any sympathy for the News of the World to think Hugh Grant's being a screechy, sanctimonious little prick."
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Frank Rich on Obama hearting Wall Street/Big Business.
http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/obama-economy/presidents-failure/
Certainly an article worth reading, though Rich loses his original thesis part of the way through to cheerlead for Obama's re-election by a voluminous recounting of the myriad sins of Mitt Romney, who's probably the most obvious used-car salesman of a Presidential candidate since John Edwards (who may have actually believed in a few of the populist notions he espoused).
Certainly an article worth reading, though Rich loses his original thesis part of the way through to cheerlead for Obama's re-election by a voluminous recounting of the myriad sins of Mitt Romney, who's probably the most obvious used-car salesman of a Presidential candidate since John Edwards (who may have actually believed in a few of the populist notions he espoused).
Monday, July 4, 2011
A poet's bio of me.
Will be co-featuring at Alex Frankel's Second Sunday reading in Pasadena on Sunday, July 10th at 5:00 p.m.
Here's a link to Alex's take on me:
http://www.secondsundaypoetry.com/terry-mccarty.html
One addendum to the above: I'm only 86ed from one venue. Otherwise, everything's copacetic.
Here's a link to Alex's take on me:
http://www.secondsundaypoetry.com/terry-mccarty.html
One addendum to the above: I'm only 86ed from one venue. Otherwise, everything's copacetic.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
I can feel Kevin Smith's pain.
From Kevin Smith's SILENT BOB SPEAKS blog (http://www.silentbobspeaks.com), here's a primal scream worthy of John Lennon's PLASTIC ONO BAND album--and one I can empathize with:
"For years, cats like cranky ol’ Mr. “GET OFF MY FRIEND HOLLYWOOD’S LAWN!” would write shit that diminished me as a filmmaker because I didn’t fit into their limited definition of what a filmmaker is. I believed that shit for nearly twenty years. But I’m a grownup now – which means I’ve realized that no jackass who doesn’t do what I do for a living can ever tell me I’m bad at my art. That’s some backwards-ass bullshit right there: s’like a priest giving marital advice to newlyweds. If you don’t ever fuck, there’s no way anything you say about fucking is relevant to the discussion. No artist will ever tell another artist “You failed.” There is no failure in art, because art – like beauty – is in the eye of the beholder. No audience is a Borg collective: show 100 people the same movie and they’ll have 100 totally different experiences and reactions, far more diverse and interesting than a thumb pointing this way or that. So when the cranks get to screeching about how I’m doing it all wrong, or badly, or in some way other than I should? I know I’m on the right fucking track. When EW [presuming he refers to ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY] writes you off as a loon, that’s a badge of honor. Why be like everyone else when you can be bold and stand apart? Good or bad, be remembered for doing it your way."
"For years, cats like cranky ol’ Mr. “GET OFF MY FRIEND HOLLYWOOD’S LAWN!” would write shit that diminished me as a filmmaker because I didn’t fit into their limited definition of what a filmmaker is. I believed that shit for nearly twenty years. But I’m a grownup now – which means I’ve realized that no jackass who doesn’t do what I do for a living can ever tell me I’m bad at my art. That’s some backwards-ass bullshit right there: s’like a priest giving marital advice to newlyweds. If you don’t ever fuck, there’s no way anything you say about fucking is relevant to the discussion. No artist will ever tell another artist “You failed.” There is no failure in art, because art – like beauty – is in the eye of the beholder. No audience is a Borg collective: show 100 people the same movie and they’ll have 100 totally different experiences and reactions, far more diverse and interesting than a thumb pointing this way or that. So when the cranks get to screeching about how I’m doing it all wrong, or badly, or in some way other than I should? I know I’m on the right fucking track. When EW [presuming he refers to ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY] writes you off as a loon, that’s a badge of honor. Why be like everyone else when you can be bold and stand apart? Good or bad, be remembered for doing it your way."
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