Tuesday morning musings.
Ashley MacIsaac wants to run for the leadership of the Liberal party. This may not add any credibility to the race but it will certainly add entertainment.
Fulford has an interesting article about the significance of Seinfeld. Turns out it was about more than nothing.
Ethics commissioner Bernard Shapiro has cleared PM Stephen Harper of any wrongdoing in David Emerson's floor crossing. My question is why was it even investigated? Well actually, my problem isn't that this was looked into, as it is unethical to offer a minister appointment for someone to cross the floor. My problem is that Martin did the same thing with Belinda and it was not investigated.
Remember when Celtics-Lakers games were the biggest deal in sports?
I think the World Baseball Classic should be considered a success. The idea was to expand the game globally, not in North America, and having Japan beat Cuba in the final most certainly did that. The fact that the US will be looking to win it next time should help it a lot in '09. But they really should move it to November instead of spring training.
Why?
posted by Skeelo @ 10:28 AM
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After reading this, I unfortunately Googled the article "It'll Always be Burma to Me" and the author actually compared Seinfeld to Heart of Darkness. Here's an example of why the arts and social sciences are in dire need of a colonic treatment:
"Marked by the image of a map of Myanmar and a riff of Oriental-sounding music, Elaine’s trip to find Peterman exemplifies the complex ideological work performed by Seinfeld’s parody of J. Peterman’s imperialism. The Seinfeld writers’ choice of Myanmar as the site of Peterman’s Heart of Darkness is most likely related to its relatively low-profile status in contemporary American discourses of post-colonialism, both academic and popular. Yet Peterman’s statement that "It’ll always be Burma to me" and Kramer’s failure to recognize the name Myanmar allude to a painful history of British colonialism and nationalist, religious, ethnic, and economic struggle."
That's hilarious. Academics can even turn Seinfeld into a symbol for tyranny. I'm sure that's exactly what Jerry and Larry David had in mind.
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