tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6736579219239485254..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Blow-Up (Must be Russians)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25685100347087501662017-03-02T21:01:07.234-08:002017-03-02T21:01:07.234-08:00kent,
Erm... no, they did not.
And oy, what a bi...kent,<br /><br />Erm... no, they did not.<br /><br />And oy, what a bill, and such a shindig! To be missing it, what can one say -- the next thing worse than, or should I say first thing preferable to, actual death itself, for which one would yearn with even greater ardour than at present, were such a feat possible, were one to be attending.<br /><br />Not to be throwing shade at the illustrious cast, but can't help wondering how many of them would be able to stand atop a wobbly ladder in mid-January and serenade the girls' dorm with melodious strains of Hail To The Victors Valiant? Or even know the words! <br /><br />Knowing full well they'll throw their panties out the window anyway... <br /><br />And to be honest, no offense but, I'm like Huh? Laurie Kitschy-Itchy? Who? <br /><br />And dem be like TC? Who dat??<br /><br />Hilton,<br /><br />OK, we all know it for sure by now, there will never be any eluding the radiant horror of Orangeworld, escape is impossible... and yes there they are again! Pesky buggers! Right up at the top, in their terrible wing'd conveyance, blocking out th'aggriev'd heavens, not permitting us to forget for so much as a moment that golden showers will always and henceforth remain our common entitlement. <br /><br />A poem on that issue, though I suppose it could equally apply to the heroic derring-do of our Navy SEALS:<br /><br />Us? Ever forget?<br />Nyet! Nyet!<br /><br />Sarah P was right. She could see all this shaping up, through her penetrative sniperscope, from the elk-hunt helicopter, hovering there over lovely Wasilla, hard by the Bering Straits, back in The Day, as she confided to the Fake Russians, when they rang her up, impersonated by a French radio talkshow, as you will recall.<br /><br />Little did she know they were, yes, Yemenis. Devious lot they are, as we now know. Always pretending to be bleeding, maimed, mutilated, decapitated by some weapon manufactured in Huntsville, Alabama! On their wedding day! Meant as a gift! Ingrates!! <br /><br />A poem on that:<br /><br />Little did we know<br />What we did not know.<br /><br />An incident well worth memorializing, I would contend.<br /><br />That was before one of her Clan stepped on the dog however. O fateful trodding-down of man's best friend! Seven millennia of bad luck for using a pet as a doorstep. Woe to the Muricans!<br /><br />Gotta love those Anglo Saxon metrics BTW. <br /><br />A Brutalist Ur-prosody. Nothing less than what the "age demands"!<br /><br />No hemistich wasted!<br /><br />It's sad! It's deep! It's tremendous! You're gonna love it!!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43293594919725141782017-03-02T11:38:43.103-08:002017-03-02T11:38:43.103-08:00An even stranger dream than usual. With not a sing...An even stranger dream than usual. With not a single image of the Orange Schmuck.<br /><br />HiltonHiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04497545378045907642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33259060164571606222017-03-02T11:21:30.052-08:002017-03-02T11:21:30.052-08:00TC, Speaking of blow-ups, did they contact you? I&...TC, Speaking of blow-ups, did they contact you? I'd just like to know...k<br /><br />University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Bicentennial Theme Semester Event: You Are Invited<br /><br />The LSA Department of English Language and Literature and<br />Dean Andrew D. Martin invite you to<br /><br />Poets at Michigan, Then and Now<br />A Symposium<br /><br />April 7, 2017<br /><br />Rogel Ballroom | Michigan Union<br /><br />--<br /><br />10:00–11:30 a.m.<br /><br />Robert Frost, the Hopwood Awards, and the History of Poetry at Michigan<br />Panelists: Nicholas Delbanco, Paul Dimond, Donald Sheehy<br /><br />--<br /><br />1:00–2:30 p.m.<br /><br />The Middle Years<br />Panelists: Laurence Goldstein, X.J. Kennedy, Thomas Lynch<br /><br />--<br /><br />2:30–4:00 p.m.<br /><br />The Art Continues: Contemporary Michigan Poets<br />Panelists: Tarfia Faizullah, Vievee Francis, Laura Kasischke<br /><br />Part of the University of Michigan Bicentennial celebration.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77278265264448510622017-03-02T07:54:08.794-08:002017-03-02T07:54:08.794-08:00Well, the plane, and very likely the photographica...Well, the plane, and very likely the photographically-inclined beach tourists as well, are Russian. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q62gRiUrylw" rel="nofollow">Blowing Up the Photographs (scene from Blow-Up)</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ywa6qeYJAg" rel="nofollow">"I'm a photographer." "But this is a public place."</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R9r9QQ56VY" rel="nofollow">Blow-Up (1966) - 1</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wSvXuSE8Gg&t=13s" rel="nofollow">Antonioni: Blow-Up (1966): POV fallacy</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcWXAf6W71U" rel="nofollow">Blow-Up (1966) -- the ending</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjKxVKXuTVc" rel="nofollow">Bergman speaks about Antonioni</a><br />TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com