R: [acornlive] Back From Babylon
Christopher Neenan (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Sun, 28 May 2000 10:24:53 +0200
Liam here's a contribution to your Babylon visions
A Reading in Babylon
I was really going handsome
poetry-pleading to The
Babylon Coiffeur Ladies
For the Coiffeur Ladies Dinner
delightedly
when Behold! something agonizable!
They all snapped
Baalochs!
We're out of here!
We've figured you and
all your hairy panting out
We'll coiff for you your hairlocks
Then the twin pillars
of coffee and cookies
caved in
And took the eyes out
of me
Then they left
with eyes, coffee and cookies
leaving me eyeless and glazing on my pictures.
----- Original Message -----
From: Liam Ronan <liamronan@esatclear.ie>
To: <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [acornlive] Back From Babylon
> Thanks, Marc. May the Cubs win the pennant. I will have a look at the
> article.
> Liam
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Goldin" <mgoldin@core.com>
> To: <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 11:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [acornlive] Back From Babylon
>
>
> > At 02:12 PM 5/27/00 +0100, you wrote:
> > >I do understand that. Honestly I do. America was built on hustle as
much
> as
> > >hucksterism. However, it strikes me that commercial manipulation of the
> > >general public in the States crosses the line and has become markedly
> > >Pavlovian or Skinnerian or whatever. Humming the background tune of
one's
> > >favorite TV advertisement while on the way to buy "gotta have" brand
> jeans,
> > >trainers, etc. is...well...some evidence for brain washing. As I said,
it
> is
> > >merely my opinion, but I still insist that there are light years of
> > >difference between straightforward advertising of a product and
> > >psychologically manipulating the audience to install a virtual craving
> for
> > >the thing.
> > >Regards,
> > >Liam
> >
> > Hi Liam,
> > Well put. Though born and raised in the States, I have to agree
> with
> > you. Still love the place, warts and all, but have no illusions. Was
> > fortunate to have come up in Chicago, which outside of Boston and New
> York,
> > has got to be one of the most heavily Irish of U.S towns. This was where
> > Chief Francis O'Neill settled, for all love, so you know the Irish music
> > here is the "real thing". This actually leads to another point. I posted
> an
> > article, a few weeks ago, from the Irish Times, discussing the Irish and
> > American cultural swap. Fairly well thought out and made me realize that
> > like it or not, the two cultures are hopelessly enmeshed. Give it a
read.
> >
> >
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0511/fea3.htm
> >
> > Good slant on the States, on your part, and I have to
admit
> > that I'd like to get funded to study over there for awhile.
> >
> >
Best,
> >
> > Marc
> > Goldin
> >
> >
> > *==================*==================*
> > Acorn Live Literary Mailing list
> > The Dublin Writers' Workshop
> > ***
> > For list issues, contact: listmaster@dublinwriters.org
> > To unsubscribe use the form at:
> > http://www.dublinwriters.org/acornlive/
> >
>
>
>
> *==================*==================*
> Acorn Live Literary Mailing list
> The Dublin Writers' Workshop
> ***
> For list issues, contact: listmaster@dublinwriters.org
> To unsubscribe use the form at:
> http://www.dublinwriters.org/acornlive/
*==================*==================*
Acorn Live Literary Mailing list
The Dublin Writers' Workshop
***
For list issues, contact: listmaster@dublinwriters.org
To unsubscribe use the form at:
http://www.dublinwriters.org/acornlive/