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re: I Think It's Fine

Posted by:	Ann 10:09 am EDT 08/17/14
In reply to:	I Think It's Fine - enoch10 11:43 pm EDT 08/16/14

I agree that it's fine, though not great, mostly because of the red (I like a Parade logo to reflect the time period - I particularly like the one with the U.S. flag stars and the Confederate flag stars). I also think the hanging is the shadow that is cast over the whole story (and has been a visible shadow in the productions I have seen - if you knew by history the story, it was more than just a tree). He's not just sentenced to hang, but it was more of a lynching and the story follows the details of what led up to that. That said, being this week, it happens to be poor timing, though the public forgets quickly (and I don't think the "special little snowflake" applies here, but it certainly happens).

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re: I Think It's Fine

Posted by:	enoch10 01:08 pm EDT 08/17/14
In reply to:	re: I Think It's Fine - Ann 10:09 am EDT 08/17/14

no, the special little snowflake was an extension of the conversation as i acknowledged. nor was i really responding to the op. i'm just seeing a real fear or reluctance - a timidity - all well intentioned but, i think, creatively neutering. all this trigger warning crap - again, well intentioned - flies in the face of the outrageous, the irreverent, and the joyously offensive. in other words the kind of art i like. the special little snowflakes need to grow a pair. how's that for a mixed metaphor? it's such an odd way to be old and cranky. the old should be criticizing the young for carrying things too far, not for being too timid. somehow my post managed to conflate all that extrapolating it out of ... pretty much nowhere.

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