IHey, the smartest thing I learned in grad school was this
semi-drunken fat
(deleted) teaching modern (deleted) telling the class one day
that American Pop Culture was traditional middle-class values
on trial in a carnival atmosphere. Anna Nicole is getting the
full-court press right now. Trailer trash with bit soft
pillowy ... boobs. Peroxide blonde, of course. (Is she buried
yet? Are you sure she's dead?)
OJ was classic, of course. Star black footballer turned
"actor" married bottle blonde with soft pillowy (deleted) and
then kills her and her
"friend."
We rara-avians write & read pop genre. That's our arena.
"Arena" translates as "blood and sand," which comes from
bullfights and gladiators. So...Pop fiction is pop
culture.
The following, for example, is just downright creepy...
NY Times February 22, 2007 World Briefing | Americas
Colombia: Gunman Kills 2 Performing Clowns By SIMON ROMERO An
unknown gunman killed two circus clowns in Cú£µ´¡, on the border
with Venezuela, before a crowd of about 20 children and
adults. The traveling circus had been performing for more
than a week. The shootings, which follow the killing of
another clown in Cú£µ´¡ last year, drew attention even in a
country hardened by one of the world's highest homicide rates
because it took place in front of children.
Man, that can be a noir novel in the time I snap my
fingers.
Okay, let's look around. Britney's bald and in rehab. (Or has
she left again?) The astronaut's in diapers but wasn't hit
with attempted murder.
(IMHO) Anna N. was murdered but she got buried after
all.
And last week I saw in the newspapers...
ABC announced the cast for the fourth season of its mega hit
"Dancing With the Stars" on Wednesday, and if you thought it
couldn't get any more interesting than Emmitt Smith and Jerry
Springer, you were very, very wrong.
The new season returns March 19 with a two-hour performance
special that will pit Heather Mills, the estranged wife of
Paul McCartney and the first contestant to compete with an
artificial limb, against Laila Ali, the world champion boxer
and daughter of Muhammad Ali.
Yeah!!! The one-legged Beatle divorcee up against Cssius
Clay's boxing daughter? Life doesn't get better than
that!
I (heart) Genre.
But what bumps genre up into literature?
Compassion. Yes, that may be indefensible.
Which means later this week I will more about it.
Best to all
Fred Zackel Cocaine & Blue Eyes Point Blank Press
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