Comments on: That Parody Which Is Not One

By: Tony Patti

Tony Patti — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I like that picture. It’s a little moment of magic. It always makes me happy to think that you have a little niece about the same age as my little girl. So any tiny flashes of joy you feel can mirror mine!

But I would rather throw myself off Eads Bridge than forgo any of your cynical anti-children wisecracks. They are necessary adjuncts to the lifestyle of the spinster aunt!

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Is it OK with you, Twisty, if I just start formally worshiping you from this point on?

The funniest thing: he could have defended his dongitude just by doing proper citation, to wit: “Social Text #46/47, pp. 217-252 (spring/summer 1996).”

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

The funniest thing: he could have defended his dongitude just by doing proper citation, to wit: “Social Text #46/47, pp. 217-252 (spring/summer 1996).”

Ha!

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Yeah Tony, it was pretty funny, because I was teachin the kid how to shake her moneymaker to KC and the Sunshine Band and she was wearing that hilarious pink tutu in that hilarious overstuffed nursery. Whenever I sat down, which was frequently, since I’m old, she’d yell “Jill! Shake your booty!”

I’m not anti-kid, though. I’m anti-reproduction. I consider the difference significant.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I confess, O Twisty one, that I have wondered at times in the past if you were writing parody.

But I have since come to the conclusion that you’re not, except for those times when you are. So, now that’s all cleared up, right?

On a parenthetical note, I have noticed during my long career as a cover-band musician that lots of little kids seem to dig KC and the Sunshine Band, or even approximate renditions of his tunes performed by surly, semi-intoxicated musicians who’d probably rather be playing something else. Not that suprising, though, since his tunes are simple, memorable and you can dance to ‘em.

Ol’ KC ought to cut himself a full-fledged children’s album; I would think the hours playing for the tykes would have to be much better than the casino-and-state-fair circuit he’s currently traveling.

By: jc.

jc. — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

WhatÂ´s the complaint? WE live in the time where life imitates parody. The elections are a parody, the president and his reich are a parody, their war against terrorism is a fantastic parody of competence and meaning, religious leaders are parodies of wise men and their followers live lives that are parodies of morality and meaning, democracy in the middle east is a parody of reality and lets face it most of us are living parodies of real life. Accusing something of being a parody is praise because parody succeeds and dominates the power structure of the world.So by that measuring stick maybe feminist bloggers are poised to take over the patriarchy. Congratulations.

Ps. As a father of 2 I find that I can`t look at any child without thinking “Condoms.”

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Well, strictly speaking, JC, what you are describing above is travesty, but I grasp your gist.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

My, oh my. I’ve been finding parodies all over the place. Usually conservative blogs.

By: John M. Burt

John M. Burt — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking for awhile that I’m trapped in the periphery of a parody. Specifically, a parody of Republican attempts to bring down Bill Clinton, which are being wittily parodied in right-wing efforts to bring down Ugo Chaves.

Everything is exaggerated for comic effect, thus impeachment turns into a coup attempt, and Evangelical verbal abuse turns into calls for assassination, &c.

I’m just glad I’m on the periphery of the story and not, say, the novel’s stand-in for Monica.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Nice one, John M. Burt.