progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
January 22, 2012 2 Comments
It’s probably been more than twenty-five years since I read The Star-Spangled Girl. It’s a good candidate for Neil Simon’s weakest play, but there’s a joke in it that I’ve remembered all this time and enjoyed thinking about frequently.
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December 18, 2011 2 Comments
Vaclav Havel has passed away at the age of 75. Here’s the BBC obituary.
Havel was a playwright and, at the start of his writing career, he was a very funny playwright. Plays like The Memorandum were aimed at the Communist bureaucracy but would transfer just as easily to the Office-like idiocies of Capitalist companies. Or The Garden Party, where a clerk tells his progress-obsessed boss that he’s just read Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, to which the enthusiastic boss replies “Soon we’ll be able to read at even greater depths!”
