The fact that there is a project in Oregon set to translate all of Shakespeare into contemporary English only shows me my laments about the state of literacy have been valid–yet I do not object entirely to modernizations. I do object, though, that we pretend that Shakespeare is unintelligible without translation, which is grossly untrue. […]

Yashujiro Ozu [an extension of my more monologic imaginative interplay with experience]

I despise the notion of authenticity, especially in the ways it has been used, been corrupted, been manipulated, managed, marketed in marketing and not anything like an organic marketplace. The most Japanese director? What kind of question is that? I do not know what that question, or any question similar to it, means. What could it […]

Re-contextualization; or, Clutching at Cliche Constructed Straws

X: Stop telling me I’m fighting backwards because I critique the boobery of our contemporaneity . You are contempo-centric to a fault. Y: But you do fight backwards. Every single day you lament the state of things as they are against what they were and should have become but have not, you fight […]

A Fool’s Errand [to be added to the collection of pieces that amount to The Life and Opinions of Thomas Sarebbononnato]

A man not so much unlike another man I met when I was only a little younger than I am today, as if this day were not so unlike any other day in my life, each day of my life . . . what is it that I think I want to say about something […]

Costuming

Ocasio-Cortez is another mask the Power and the Money will wear to keep its Machiavellian schemes on track. Socialist? Please! And I am not herein going to enter an exchange of diatribes as Americans love to do because they really do not love to think, having reduced mind to brain functions, reason and passion to […]

Ocasio, Ocasio, Wherefore art thou a Continued Supporter of the Monied Elite

Any member of an imagined American Jacobin Party would find Congressperson Ocasio-Cortez only a diverse exemplar of the status quo, a multiculti offer to keeping things the same for the Power and Money Elite. Congressperson Ocasio-Cortez is only going to help the Power and the Monied elite because she will only attack middle income as […]

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