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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: JonFromMaplewood on December 18, 2009, 03:03:06 PM
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Dear FOT,
My wife surprised me with two tickets to see Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" when they tape here in NYC tomorrow night at Town Hall. I heard the podcast of Tom's rant about Keillor mere hours after hearing about my gift. Ew buoy. Now I am one of the mutants who goes to see him live!
I will report back.
-Jon
P.S. Why, you might ask, did my wife get me this gift, given that we are not octogenarians? It had more to do with a sketch she and I performed on my now defunct podcast, in which I played Garrison Keillor and she played Laurie Anderson. The situation was that we were on a blind date and both spoke at about one mile per hour, driving the Applebee's waiter insane.
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P.S. Why, you might ask, did my wife get me this gift, given that we are not octogenarians? It had more to do with a sketch she and I performed on my now defunct podcast, in which I played Garrison Keillor and she played Laurie Anderson. The situation was that we were on a blind date and both spoke at about one mile per hour, driving the Applebee's waiter insane.
So you're going ironically!
Funny bit btw ... like an updated version of Bob & Ray's Slow Talkers of America.
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OH SHIT.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor16dec16,0,225627.story (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor16dec16,0,225627.story)
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OH SHIT.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor16dec16,0,225627.story (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor16dec16,0,225627.story)
Well, I'm sure that will blow over.
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OH SHIT.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor16dec16,0,225627.story (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor16dec16,0,225627.story)
"I've just come from Cambridge, that beehive of brilliance, where nerds don't feel self-conscious..."
Now I know how everyone from New Jersey feels about that MTV Jersey Shore show.
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Forget that part! Did you read further? To the part about Unitarians and Jews impinging on the celebration of his Messiahs birth? Get bent, Garrison. WE'RE NO LONGER GOING TONIGHT.
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Forget that part! Did you read further? To the part about Unitarians and Jews impinging on the celebration of his Messiahs birth? Get bent, Garrison. WE'RE NO LONGER GOING TONIGHT.
Whoa Jon. You can go and boo his comments. If you get the heave ho ask for your money back.
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Forget that part! Did you read further? To the part about Unitarians and Jews impinging on the celebration of his Messiahs birth? Get bent, Garrison. WE'RE NO LONGER GOING TONIGHT.
Whoa Jon. You can go and boo his comments. If you get the heave ho ask for you money back.
Even better, you can go in there pretending to be crazed, rabid superfans ... shouting out requests for favorite bits and generally being disruptive while pretending to be supportive.
(Although I guess that wouldn't be very nice to all the octogenarians trying to have a nice evening out).
And you can heartily congratulate him for joining Bill O'Reilly in the brave counterbattle against the "war on christmas".
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And you can heartily congratulate him for joining Bill O'Reilly in the brave counterbattle against the "war on christmas".
Hear hear. I request you do the above. You already have tickets.
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I support Jon's decision not to go.
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I support Jon's decision not to go.
Then Keillor wins. Gets money; no harassment. That is not justice.
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Return the tix with a letter as to why you aren't going - copy letter and send to the EIC at the paper. (although it is a syndicated column that the Sun just carries, but still)
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I don't get why he'd do something like that, he's always been one of my favorites, a guy who sticks with the traditional stuff with out being political about it or a religious nut. He did the old timey, hymn singing thing with class so it's unfortunate that he'd have to write something like that. I haven't listened to his radio broadcast in a few years though so maybe he's changed.
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I've gotten mad at something written Garrison Keillor before and been informed I'm simply missing his hilarious sarcasm- but this doesn't seem to fall into that category.
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Man, you guys are so easy to offend.
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Man, you guys are so easy to offend.
You are not a Jewish/Unitarian.
Obviously.
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I am a cracker, Fredericks. You, of all people, should know the pain I have suffered at the hands of ignorant sophisticates.
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I am a cracker, Fredericks. You, of all people, should know the pain I have suffered at the hands of ignorant sophisticates.
Media Squat?
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I kinda hate Keillor for all the obvious reasons. But I read the article and it seems like satire, no? Isn't he apeing the "war on christmas" argument? Like a Colbert Report kind of thing?
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No opinion piece, however awful, could ever, ever, EVER amount to even one percent of the damage done by his horrible voice. Clear your throat, you repulsive loser.
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No opinion piece, however awful, could ever, ever, EVER amount to even one percent of the damage done by his horrible voice. Clear your throat, you repulsive loser.
UaaaaAAaaaHHH HUUUrphhT
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You know, in the end, I did not even feel like the comment was anti-semitic or anti-Unitarian, even though I am Jewish. I just felt it was seriously unpleasant without any comedy to justify its existence. A less-appaling Michael Richards event.
We were going with our tongues planted in our cheeks a little bit, with the hope that maybe we'd be won over by it. But it was no longer worth that effort after reading that.
And by the way, who alerted me to Keillor's rant? None other than Tom Scharpling when I tweeted that I was going. My wife and I have him to thank for seeing Avatar last night instead. My thinking was: What is the most opposite thing we can see from Prairie Home Companion.
Someone please find unobtanium under Lake Wobegon...
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You know, in the end, I did not even feel like the comment was anti-semitic or anti-Unitarian, even though I am Jewish. I just felt it was seriously unpleasant without any comedy to justify its existence. A less-appaling Michael Richards event.
I think you've summed it up well, yeah... his twee "reportage" wasn't quite my thing, but he was harmless enough. Somewhere along the way though it's like he went deep into Andy Rooney territory (Rooney's had his fair share of verbal gaffes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Rooney#Racial_remarks) too).
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I kinda hate Keillor for all the obvious reasons. But I read the article and it seems like satire, no? Isn't he apeing the "war on christmas" argument? Like a Colbert Report kind of thing?
This was what I thought, but gave up on trying to make the case without people thinking I am racist. I too thought it was Swiftian in intent, if not execution. It's sort of like if I got outraged during my early calls when Tom suggested I, and everyone in my region, was in the KKK. And of course, only 60% of us are.
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I kinda hate Keillor for all the obvious reasons. But I read the article and it seems like satire, no? Isn't he apeing the "war on christmas" argument? Like a Colbert Report kind of thing?
if this were so, it's hard to tell since this isn't his MO usually, if ever. Colbert's whole thing is one long piss take on the lunkheaded conservative pundit.
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I LOL'ed at this part!
"If you are the World's Leading Authority on the mating habits of the jabberwock beetle of the Lesser Jujube Archipelago, you can take comfort in knowing that the pinch-faced drone next to you at Starbucks may be the W.L.A. on 17th-century Huguenot hymnody or a niche of quantum physics that is understood by nobody but himself."
Wait, what does LOL stand for again?
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I LOL'ed at this part!
"If you are the World's Leading Authority on the mating habits of the jabberwock beetle of the Lesser Jujube Archipelago, you can take comfort in knowing that the pinch-faced drone next to you at Starbucks may be the W.L.A. on 17th-century Huguenot hymnody or a niche of quantum physics that is understood by nobody but himself."
Wait, what does LOL stand for again?
Which is ironic, since he hosts a live radio variety show that frequently features musicians who specialize in forms just as obscure as the disciplines he names here.
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People need to lay off the Huegenots.
I'm in the 'Swiftian' camp. However, like Dave, I come from a place where everybody is in the Klan (which is actually just a vicious rumor based on the fact that the Klan ran the state in the 20s. Barely anybody from then is even alive now. Come on.)
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People need to lay off the Huegenots.
I'm in the 'Swiftian' camp. However, like Dave, I come from a place where everybody is in the Klan (which is actually just a vicious rumor based on the fact that the Klan ran the state in the 20s. Barely anybody from then is even alive now. Come on.)
I've done the research: He really dislikes Unitarians.
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If his intent was a Swift/Colbert bit of irony he failed in the most tone-deaf way possible. But I don't think that's the case. I mean, does he actually enjoy hearing Rudolph at the mall?
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Keillor recalls, "When the show started, it was something funny to do with my friends, and then it became an achievement that I hoped would be successful, and now it's a good way of life."
Now's your chance!
http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/TalkRadio/Event/PrairieHome_Encore.aspx
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Keillor recalls, "When the show started, it was something funny to do with my friends, and then it became an achievement that I hoped would be successful, and now it's a good way of life."
Now's your chance!
http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/TalkRadio/Event/PrairieHome_Encore.aspx
18 bucks a ticket, and the show isn't even live?? Whew.
I guess keillor's looking for revenue from everywhere, he even hosts a wintertime cruise in the Caribbean with tickets starting in the thousands.