More Barry in Fantasyland: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > If anyone has any lingering doubts that ed11 > is really Jim in drag, here's the proof. > > Remember back when Jim tried to convince us > that the Backstreet Boys were great artists
He never said they were great artists. He said he'd seen them on TV once and enjoyed them thoroughly, even though their music wasn't his personal preference. No attempt to convince anybody of anything, just expressing his opinion. (The context was the limitations of Barry's musical elitism.) > and that "Iron Man" was the best film of the > year and deserving of an Oscar He never said that. He said it was the best of the superhero flicks that he'd seen and that it "oughta win some Oscars" because it was so well-made (Barry agreed that it was well-made). and that the > TV show "American Idol" was full of immensely > talented performers? He never said that. He did mention "American Idol" once, but only as an example (among several) of how the materialism of American culture negatively influences the rest of the world. (Nothing about the performers at all.) That's the kind of > settle-for-the-lowest-common-denominator, > uneducated, anti-intellectual and arrogant > approach he had to the arts, and to life in > general. > > And now here is ed11, trying to make a case > for TM by quoting **"Entertainment Weekly"** > as if it were the Encyclopedia Britannica. :-) She wasn't trying to make a case for TM by quoting "Entertainment Weekly," of course. > Here's ed11 saying that he'll "toss my bag > in with Paul and Ringo and Sheryl and Eddie > and the others." All that ed11/Jim needs to > help him decide any issue like whether TM is > appropriate for teaching in US schools is > whether aging rock 'n roll stars think it's > OK. Not what she said or what she meant. And oh, BTW: "I do not admit the possibility that any point of view can be 'right.' "What I would acknowledge is that your point of view is just as valid as mine." --Barry Wright, 3/28/09
