Out of the wilderness
I know I’ve been MIA for a while now, and may continue to be for a week or so while my store gets up and running, but I just wanted to jump out of the woods for a moment with this little snippet about our dear old state.
Has anyone else heard about this? How did I manage to miss this? I don’t really have the brainpower right now to analyze what it means, but it doesn’t seem like a good thing – from the intro that the poster gives to the state’s political realm, right up through the video snippet, we don’t come off too well. There’s a brief writeup of the event on the New York Magazine’s website as well.
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What an inspiration!
It makes me want to write an off-tune, obnoxious, somewhat sexist, and repetitive song about a global celebrity– with the hope that, in hitching my wagon to her star, I could, one day, be blessed with the opportunity to sing before the Louisiana House of Representatives.
I hear they have an entire session of amateur nights.
What we are witnessing (and have been for much of my life) is the death of any sort of content in our culture. Style is paramount, style is king and everything else must take a subordinate role to style. It’s easy to indict the hip-hop culture, as it is one of the major perpetrators, but one only has to look at modern art, literature, film, theater, music, etc., especially American sources. Today, everything is very derivative and exploitative and/or a sequel or “reimagining” of something that was successful in the past.
The fact that, in this case, it was allowed in the Louisiana legislature is disappointing and sad, though not terribly surprising.
I don’t know if postmodernism is to blame for Hurricane Chris.
Lamar,
I’m not sure I was assigning blame, per se. I just wanted to point out that there is little surprising about this turn of events, as evidenced by the overall death and decay of our culture. Hurricane Chris’ performance is just another symptom of a larger disease.
Maybe they are just trying to attract a younger audience to the world of Louisiana politics? That is definitely the most important thing that our legislators should be working on. Right?
I am dragging my jaw off the floor…you’re, kidding, right? Please say this is a hoax!
That’s very embarrassing!
It is not a hoax. I personally witnessed this and was completely embarassed for our delegation who sat helplessly waiting for someone to shut it down. Unfortunately the Speaker, like common sense, was not in the Chamber.
Screaming Bat’shot Insane as that little fete was, Fear not Halley Berry. For one thing she votes progressive.
Fear Haley Babar!
That’s right, Babar (Ms Gov Haley Babar)… as in the Elephant Emperor… and his little simian side-kick Zephir (Child-Gov Bobby Brady Jindal)?
2012
Babar and Zephir
ya’hoid it here…
Another Editilla call: Larry Flynt Mayor of New Orleans.
…hey, he already has an office on Bourbon Street, which would save a bundle on congressional lays errrah I mean liaisons.
What is Not possible in this country any more?
Jus’sayin…Palin is now a word that rhymes with Bailin’… we can’t make this stuff up!
Isn’t is Haley BARBOUR and not Baber? Did Hizurricane Chrizis write that?
Well poo-poo, please forgive my typo “Isn’t it Haley…”
Lest y’all think I jest, yer’riiiight. But…
Haley did open an office in Iowa and the man has a Rolodex bigger than God’s.
He makes BreauxLott look like a kindergarten sandbox lobby.
We (all us silly progressives) need to get this story out the door now: Babar. Haley Babar, that Cartoon Elephant Emperor that rides around in a hot air balloon with a little Monkey friend as his Vice Emperor.
I cannot draw cartoons, but I bet Lamar knows someone who can.
Remember the words of the Patron Saint of Guerrilla Theater, Abbe Hoffman said: “The first job of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”