She’s Well Known For Not Knowing. The Avant-Garde Sarah Palin.
then success is sure.”
Mark Twain
Sarah Palin could do no wrong for so many people. I mean, she is a female Larry the Cable Guy minus the class and intelligence.
She’s well known for not knowing. Sarah Palin’s “our North Korean allies” gaffe, quickly corrected, garnered far too much attention. Biden’s done worse (introduced candidate Obama as “the next President . . . Barack America; asked wheelchir-bound state Senator Chuck Graham to “stand up, let the people see you.”). Candidate Obama himself observed he’d campaigned in “57 states, I think one left to go,” and that the heatlhcare proposal, among other improvements, would bring greater “inefficiencies.” Ronald Reagan, the Great Communicator, boasted that “We are trying to get unemployment to go up, and I think we’re going to succeed.” Finally, who can forget Richard Nixon’s slip of the tongue, “I am not a crook.”
she commisserated with our “ally” North Korea. Her supporters glory in her knowledge gap; she reflects back to them their own mistrust of ambiguity and comfort with simplicity. Sarah Palin is wholly one of them, the long sought expression of their frustration with distant politics. She’ll be their standard bearer – perhaps at the head of a 3rd party column – in 2012.
“Singlemindedly devoted to unpremeditated improvisation . . .”
“a teacher without a rulebook, a guitar-hero without hot licks and a one-man counterculture without ever believing he knew all the answers – or maybe any at all.”
“He likened improvisation to spontaneous relationships and conversation – full of accidental harmonies, misunderstandings, passion . . .”
“He likened improvisation to spontaneous relationships and conversation – full of accidental harmonies, misunderstandings, passion . . .”
(fr: Guardian Jazz Correspondent John Fordham’s Obit for Derek Bailey)
(fr: The Independent’s Jazz Critic Steve Voce’s Obit for Derek Bailey)
“He turned his back on commercial music . . .”
“He believed in turbulence and musical aggression . . .”
“He believed in turbulence and musical aggression . . .”
