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From: ruby.ils.unc.edu!regab@fddinewz.oit.unc.edu (Bridget W Regan)
Date: Sat, January 4th, 1997 5:07:24 AM
Subject: Re: two penny opera
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Chris Calloway (venus_in_pisces@VNET.IBM.COM) wrote:
: duncan:
: >Lyric alert. I'd offer it to that nice, sensitive Counting Crows dude with
: >the tres chic dreds.

: i'd know more how to feel about that if i'd ever heard counting crows. as
: it is, i never even heard alanis until about a month ago when -somebody-
: had it on the tapedeck in, ahem, somebody's car.

: never heard sheryl crow either. or watched and entire episode of party
: of five all the way through. don't even know the names of the brady bunch
: and that was in -my- time.

blah. blah and blah fucking blah.  everything is faux.  sure lets you off
the hook.

: as it is: lyric disclaimer. faux poetry is offered for the purposes of
: uneditted, off-the-cuff, and absolute crap only. any other use is at the
: risk of one's own stupidity. 3.2.3 makes no warranty, express or implied,
: nor is responsible for loss of wages or property, due to the use, sale,
: or trade or faux poetry. if you want considered verse, suitable for
: soul-searching or feeling like uberman or whatever, check out t.s. eliot
: or that ezra pound dude. eloquence is for fascists, grad students, and
: mall developers.

it always struck me about this faux shit that you never had to make a
stand on anything.  and if you did... and it wasn't liked... well you have
an easy out.  everything is faux.  eloquence?  why dats fer peeps who
actually have something to say.  and since everything is faux.  WELL sure.
just shovel the grad students and the facists and the.. oh, yeah .. MALL
developers together.  

just take a fucking stand ok?  

Bridget W. Regan