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grigorss - 2008-04-07 19:25:11
"Amish Romance novels"?
Full of "hot bonnet-ripping" action, I presume...
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Bina - 2008-04-08 00:05:41
There are a lot of weird people in the world. No weirder than the ones in America, though...
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Mr Lojban - 2008-04-08 00:40:06
Nothing encapsulates American weirdness better than Wisconsin Death Trip.
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Bob - 2008-04-08 01:29:15
Yeah, but did America make you a "Marble Slab Creamery" goofball... or do you suppose you'd be like that anyhow? (But, yeah, we do seem to have pinball, rather than serene, cultures and thinking, probably cuz there are few large, or blanket, ethnic communities here these days. But an interesting thing about the mushrooming population of Mexicans in the U.S. - outside of Southern California - is that it seems unusually content to navigate with an unclangy, liquid flow... maybe cuz a lot of 'em are of Non-Old-World blood and have no great sentimental attachment to Spanish speaking Mexican culture? (Wait, why am I asking you??? [Not that I can be certain you don't teach American studies, over there....])
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B - 2008-04-08 01:35:06
That of course was directed at Prof. Bina's comment, Mr. L....
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Bob - 2008-04-08 01:45:29
Though your "Wisconsin Death Trip" example seems like it could be a prescient illustration of the "pinball" theory... (particularly the opera singer).
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grigorss - 2008-04-08 01:47:08
Wisconsin Death Trip -- The Movie ... is good -- but the book it's based upon is even better. It'll leave you feeling all ooky -- the movie, I suspect, will only partially "ook" you.
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Bob - 2008-04-08 01:58:16
And see, there's probably pinball machines that make that very noise (probably to designate a 'pinball' going 'down the drain')....
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MacGregor - 2008-04-08 06:09:17
And though I knew I was bound by marriage to Caleb, I could not deny the fire in my petticoats when I thought of Hans driving the oxen down the furrows of my back forty...
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Mr Lojban - 2008-04-08 09:36:45
Oh yes I was thinking about WDT the book. I haven't seen the movie -- will have to do that.
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RT - 2008-04-08 10:13:31
I've always loved Creflo and Taffi for their names, and I find their infoministry shows kind of soothing of a Sunday morning. I have a similar feeling about Joyce Meyer. Although I know that if we had lunch, we would probably argue about a lot of stuff.
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EG - 2008-04-08 10:28:25
From the New Yorker -
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/10/11/041011fa_fact_sanneh
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Paula - 2008-04-08 10:39:22
Wow--I had no idea that the Dollars are so famous.
I, too, have a soft spot for preachers.
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Bina - 2008-04-08 11:33:02
Bob - I am a walking, talking American studies class.
The weirdness, I think, is what makes America wonderful. You get to realize that when you live in a more or less homogenous culture where everyone is the same color, same religion, same bent of mind (more or less). The diversity I encountered in America is unmatched anywhere else in the world.
Although I only encountered the Marble Slab Creamery in the UAE - ha!
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