The Furious Spinner

C-Span has made available the video of the White House Correspondents Dinner with Stephen Colbert. If you don't want to buy it, put in a request at the library. (At the same time you can ask for Mercy, Unbound. I'm just saying.) All this brouhaha over his is amazing. Colbert was hysterically funny. He was ovary funny. Ballsy funny. He was nervy funny. As angry as I am with this administration, I don't think I would have had the nerve to do what he did. That takes such moxie. He not only took the Emperor to task; he lambasted the press—funnily. With truthiness. Our press, our Congress, our selves have been a part of this terrible time in our history.

I'm hoping that in the fall we can have a renaissance. Years ago I was at a convention and Terry Carr, an influential editor at the time, was on a panel. He said the thing he didn't like to see in writing, or in life, was nihilism. He wasn't specifically talking about nihilism in the sense that God is dead; he talked about cynicism coupled with nihilism: the idea that it was cool to think everything was worthless so let's just party and destroy until it's 1999. You get the idea. And I agreed with him then and now. I hope it becomes the norm again to care about our neighbors and our planet.

But I digress and my husband is waiting for me to get dressed so we can go out into this beautiful (and gray) day. 1 comments

1 Comments:

I saw a few mintues of it I wanted to watch but I thought I better not, now I will after I finish reading Mercy, Unbound

Kathleen

By  Anonymous, at 8:37 AM  

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