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...rebel against. The strange side effect of today's meta-stories is that kids get exposed to the parodies before, or instead of, the originals. My two sons (ages 2 and 5) love The Three Pigs, a storybook by David Wiesner in which the pigs escape the big bad wolf by physically fleeing their story (they fold a page into a paper airplane to fly off in). It's a gorgeous, fanciful book. It's also a kind of recursive meta-fiction that I didn't encounter before reading John Barth in college. Someday the kids will read the original...
It’s hard to ignore the familiarity of Patrick Wolf’s video for “The Magic Position.” Featuring bright colors, symbolic pigeons, happy dancing people and an orange-haired Wolf, the video manages to invoke Rodgers and Hammerstein, Mary Poppins, and David Bowie simultaneously. The point is, we’ve seen this before in a music video, and can’t help but compare it to something like Björk’s “It’s Oh So Quiet.” Thus...
...Wolf: Overwhelming. It's a great relief to be back in San Francisco. It's also a bit of a lightning storm of both friends and media contacting me as I return to what's home, but feels unfamiliar at this point. It's almost like the country boy going to Manhattan for the first time, and going from almost no stimulus to almost non-stop constant stimulus. It does take a certain toll...
...Syria yesterday, and I didn't hear the White House speaking out about that.' NANCY PELOSI, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker, shrugging off Bush Administration criticism of her trip to Damascus, Syria, on April 3, during which she hoped to revive U.S. relations with the country. Republican Representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts and Robert Aderholt also met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on April...
NANCY PELOSI, Speaker of the House, shrugging off Bush Administration criticism of her trip to Damascus, Syria, on April 4, during which she hoped to revive U.S. relations with the country; Republican Representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts and Robert Aderholt also met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on April...