Bruce Goode

Nothing like the flu to mess with your schedule

Working with video

found some old powered parachute photos so I thought I would give it a whirl

 

concerns about My Fair Lady

just to go off on a bit of a tangent here.

Went to see My Fair Lady

catchy songs, nice show ---- can't understand how no one else has a problem with the message?

so I did some digging for reviews and found a few others that I agreed with.

snippets

Clean it up a bit, dress it in fine, beautiful clothes, practice the manners, take it to the best places, and no one will ever notice the unreconstructed gutter-snipe beneath it all. In this case, I'm not talking about Eliza Doolittle, but the unavoidably sexist and now distressingly dated "My Fair Lady". Of course it's filled with some of the best songs ever written for the Broadway stage, and the script is a model of intelligence and subtlety, but there are presumptions and attitudes beneath it all that must be balanced expertly, along with a romance that is a paradigm of conditional commitment, or the whole thing becomes cold and slightly repellent. This production made it impossible for me to overlook precisely those things which, when carefully handled, make this unlikely tale so magical.  Jerry Kraft

Probably the most hideous blight upon all of modern culture is the appalling and inexcusable My Fair Lady. A thoroughly degenerate spectacle, Alan Jay Lerner's book and lyrics bid fair to drag all that is truly noble about human achievement through the sewer: My Fair Lady is a vapid, cynical affront to the civilized mind, a travesty that exalts all that is sniveling and contemptible and degrades anything even remotely worth admiring or applauding, affirming or cherishing. It is a sojourn through slime, the theatrical equivalent of a mugging. Watching it is like watching a biker gang beat a cherub to death with ballpeen hammers. (Of course it also does have a few catchy musical numbers. Conceded.) Whiskey Fire

 

Popular Email Address

My gmail address is popular today. What is funny is that the following were not spam, just emails sent to me in error.

1) I received an invitation to a wedding in Tiptur, India 

2) I am evidently in the new cast of Oliver at a Salt Lake City middle school since I was sent the cast meeting schedule with a note not to be late

3) I recieved an mri that shows a history of lower back pain in the left sciatica
(this one makes me nervous since that is an accurate diagnosis for me even though I am not a patient at the Florida Cocoa Beach Hospital)