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10/27/2005 Entry: "Follow-up on this, all you Samuel Langhorne Clemenses out there..."

Follow-up on this, all you Samuel Langhorne Clemenses out there...

" That’s like having a testicle that you “wouldn’t mind losing.” " Pardon? Well, that's JDM's parlance around Halloween when he tries to stop being possessed like the others by the evil spirit of 'utterly pointless' (JDM) consumerism and flees from the hurdy-gurdy of the possessed crowd. And "this", in the header, stands for the latest column of Jonathan David Morris, which is sort of a milestone, as for the first (?) time the columnist we like so much, the chronicler of American lore, fads and trends, of pop culture and all that pseudo-pop of a type that probably did not exist before the Great Depression, and in love with it most of the time, rides a critical stance. Bravo! Individuals against commercialized group think unite! Instead of hearing all the time, albeit justified, this repetitious and huge amount of Bush and politicians bashing, it is refreshing to once read about, and from the same quill-pen, the mindlessness of mainstream folk drowned in "culture" not of their making, but undergone like a result of so many daily little rapes they accepted from all those ghosts believed in... Here we go:

Ten Things I Hate About Halloween

http://www.butterbach.net/jdm/jdm95.htm