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David Weigel | October 27, 2006

Brian Doherty sits down to enjoy a Bob Dylan record and tries to shush all the would-be cultural critics who link every piece of art to politics.

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|10.27.06 @ 12:43PM|#

Don't follow Reason, watch the football season.

|10.27.06 @ 1:00PM|#

Nice piece, Mr Doherty

|10.27.06 @ 1:45PM|#

Brian Doherty, that is some first class writing.

I couldn't help but think of Roger Ebert's thumbs-up review of the terrible movie X-3: The Last Stand. A close objective examination of this movie reveals it to be chaotic, shallow and at times incomprehensible, I could go on and on about all the things wrong with this movie. But Ebert got caught up in the mutant-as-oppressed-homosexual metaphor because, as he himself admits, he's a liberal and this is one of his liberal causes. So he blinded himself to the reality of bad art and saw instead good art, inspired by his need to see a political/cultural statement that agrees with his world view.

I love Bob Dylan's music and I want to comment on him in depth, but Brian's act is too hard to follow. I'll say this; His lyrics are cryptic, powerful and hypnotic, you love what he's saying even when you don't know what the hell he's talking about. Some of his songs, like Mr. Tamborine Man, are about the sheer joy of being alive, and will lift your spirits.

|10.27.06 @ 1:46PM|#

wow. Nothing from "The Daily Kos Weigel" yet on Jim Webb writing about fathers inserting their four year old son's penis in their mouths, or a stripper's vagina cutting a banana in four equal parts with her vagina. Certainly, Mr. non-partisan Weigel could have come up with a snarky headline about that by now.

|10.27.06 @ 1:57PM|#

ex,

WTF??

|10.27.06 @ 2:15PM|#

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaw.htm

|10.27.06 @ 2:56PM|#

ex-subscriber,

remove your head from your ass.

http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027166.php#027166

|10.27.06 @ 3:13PM|#

Ooooh, I see...Jason. That explains why there is no mention of it here.....because it is mentioned somewhere else. Got it.

Speaking of heads, why don't you fill yours with something other than what is spoon fed you. If you have a comment, make it. Don't point me to someone elses comment, chicken-shit.

I like Balko, but the tired-assed, I haven'r read the book, but others have, and besides (excuse the excess use of periods, but you have to do that these days to show you are hip) Fathers. Sucking. Children's. Penis. Is. Not. A. Campaign. Issue. But. Macaca. Was. Is. Fucking. Ridiculous. And. You. Fucking. Know. It.

You guys better get better. You are losing.

|10.27.06 @ 3:28PM|#

ex, you're a moron.

Because it's not 'father sucking child's penis' but 'novel in which a character observes a strange custom that is nevertheless common in some parts of the world, and is disturbed by it.' Note some of the operative words there: 'novel' -- actually, fuck it. If you think this is worth talking about, you're an idiot.

In any case, your posts don't make any damn sense, nobody has a clue what you're trying to accomplish, and actually, nobody cares. I'm not sure who 'you guys' are, or what 'losing' means, in the context of your post. Personally, the only thing I've lost so far is the 5 minutes of my life now wasted trying to understand what the hell your posts are about.

Don't you have a bridge to lurk under, and goats to harass?

|10.27.06 @ 5:32PM|#

96 comments about Dixie Chicks, 1 about Dylan.

Now I REALLY feel old.

Jesse Walker|10.27.06 @ 9:39PM|#

Nothing from "The Daily Kos Weigel" yet on Jim Webb writing about fathers inserting their four year old son's penis in their mouths, or a stripper's vagina cutting a banana in four equal parts with her vagina.

I assume "nothing" is some sort of Republican code word for "a post put up at 8:32 a.m."