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You say you want an Avrilution?

Brian Doherty | 1.31.2003 2:55 AM

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Is it detournement? Further proof of audience sovereignty over the culture barons? Just a smart-ass joke? It's amusing, it's confusing, it reveals heretofore hidden subterranean cultural links between deceased conservative revolutionaries and cute young pop stars. Viva la Avrilution!

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Brian Doherty was a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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  1. Billy Oblivion   24 years ago

    BORING BORING BORING.

  2. Brad S   24 years ago

    Avril makes me need Advil.

  3. DavidMSC   24 years ago

    WTF is an "avril"?

  4. scott h.   24 years ago

    Umm, what does any of that have to do with Barry Goldwater?

  5. anon   24 years ago

    Read the Call to Action.. curiously Goldwater-esq

  6. Ethel Redd   24 years ago

    Sad lack of understanding of how TV progamming works. Shows are cancelled due to "hipness" factor--shows are cancelled when they don't make money.

  7. avril   23 years ago

    Avril's the best and we'll always love her no matter what some losers like you said. AVRIL RULES !!!

  8. Creature SH   23 years ago

    Dear lawrd, that is sad.

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