There must indeed be a word, Professor Burke, for when we think one thing is a derivative copy of another only to find out that the supposed copy actually came first. I bring up this old question because while watching Charlie Sheen's Ustream performance I was reminded of the Aldous Snow character in "Get Him to the Greek." who described the look he was going for as "White African Space Christ." It was a wonderful performance on the part of Russell Brand, and although his character's happy-go-lucky drug-addled rock persona shares none of the bitterness with that of the self-styled total freaking rock star from Mars, I think that schmoyoho's send-up captures something of a shared crazy-creative-utter-blow-out core. Taking nothing away from "Get Him to the Greek," I think Sheen's done a good enough job of bringing the crazy that I feel like going back in time and accusing anyone else who epically crashed and burned before him of stealing his bit.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
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You've got to stop using the "Read More" invitations that don't actually link to more content. I keep getting let down.
Sorry (and thank you for your readership)! I think when I first set them up I'd read that there was no way to leave them off of posts that didn't actually have "more."
In lieu of finding out how to fix this or removing the feature altogether and upsetting formatting for those posts that used it, I will use the feature for the next few posts so there's actually more to read. -Solomon
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