An American Carol

Just saw An American Carol. I enjoy upside down humor, something that turns the world around. I love Marx Brothers and Family Guy. I hate most modern comedy based on sarcasm, self-deprecatory asides, and seemingly witty retorts. I hate modern sitcoms--except maybe King of Queens and that other one with the fat guy who sells toilets and the skinny wife. An American Carol is certainly wonky, certainly slapstick, and certainly hilarious.

I don't know if it was the suicide nun-bombers, the college demonstrators, the ACLU lawyer zombies, or just all of it, it hit right at everything. It showed that ordinary people dont have to live in New York and Washington, and dont have to talk like them either.

Speaking of talking...
After reading all the comments tonight regarding last night's debate, the only thing I read over and over was how Sarah Palin was too folksy and its not time for a folksy person in charge. First of all, how the hell can the democratic party claim to be anti-prejudiced, open-minded and have the nerve to judge Palin because she talks like where she comes from. This is a large country, and I am getting the feeling people in New York City and Washington think New York and Washington are the USA--that anyone else talking differently, using different idioms, mannerisms, even winking--gee, when did that become such a crime--are un-American. They have it dead wrong--America is the nation it is because of the places and the individuality of the places people really come from. Why would we want someone to hide their identity in order to sound like some general voice, no place, no background person? This is 1925 and Mencken Monkey Missionaries all over again--remember they called Southerners Backwards Bible Bigots. Yeah, same people nowadays, those Monkey Missionaries--only now it's global warming, smoking bans, talk-radio, telling the truth, etc...just a different style of clothing. Same boring ideas. Did anyone else notice that moment in the debate when Gwen Ifill actually said to Biden how he had said and believed in this and this and what he thought now--and then she added--well, at least you used to say that...did anyone catch that--how even Gwen Ifill saw through Biden's double-speak, Biden's walking hypocrisies, Biden as living contradiction. I just hope we learn before the election exactly how much stuff he has plagiarized this time.

Back to the movie--it was good. Go see it. It was refreshing to see other people standing up for things--especially when the microphones in this country have been hogged by a party of defeat.