Diary (lame Guardian hit piece on FR)

The Guardian ^ | 9-16-04 | Tim Dowlin

[tophat9000]

Yea.. some asked me for a rubber for sex one so I handed them a tire patch kit...ba.da...boon!

[sweetliberty]

Awww.....poor wittle troll got his wittle feewings hurt.

[dr_who_2]

Left wing journalists demonstrate their good faith. Fortunately, you can get the full story here if you're not happy with the filtered story over there. Nice to know we're getting to them.

[AuntJane]

Thanks for posting this picture. I went to the website & ordered several buttons.

[struggle]

He's the inspiration for "In The Future There Will Be Robots"

Don't ask, google it.

[struggle]

Tim Dowlin began his career in theater as an actor at Philadelphia's High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, where he studied with Mel Williams, and became one of the founding members of the Theater for a New Generation (TFANG). Dowlin has appeared in numerous TFANG productions; his first play, Corner Wars, premiered in Philadelphia at Temple University in December 2001, and in New York at the 47th Street Theater in January 2003. In writing Corner Wars, Dowlin wanted to provide the outside world with a view of life on the street that would feel real, and illustrate the criminalization of poverty. For both typical theater audiences and those that live in the midst of real-life corner wars, the play represents an attempt to break the cycle of poverty and violence. He also recently won the prestigious Oppenheimer ("Oppy") Award for Corner Wars.

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An interview of another man like him:

Amy: Welcome back to K-Chat, my next guest is the star of the hit show, 'Just
the Five of Us', where he appears as the rich father of a family of
misfits. But more recently he's been working on a controversial theatre
piece 'In the Future there will be Robots'. Claude Maginot. Welcome to the
show!
Claude: Thanks Amy, however, you have mispronounced my name. It's Madge, which
rhymes with badge. Uh as in duh and no as in more then your. Maginot.
Anyway thank you for having me on your show. It's always a pleasure to
discuss my art
Amy: Yes, you're so funny! now Claude, you're an interesting man, if you don't
mind me saying so much, because on the one hand you're on the funniest
show in the whole wide world, just the five of us, and on the other you do
those weird theatre dance shows which aren't funny
Claude: Yes, thank you technical school dropout, I'm sure sitting here talking
all day is terribly difficult Juliard. In the future there will
be robots is not a funny piece. It deals with the most important issues
in the world today, love pain, suffering, skin tight pants and well
stretched groin muscles. But see music has no name Amy, it's about depth
and texture and the sense of community that emerges from the struggle
going on within all of us. between man and machine, between the angel
and the beast. It's as if Petrushka and Leonard Bernstein were in a
ferocious dance competition with switch blades. That is passion my
dear.
Amy: Um, ok, so it's a bit like Just the Five of Us, what a show! I love Jimmy,
he's so cute, even though he looks so young.
Claude: I'd rather not talk about my complications working with, him. I'm a
performer, I express myself anyway I can. While I'd never attempt to
describe Just the Five of Us as anything other then worshipless pap I
need to support my serious art. It's like stealing a boom box to do
live interpretive dance. If I bring joy to people's hearts doing an
interpretation of a tree in a park, who is harmed? There is a value I
derive from art, as a man, as a creator, and that is this: Never
overestimate the dreadfulness of the mass market, the degrading excess
of the culture or the horror we all have within us.
Amy: great, yeah, me too. but, as Mr Chesterfield you're so funny! what is it
you say? not in my house. hah, ha ha! that gets me every time. especially
after the drunken tramp you adopted has wet himself. Oh say it for me,
please!
Claude: As they say in France, matrise.
Amy: Please!
Claude: Not in my house. Please, I came on your fine show to discuss art not
people that whore themselves out on the alter of commercial success
dancing like a puppet alongside a genetic freak. Although I do that
too.
Amy: Ok, moody. So what do you want to talk about?
Claude: Oh, I don't know, my performance at the Hollywood bowl perhaps. there
are some that attend the concert inside. I am the concert outside
myself. in the parking lot where we build bonfires and dance it comes
back to the seriousness of my purpose. At a young age, I held puppet
shows on the corner that had people weeping and lying down in the
streets. It's about movement, about encouraging ordinary working class
people that there's something enervating about modern dance
performance. that seeing in the future there will be robots will change
your life, no matter what your life's like now.
Amy: So, it's kind like getting a new haircut?
Claude: Yes, exactly. No! It's nothing like getting a new haircut you halfwit!
This is movement! Watch my hand, yes movement! There's a manatee on
stage see he cannot hear from the wall of vagna around him. We have
lasers that shoot him down, cut him free, free his soul from the
bondage of the past. and then on stage, we have snow that falls that
represents love in all its forms. the robot makes a snow angel and we
begin to cry. close curtains.
Amy: um, ok. well, I love 'Just the Five of Us'!
Claude: Please, please, please, enough! Five succeeds while Robots starve.
Attendance has been poor. If I were opening this with the orchestra
philharmonic de halap in Mexico, there would be riots in the streets
with small children giving me flowers and weeping. here in Vice City
they wouldn't know art unless it came as a tube of beef jerkey. The
told me, Claude, it can't be done. Vice City is for sun worshipers and
philistines. And I told them no, I told them, if I'm directing a work
of commercial dross down there. I must save my soul with some serious
art. But to be honest Amy, they were right. I feel ahead of my time.
The best artists are ignored. I mean, surely, any right minded person
would rather spend an evening watching the express the meaning of
space. as they move delicately across the stage in the dance of desire
and denigration then flopping around in a disco or a nightclub or
sucking the electric teat of television.
Amy: I know I would!
Claude: God! I mean, what is wrong with you people?
Amy: God my hair!
Claude: What?
Amy: My hair, it's all wrong, it clashes with my dress.
Claude: Zeus, Sisero, Shakespeare, Floberce, someone please save me from this
hell hole. my dear, you are so interent, I'm trying to save you, to
save everyone. You don't see the art around you. Are you in search of
Auld Lang Synes, singing Madame Butterfly on a window sill or relegating
yourself to a cricket in Huckleberry Finn. I'm a movement that conquers
love while you complain about your dress. Know you not how important my
mission be?
Amy: Right, cool, Ok Mr Chesterfield. I mean, huh, Mr Maginot. You've gotta
hang in there. You're on K-Chat and I'll be right back.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[fire_eye]

I gotta say... the speed with which the fruitcake got ZOTted is what is responsible for the delectable **HOWL**ing which it is emitting...

Based on that, I think the Admin Mod has earned a Howlfulness rating. I think a howlfulness of 76 Reagans would be about right.

[xm177e2]

The Guardian pokes fun at FR for deleting a troll post. I wonder how the Guardian would feel if I snuck a stupid article into their paper newspaper? Methinks they would not be amused.

[weegee]

I find it unbelievably funny that a ZOT post was deemed "newsworthy". The left is so jealous of FR that is about the only FR news that they want to cover (their own trolling activity).

The buggy whip media has jumped the shark (to mix metaphors).

[weegee]

About as funny as the German equivalent of Time - "Der Spigel"'s expose on the FReeping of polls.

[Ethan_Allen1777]

My point, which you obviously missed, was that our rights are not given to us by any government or any document. They are the natural rights of all men. I recommend reading a little Thomas Paine to help you understand.

[Ethan_Allen1777]

One thing no one has is the "right" to post on Free Republic....Jim's house, Jim

I have never said otherwise.

[DaveMSmith]

"These are the times that try men's souls." This simple quotation from Thomas Paine's The Crisis not only describes the beginnings of the American Revolution, but also the life of Paine himself. Throughout most of his life, he was a failure, living off the gratitude and generosity of others, but his writings helped inspire a nation. He communicated the ideas of the Revolution to common farmers as easily as to intellectuals, creating prose that stirred the hearts of the fledgling United States. He had a grand vision for society: he was staunchly anti-slavery, and he was one of the first to advocate a world peace organization and social security for the poor and elderly. But his radical views on religion would destroy his success, and by the end of his life, only a handful of people attended his funeral.

Spot On. Everything we need is in the Writings of the founders"

Choose a Work by Thomas Paine...

• Common Sense (1776)
• The Crisis (1776-77)
• The Rights of Man (1791-92)
• Age of Reason (1794, 1796)

[DaveMSmith]

Sorry about the broken links

• Common Sense (1776)
• The Crisis (1776-77)
• The Rights of Man (1791-92)
• Age of Reason (1794, 1796)

The Crisis.
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

Summer soldier.. winter soldier... The Anti-American John F Kerry. Read them in today's context. That's the truth.

[marty60]

Thanks for the ping. boy is this a reminder. As with everything that involves skerry. He takes our great history and perverts it to his own political rantings. I think I'm going to hit my geneology files. There are some very intersting info in the military records of the time.

[Jackknife]

Some of us wear a suit and tie for the days FR postings.

LOL ...... Like Ronaldus Magnus;He always wore a coat and tie in the White House(most of the time, a brown suit.)

Shows class to show up at FR sharply dressed !

[Pitiricus]

If I count the times the al Guardian forums have banned me... Without cause except that I was pro-Israeli and not PC aboutr arab muslims...

[No Longer Free State]

223 Years ago, today, Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. Or hadn't they heard?