Lee Pace the piemaker from ABC's Pushing Daisies (it's an obsession).
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MMM... The cold weather is wonderful. I'm so thankful this week was sweater week. It was so nice. Bundling up with coffee in hand, and the great hat that my darling roommate made me... It's great!
It's odd isn't it, how some days seem to fly by and others creep like a year did when you were little and all you wanted to do was celebrate when Jesus was born, mostly because that was the day that you got all the presents. I was glad that my long days sped by quickly, so I didn't have to endure the mindless 2 hour classes.
But today my Contemporary Literature class today struck a nerve. We were reading Allen Ginsberg's America and we were discussing how he is chastising America for it's superficialness, and its war and its attitudes. Now I personally like Ginsberg, I think his voice serves a purpose. People get hung up on the fact he is gay... for some reason, I guess because it is outwardly evident, they read his biography and see "his lover," and put him in the pile labeled "unfit" or "trashy". As though his homosexuality made what he had to say, his views of the world unfit for their "Christian" ears.
It rattles my nerves when Christians completely back their ears to everything that is in the slightest bit off the cuff. How can we love those who are in the world and expect them to have anything to do with us, when we will not listen to the things they have to say? Where is the love in neglecting them?
Also, there was something mentioned about how he was somehow anti-American, because of his attitude about America. But the thing is you can chastise something and still love it... That is what the Beat poets served as, every era has a media outlet of satire, and for the 50s it was poetry. That is what an artist does, she/he finds a way to leave the world they are in and rise above to, to look at it objectively, seeing where the kinks and the problem areas are. That is what sets apart a good writer from a regular Joe. Besides, he was talking to himself too.
It's odd isn't it, how some days seem to fly by and others creep like a year did when you were little and all you wanted to do was celebrate when Jesus was born, mostly because that was the day that you got all the presents. I was glad that my long days sped by quickly, so I didn't have to endure the mindless 2 hour classes.
But today my Contemporary Literature class today struck a nerve. We were reading Allen Ginsberg's America and we were discussing how he is chastising America for it's superficialness, and its war and its attitudes. Now I personally like Ginsberg, I think his voice serves a purpose. People get hung up on the fact he is gay... for some reason, I guess because it is outwardly evident, they read his biography and see "his lover," and put him in the pile labeled "unfit" or "trashy". As though his homosexuality made what he had to say, his views of the world unfit for their "Christian" ears.
It rattles my nerves when Christians completely back their ears to everything that is in the slightest bit off the cuff. How can we love those who are in the world and expect them to have anything to do with us, when we will not listen to the things they have to say? Where is the love in neglecting them?
Also, there was something mentioned about how he was somehow anti-American, because of his attitude about America. But the thing is you can chastise something and still love it... That is what the Beat poets served as, every era has a media outlet of satire, and for the 50s it was poetry. That is what an artist does, she/he finds a way to leave the world they are in and rise above to, to look at it objectively, seeing where the kinks and the problem areas are. That is what sets apart a good writer from a regular Joe. Besides, he was talking to himself too.
3 comments:
1. adore the piemaker :)
2. I love your thoughts on Ginsberg...why do some people think that love--love that is not similar or parallel to their own--is wrong? Thank you for pointing out that "you can chastise something and still love it"...
Christians really piss me off.
Just needed to get that off my chest.
That picture of Lee Pace makes me giddy each time I see it. Thank you for that.
As for the people in class...thinking like that, what will they ever know of love?
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