Comments on: Candy Floss Evaporates, Honey/Only the Stones Remain

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:04:43 +0000

Admittedly, “Walking on Sunshine” is an adequate pop product.

By: Richard Cownie

Richard Cownie — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:37:27 +0000

No fair. “Walking on Sunshine” is just about the
perfect pop song. I saw Katrina and the Waves live
around 1986, and if I don’t recall KR’s guitar
playing in any detail it’s only because I was too
busy dancing.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:37:12 +0000

Walt: “If you think kids are coarser and ruder today than they were twenty years ago, then you’re insane. Kids today are better behaved than when I was a kid.”

That’s my impression.

omicron: “That’s a hard claim to make. How do you quantify ‘rudeness’?”

Actually, it’s an easy claim to make. As to the quantification of rudeness, I use the Revised Uniform Descriptor of Explicit Nastiness Exhibited Socially Scale.

By: jf

jf — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:51:46 +0000

Kimberly Rew can totally kill on guitar, but it seems only in combination with Hitchcock.

By: rekniht

rekniht — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:51:08 +0000

Re 7:

The majority of the Simpsons episodes watched are repeats. There was a time a few years ago in Baltimore that you could watch the Simpsons from 6PM until 11:30 straight on the various local stations. The effect is that Bart does not behave differently than he did before since we are still watching his previous behavior.

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:56:02 +0000

It’s pointless to use the Simpsons as a yardstick for crassness, because the Simpsons hasn’t remained constant. In other words, it’s not that people used to fear Bart but now Bart looks good—it’s that Bart behaves differently now than he did before.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:56:00 +0000

i was commenting more on the perception of the kids these days then the actuality. I think they’re just fine, most of them. I’m more concerned about the family values types, who seem to be on the verge of a collective aneurysm.

Also, Bart has gotten a little more tame over the years.

CJColucci #2- I remember quite a lot of the Simpson’s. I was 12 when the debuted and I still recall watching the first episode. I’m not that young.

By: omicron

omicron — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:27:21 +0000

4: That’s a hard claim to make. How do you quantify ‘rudeness’?

By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:19:57 +0000

If you think kids are coarser and ruder today than they were twenty years ago, then you’re insane. Kids today are better behaved than when I was a kid.

By: thag

thag — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:43:40 +0000

1—
which kind of vindicates the family values, types, right?

They thought that the Simpsons would contribute to the coarsening of popular culture and the difficulty of raising decent kids, and sure enough the culture is coarser and the kids are ruder.

Look, maybe the events haven’t vindicated the most hysterical worries. But they sure have not proved the more moderate worries wrong.

By: CJColucci

CJColucci — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:56:40 +0000

How much will Keith be able to remember?

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:19:43 +0000

I remember back when the Simpsons debuted and family values types were in an uproar about how Bart Simpson was a 2D Antichrist and his prominence meant impending doom for all mankind. Now, his antics seem so tame that parents wish their kids were as well behaved as Bart Simpson. How times change.