Comments on: Culture wars target opera!

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:11:13 +0000

Well after all, “wanger” and “Wagner” are anagrams of one another, so maybe we’re finally getting to the bottom of this…

By: FDB

FDB — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:04 +0000

The Black Wanger?

Somebody’s been watching The Bullshitters, eh?

By: marcelproust

marcelproust — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:49:15 +0000

The body may be painted gold but Amor’s wanger is actually black, so far as I recall. I was in row C, but it was only brought out in the more dimly-lit scenes: could it have been the backlighting?

By: The Devil Drink

The Devil Drink — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:51:18 +0000

my arthuritis is killing me

Well pull it out, JPZ, pull it out.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:04:54 +0000

Oh stop it jinmaro. You wanna fight, pick on someone your own size.

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:51:23 +0000

jinmaro — Well, as Jethro Tull once said to me while we were sharing a “doobie” in the VIP Room at Max’s Kansas City, “Hey, man. We stopped a war, man.” Then Wavy Gravy fell by, and invited us both to Woodstock in his Love Bug. I’d tell you more about it, but my arthuritis is killing me.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:52:05 +0000

giant stiff golden wee-wee.

Been done. ibid: Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyte.

…I’d say jpz is 55 going on 16. Or vice-versa…

Well who isn’t misplacing their age on the internets?

Nabakov
aged almost 17.

By: jinmaro

jinmaro — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:47:44 +0000

Jack, on the basis of the two, bar one, posts above, I’d say jpz is 55 going on 16. Or vice-versa. Like the characters in Mozart’s operas, he appears to be driven by forces that he seems, ever-so-sweetly, to not fully comprehend, but very much enjoys.

Which also, if I may be so bold, is why my question to you, which you refused to answer, remains so apposite.

You both have a lot more in common than you can admit to yourselves.

By: su

su — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:37:36 +0000

Hmm, not sure but I think Jack Robertson may have coined a new phrase. Whenever Windschuttle chooses to invest some random artistic detail with spurious culture war significance we should say that he is “gilding the willy”.

By: The Girls From the Chorus

The Girls From the Chorus — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:00:25 +0000

Oh, we’re the girls from the chorus,
We hope you like the show.
We know you’re rootin’ for us,
But now there’s this giant gold-painted wang that the crazy German guy is telling us to bloooow.