THE LEMON BASKET: THE BEST & WORST OF THE WEB
#542 SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
Copyright 2009 FRANCIS DIMENNO
http://dimenno.gather.com
francisdimenno@yahoo.com
AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE
TO see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.…
The bat that flits at close of eve
Has left the brain that won't believe.
The owl that calls upon the night
Speaks the unbeliever's fright.…
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine;
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.…
Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in Eternity.…
The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar
Are waves that beat on Heaven's shore.…
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the Sun and Moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out.…
God appears, and God is Light,
To those poor souls who dwell in Night;
But does a Human Form display
To those who dwell in realms of Day.
--William Blake
AUGURIES OF CHILDISHNESS
Neighbors think you're strange because you're nuts about your kids?
I'll let you in on a secret, which may or may not be an insight: They
think so because you are acting like a child. You're supposed to hide
that aspect of interacting with your children! The way they make you
more child-like as you spend more and more time with them. You're
supposed at the very least, to complain about it, not revel in it!
It's what society "expects" of you.
But I will never chastise you. I understand you completely. I love
kids, have always loved them. I'm just a big kid myself. Plus, they
amuse me. Because they have this almost psychotic ability to live
utterly in the moment which adults seem to forget very soon after
their 30th birthdays, if not well before. I think it may be because as
we grow more conventionally logical we lose something. Something
important for some people but disposable baggage for many others,
who reserve their childlike (if not downright chimplike)
enthusiasm for societally approved outlets, like sports
spectacles, patriotic rallies, religious worship, blockbuster motion
pictures, and the like. I don't scorn these outlets the way I used to.
I think they're probably better than nothing. But it's a pity that
modern man can no longer quite understand the almost mystical
existence we lived prior to the industrial era. We have to turn to
poets like John Clare and William Blake for even an inkling of what
that might have been like.
1*SALUTATION
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACbatchelor.htm
Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy,
2*REFERENCE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARBLING, MATURITY, AND CARCASS QUALITY GRADE
http://www.mtbqa.org/images/quality3.jpg
3*HUMOR
IMDB BOTTOM 100
http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom
4*NOVELTY
Regrettably, the followup, "Kind Mrs. Catsup," was never released.
http://www.musicnotes.com/images/productimages/mtd/MN0062554.gif
5*AVATAR OF THE ZEITGEIST
9/11
Millions and millions of civilian deaths took place during World War Two.
And yet, some 70 years later, even those terrible murders that took
place during the last half of the 20th century are nearly forgotten.
SEE:
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Smoke-Beginnin...n/dp/1416567844
Americans today feel personally injured by a terrorist incident on
their soil that killed 3,000, regarding it as a paradigm-shaking and
shaping catastrophe.
History may judge differently.
9/11 may be recalled some 90 years hence as a footnote in world
history, much in the same way as we currently regard "Remember the
Maine."
ALSO SEE:
9/11 KITSCH
http://www.aprilwinchell.com/2009/09/11/the-second-annual-mother-of-all-911-posts/
6* DAILY UTILITY
NEVAEH
This [name] first appeared in 2000 during an interview with a member
of the American Christian rock band P.O.D. when he was explaining
about his daughter's unusual name. Since then, Nevaeh has become quite
popular in America, but the pronunciation is up for debate.
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Nevaeh.html
ALSO SEE:
http://baby-names.familyeducation.com/topnames/girls/
7*CARTOON
LIGHTNING LASS--LESBIAN?
http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2055.htm/
8*PRESCRIPTION
PHOTOS FROM 9/11/09 WASHINGTON MARCH
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42406957@N04/
SEE ESPECIALLY:
http://moranswithsigns.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/obscurity.jpg
9*RUMOR PATROL
RACIST WATERMELON SODA?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/178322010_b052176342.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SD6Wa2mydw
1O*LAGNIAPPE
ulillillia
http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml
11*DEVIATIONS FROM THE PREPARED TEXT: A REVIEW OF OTHER MEDIA
MODERN POETRY
Gershon Legman, the great compiler of limericks, have noted that their
composition is essentially a bourgeois skill--that educated people
tended to compose them. As such, they are not a "low" form at all.
Verse gets a bad name because so many past practitioners (now
mercifully forgotten) were fantastically bad at it.
Modernist free verse, like abstract expressionism, is greeted with
bafflement by the general public, who senses that these forms were in
no way created for them. They sense, instinctively, that the forms
were intended FROM THE OUTSET to be beyond their comprehension, and so
they reject it. Quite possibly rightly.
It was Frost who said that free verse was like playing tennis without a net.
Frost is considered great because so many of his equally good
contemporaries (E.A. Arlington; Wallace Stevens) are largely
neglected.
Incidentally, of the two greatest epics in the English language, one
of them has not one rhyme.
I refer to Paradise Lost.
(The other is the Canterbury Tales. What--did you think I was going to
say Don Juan?)
And its greatest play has very few.
I refer to King Lear.
446. CONTROVERSIES IN POPULAR CULTURE
VIRAL MARKETING
It's just the same old shit with a little mustard slathered over it
and spread thick. Back in Mad Ave's 1950-70 heyday, they used to call
it a PR launch.
#542 SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
Copyright 2009 FRANCIS DIMENNO
http://dimenno.gather.com
francisdimenno@yahoo.com
AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE
TO see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.…
The bat that flits at close of eve
Has left the brain that won't believe.
The owl that calls upon the night
Speaks the unbeliever's fright.…
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine;
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.…
Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in Eternity.…
The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar
Are waves that beat on Heaven's shore.…
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the Sun and Moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out.…
God appears, and God is Light,
To those poor souls who dwell in Night;
But does a Human Form display
To those who dwell in realms of Day.
--William Blake
AUGURIES OF CHILDISHNESS
Neighbors think you're strange because you're nuts about your kids?
I'll let you in on a secret, which may or may not be an insight: They
think so because you are acting like a child. You're supposed to hide
that aspect of interacting with your children! The way they make you
more child-like as you spend more and more time with them. You're
supposed at the very least, to complain about it, not revel in it!
It's what society "expects" of you.
But I will never chastise you. I understand you completely. I love
kids, have always loved them. I'm just a big kid myself. Plus, they
amuse me. Because they have this almost psychotic ability to live
utterly in the moment which adults seem to forget very soon after
their 30th birthdays, if not well before. I think it may be because as
we grow more conventionally logical we lose something. Something
important for some people but disposable baggage for many others,
who reserve their childlike (if not downright chimplike)
enthusiasm for societally approved outlets, like sports
spectacles, patriotic rallies, religious worship, blockbuster motion
pictures, and the like. I don't scorn these outlets the way I used to.
I think they're probably better than nothing. But it's a pity that
modern man can no longer quite understand the almost mystical
existence we lived prior to the industrial era. We have to turn to
poets like John Clare and William Blake for even an inkling of what
that might have been like.
1*SALUTATION
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACbatchelor.htm
Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy,
2*REFERENCE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARBLING, MATURITY, AND CARCASS QUALITY GRADE
http://www.mtbqa.org/images/quality3.jpg
3*HUMOR
IMDB BOTTOM 100
http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom
4*NOVELTY
Regrettably, the followup, "Kind Mrs. Catsup," was never released.
http://www.musicnotes.com/images/productimages/mtd/MN0062554.gif
5*AVATAR OF THE ZEITGEIST
9/11
Millions and millions of civilian deaths took place during World War Two.
And yet, some 70 years later, even those terrible murders that took
place during the last half of the 20th century are nearly forgotten.
SEE:
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Smoke-Beginnin...n/dp/1416567844
Americans today feel personally injured by a terrorist incident on
their soil that killed 3,000, regarding it as a paradigm-shaking and
shaping catastrophe.
History may judge differently.
9/11 may be recalled some 90 years hence as a footnote in world
history, much in the same way as we currently regard "Remember the
Maine."
ALSO SEE:
9/11 KITSCH
http://www.aprilwinchell.com/2009/09/11/the-second-annual-mother-of-all-911-posts/
6* DAILY UTILITY
NEVAEH
This [name] first appeared in 2000 during an interview with a member
of the American Christian rock band P.O.D. when he was explaining
about his daughter's unusual name. Since then, Nevaeh has become quite
popular in America, but the pronunciation is up for debate.
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Nevaeh.html
ALSO SEE:
http://baby-names.familyeducation.com/topnames/girls/
7*CARTOON
LIGHTNING LASS--LESBIAN?
http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/2055.htm/
8*PRESCRIPTION
PHOTOS FROM 9/11/09 WASHINGTON MARCH
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42406957@N04/
SEE ESPECIALLY:
http://moranswithsigns.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/obscurity.jpg
9*RUMOR PATROL
RACIST WATERMELON SODA?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/178322010_b052176342.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SD6Wa2mydw
1O*LAGNIAPPE
ulillillia
http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml
11*DEVIATIONS FROM THE PREPARED TEXT: A REVIEW OF OTHER MEDIA
MODERN POETRY
Gershon Legman, the great compiler of limericks, have noted that their
composition is essentially a bourgeois skill--that educated people
tended to compose them. As such, they are not a "low" form at all.
Verse gets a bad name because so many past practitioners (now
mercifully forgotten) were fantastically bad at it.
Modernist free verse, like abstract expressionism, is greeted with
bafflement by the general public, who senses that these forms were in
no way created for them. They sense, instinctively, that the forms
were intended FROM THE OUTSET to be beyond their comprehension, and so
they reject it. Quite possibly rightly.
It was Frost who said that free verse was like playing tennis without a net.
Frost is considered great because so many of his equally good
contemporaries (E.A. Arlington; Wallace Stevens) are largely
neglected.
Incidentally, of the two greatest epics in the English language, one
of them has not one rhyme.
I refer to Paradise Lost.
(The other is the Canterbury Tales. What--did you think I was going to
say Don Juan?)
And its greatest play has very few.
I refer to King Lear.
446. CONTROVERSIES IN POPULAR CULTURE
VIRAL MARKETING
It's just the same old shit with a little mustard slathered over it
and spread thick. Back in Mad Ave's 1950-70 heyday, they used to call
it a PR launch.
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