Daily Archives: January 14, 2011

TGIF: Sign of the Times

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv3tadz5Q3o

An inspired, fully choreographed American sign language interpretation of Cee-Lo’s bouncy Motown-inflected hit, “Fuck You.”  The delighted laughter of the audience says it all.  The young woman in the video posted this comment on YouTube:  “My name is Anna and this is my final for a college level sign language class. I am not deaf and still learning sign language and encourage others to learn sign language as well! Thank you so much for all the love.”

If you haven’t seen it already, you can watch Cee-Lo’s video here.

Lewis Carroll

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUnqbBgYZmI

Alice and the Cheshire Cat in the Disney adaptation

On this date in 1898 Lewis Carroll died (born 1832).

Frye in “The Nature of Satire”:

Non-satiric humor tends to fantasy: one finds it most clearly in the fairy worlds of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Walt Disney, in Celtic romance and American tall tales.  Yet even here one can never be sure, for the humor of fantasy is continually being pulled back into satire by means of that powerful undertow which we call allegory.  The White King in Alice in Wonderland felt that one should be provided for everything, and therefore put anklets around his horse’s feet against the bites of sharks, may pass without challenge.  But what are we to make of the mob of hired revolutionaries in the same author’s Sylvie and Bruno, who got their instructions mixed and yelled under the palace windows: “More taxes!  Less bread!”  Here we begin to sniff the acrid, pungent smell of satire. (CW 21, 44-5)