I make maps to understand what it means to be blind, and a flaneur . Those ideas are elusive destinations. Think of them as streets you can wander along with me. Start with the first post, ![Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/04/isle_royale_fog.jpg "Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]")
"Brendan, this is what the world looks like all the time to me. Just a little fog. It’s a fine day for boating on the Great Lakes.” Without missing a stroke he turned to dart a skeptical glance at me. Brendan the Navigator. When we named him I didn’t tell his mother everything the legendary Irish name implied. But I imagined him taking on the role of navigator for me. Growing up with Coastal Survey charts and tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks, he came to know Superior as another home. He never doubted the wisdom of canoeing there with a father who was half blind. 
If there is an emerging genetic underclass, I could run for class president or class clown. Read more in 
![Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/02/charlotte_casiraghi_red_dress.jpg "Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]")
When I figured out who Charlotte Casiraghi was, I realized that I once sent a poem to her mother. 
Poet and street artist Miss Tic isn't exactly a kid in a hoodie with a can of spray paint. Maybe she can still run like hell when the police show up, but can she sprint in high heels? Well-known in international avant-garde circles, her work is exhibited now at the Venice Biennale as well as the alleys of Paris. I’m a week and a day late with this one, but Hurricane Ike slowed me down a bit. May your Monday morning feel as alive as Saturday Night.
Entries Tagged as 'satire'
Where Did You Get Those Tina Fey Glasses?
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September 22, 2023 at 6:00am
by Mark Willis
Sarah Palin · Hillary Clinton · satire · politics · fashionista Add Your Comment
Spoofing the Sarah and Charlie Show
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September 12, 2023 at 7:16am
by Mark Willis
While looking for a clip of the real thing where Sarah Palin elucidates the Bush Doctrine, I found this YouTube spoof. When access to reality fails, satire serves.
Here’s the blurb from www.britethorn.com: “This is raw footage from Gov. Palin’s first interview since being named John McCain’s running mate.”
satire · politics Add Your Comment
Another Inalienable States’ Right
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September 8, 2023 at 9:58pm
by Mark Willis
When I waxed nostalgic about Alaska’s take on states’ rights (think red meat and oil wells), I forgot all about fulfilling the llibertarian dream of growing pot in the back yard. Thanks to the1st Official Sarah Impersonator for reminding me.
satire · politics Add Your Comment
Parting Words: George Carlin
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August 3, 2023 at 8:47pm
by Mark Willis
George Carlin died six weeks ago. It’s Bad For Ya, his final comedy album, was released last Tuesday. It includes a bit about mourning friends for six weeks, then removing them ceremoniously from his address book like crossing them off a scorecard. “You know what I’ve been doing? Going through my address book and […]
satire · NPR · free speech Add Your Comment
The Times — Are They A-Changin’?
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July 22, 2023 at 2:14pm
by Mark Willis
JibJab is back with a new satirical video for the 2008 election — Time for Some Campaignin’. JibJab seemed to invent the Internet video mashup in 2004 with This Land!, which presaged YouTube by two years. Now JibJab has a YT channel and a commercial site. According to their YT profile:
Brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis […]
media · satire · politics · pop culture Add Your Comment
George Carlin was an American Rabelais
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June 23, 2023 at 12:18pm
by Mark Willis
“Does it sound like an old friend is gone?” That’s what George Carlin said about removing a compound matrilineal redundancy from his famously scandalous comedy routine, Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television. Thanks to Carlin and free speech champions like him, you can say those words on the Internet. If you are offended by […]
Rabelais · satire · 1970s · pop culture · free speech Add Your Comment
Fashionista Street: Lust For The Ludic
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April 3, 2023 at 12:01am
by Mark Willis
Gordon Brown greets France’s first lady Carla Bruni with a kiss on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street. [Source: Telegraph]
First it was nude horses. Then it was a postmodern deconstruction of Simon Fluegel’s earthy subminimalism. Hundreds of thoughtful yet distracted voyeurs have flocked to the blog in search of the ridiculous, if not […]
satire · kissing · Carla Bruni · London · fashionista Add Your Comment
Playing By Ear: Subminimalism In B-Flat
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April 2, 2023 at 12:01am
by Mark Willis
The postmodern acumen of this NPR music review is too deep to be buried in the April Fool’s archive. The author and sensitive New Age guy writing here is one Bryce Cobham-Dowling. Who he?
“For most of his 30 years, Simon Fluegel has explored the musical movement known as subminimalism. You probably know of him for […]
postmodern · satire · Playing by Ear Add Your Comment
Shock & Awe: Naked Animals Need Fig Leaves!
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April 1, 2023 at 12:01am
by Mark Willis
Think about this. “Decency today means morality tomorrow.” So true. We need more leaders who believe this in their hearts. Righteous men and true patriots like G. Clifford Prout, President of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals:
“G. Clifford Prout was a man with a mission, and that mission was to put clothes on all […]