Thursday, December 8, 2011

Zappadan 2011 - Already Day 5


"second only to being in the Marines"

2 comments:

  1. I'm a fan of Frank's music and, in general, his views on society. He's wrong in his "union mentality" rant; "bad union mentality" would be correct. There are still millions of highly* skilled, highly motivated and highly dedicated tradespeople and others who are proud union members.

    There are definitely lazy, crazy, lying, thieving, sociopaths in any organization. As any organization's size increases, so too, will its NUMBER of malcontents and whankers.

    Those of us who post/comment here see examples of this from certain members of the batshit KKKrazzeepants opposition.

    I am sure that one Greg Camp will find this exegesis of Maestro Zappa's little speech to be tedious and sententious, in the extreme. He may, in fact, be reminded of the words of Shakespeare's Polonius:

    "My liege, and madam, to expostulate
    What majesty should be, what duty is,
    What day is day, night night, and time is time,
    Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time;
    Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
    And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
    I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. . . .


    Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 86–92".

    Polonius was, regrettably, a sycophant, a toady and a whanker whose own verborreah was, much like Mr. Camp's self-evident.

    Love, "Black Napkins" with Zappa and Steve Vai, btw.



    * This use and any subsequent use of the word, "highly", is not intended, nor should it be construed, as an indication that skill, motivation and dedication have more than one rate of engendering a certain level of job performance. "Highly", is not used, here, as a technical term nor as term of art. It is used as an adverb**.

    ** high·ly   /ˈhaɪli/ Show Spelled[hahy-lee] Show IPA
    adverb
    1. in or to a high degree; extremely: highly amusing; highly seasoned food.
    2. with high appreciation or praise; admiringly: to speak highly of a person.
    3. more than adequately; generously: a highly paid consultant.

    Origin:
    before 900; Middle English heihliche, Old English hēalīce. See high, -ly

    source-- (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/highly)

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  2. Yep. As I wrote, Frank was right on a lot of things but when it came down to labor politics, the guy considered himself as management, period. A union is an effort to bring democracy into the kingdom. Democracies have faults. Big ones. That doesn't mean we trash the democracy completely.

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