Everything I know about-
pretty much,
anything,
I learned from books.
Well,
there are exceptions.
Hockey,
dad and grandpapa,
swagger,
Steve McQueen,
kick ass butchness,
k.d,
how to make a woman swoon,
still working on it:-)
But, I digress,
don’t I always!
PBS and CBC Radio, NPR,
Radio Canada,
your basic liberal pinko media,
have kept me thinking,
since I got out of college,
oh so many moons ago.
Books let me,
dream, aspire, add texture to ideas,
but,
PBS et compagnie,
they shake me up,
my preconceptions, my prejudices,
my cobwebs.
My non-fiction reading is limited,
I tend to consume it,
through pictures and sounds.
What would I really know about,
Architecture if I didn’t watch PBS?
Not much.
I might never make it to the real live,
Lincoln Center or The Met,
but, still I go regularly through TV.
There is a lot of crap on TV,
much useless talk on radio,
but,
there is American Masters and American Experience,
and Q and the Current and The Independent Lens.
I watch crap like everyone,
Family Jewels, Castle,
whatever.
But, when I need them,
my pinkos are always ready to explain,
the situation in Afghanistan,
the depth of American musical theatre,
and why Leonard Cohen is in fact,
a genius.
How the cold and snow,
have shaped our national character,
the reading of Hart Crane’s poems,
over pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge,
Billie Holiday singing,
Karen Kain dancing.
The Congressional compromise about health care.
Information and beauty,
fun and analysis.
Where would I be without them,
where would we be,
awash in a sea of Fox News,
of Survivor and American Idol?
Let’s hear it for the PINKOS.
Later girls
BB
**inspiration Feral Geographer’s comment**