Site-specific. When referring to dance, theater, etc. All the world is not a stage. Will was wrong on that one. Give me the proscenium arch every time. (Yes, a dullard, I know--unimaginative etc. But i embrace it.)
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
The Genius of Certain Geico Ads For example, "Antonio": The opening question: "Who's dog is this?" (For awhile I missed this because it happens at the beginning and so quickly. Don't make that mistake.) The spirit of Mad Magazine is still...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Bread & Circuses
The Coming Recession: They say a bull market (also read "fairly healthy economy") does not die of old age. Perhaps true. But it can certainly die by suicide. And this is exactly what is happening. It's as if the financial...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Priam's Daughter
Agent/Agency. It's everywhere now, suggesting some form of liberation. How did a word that means "acting for another" come to replace the word "empowerment"?
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Existential. Everyone's using it now along with the word "threat," i.e. Existential Threat, a threat to the existence of something or other. Let's make sure not to confuse it with Existentialism, which grapples with the issue of individual human responsibility,...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
My candidate for the most overrated movie of all time: Vertigo. What is wrong with you people? More later.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Bread & Circuses
Recently observed on a metal plaque on a park bench: “To love yourself is a never-ending journey.” Oprah Winfrey What has become of us?
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Post No Bills
There is a restaurant on Irving Place in Gramercy called Friend Of A Farmer. I walked by there this morning in a vulnerable state. Having had no breakfast yet, I was hungry. People sat outside seeming to be enjoying themselves....
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Flaneur
The Mystery/Suspense Shelf Mink Eyes by Dan Flanigan Arjuna Books 9781733610308, $9.95, PB, 296pp, www.amazon.com Critique: A terrifically entertaining and deftly crafted mystery by an author with an impressively flair for originality and a mastery of the genre, Dan Flanigan's "Mink...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Post No Bills
Another intriguing cranny: It’s on 4th Avenue between 12th and 13th in the Village next to the Alabaster Bookstore (which is supremely deserving of your patronage (see Flaneur blog post "Alabaster Bookshop"). It’s name is, simply, “Pie.” You order pizza...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Flaneur
