HOLD ON TIGHT

HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, My cousin's, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. ~ The Waste Land, "The Burial of The Dead", Eliot Sunday, April 15, 2007 facebook is fascinating. just checked my groups, to find a group invitation: "I'm pissed off that my prime minister's getting S$3.1 million this year", with 430 people having joined in the last 12(?) hours (correct me if im wrong), and random people creating photoshopped posters including PM with a gun (!) superimposed against tanked topped women and the line S$2.5 m is not enough - 007. i'm wondering if this is the first "political" singapore facebook group. granted, most of the people in the groups are just university students (i think pinquan was one of the creators), but to whoever who said, singaporeans were politically apathetic was obviously trying to create a performative, self-fulfilling prophecy. political humour, i think, has the same status as toilet humour and racist humour in sg. that too is troubling. the thing about racist jokes, is that they simply reveal the extent to which inequalities and social sicknesses are naturalised to become a part of pop culture. professor m. gilesenan talks about humour as subversion and rebellion, an intellectual victory. but i wonder if humour and laughter is part of the notion that "oh we're like this, irrevocably, unchangeably, we might as well just laugh about it" posted by dawn # 12:51 PM Comments: Post a Comment << Home		[publishing] Publishers Weekly . Dystel & Goderich . New York Center for Independent Publishing . Association of American University Presses . Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators [people] clarisse . nurul . aunty zarina (ummi's bakery) . jeremy . pak . cyril . softblow . karen & kenny (booksactually) . eric . joel . [other loves] digitaljournalist . ballet dictionary . poetshouse . urbanwordnyc [me] dawn, singapore, new york city, ithaca. [yesterday] patience 快快乐乐，高高兴兴，点点滴滴自由 i flew in and out of la guardia airport in less th... haroun and the sea of stories ! i had a good day, good classes, cooked pasta for d... 在这个城市里，很多东西变化无常。我很爱我的朋友；他们都很爱我。很多东西永恒不变。 Revolution, Spring 2007 The elbalmer's art she tells me, he was heavy when he left . i can't... [archives] January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009

HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT

And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

~ The Waste Land, "The Burial of The Dead", Eliot

Sunday, April 15, 2007

facebook

is fascinating. just checked my groups, to find a group invitation: "I'm pissed off that my prime minister's getting S$3.1 million this year", with 430 people having joined in the last 12(?) hours (correct me if im wrong), and random people creating photoshopped posters including PM with a gun (!) superimposed against tanked topped women and the line S$2.5 m is not enough - 007.

i'm wondering if this is the first "political" singapore facebook group.
granted, most of the people in the groups are just university students (i think pinquan was one of the creators), but to whoever who said, singaporeans were politically apathetic was obviously trying to create a performative, self-fulfilling prophecy. political humour, i think, has the same status as toilet humour and racist humour in sg. that too is troubling. the thing about racist jokes, is that they simply reveal the extent to which inequalities and social sicknesses are naturalised to become a part of pop culture. professor m. gilesenan talks about humour as subversion and rebellion, an intellectual victory. but i wonder if humour and laughter is part of the notion that "oh we're like this, irrevocably, unchangeably, we might as well just laugh about it"

posted by dawn # 12:51 PM

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