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A delayed Birthday day.
Oct. 16th, 2003 11:13 amHad another great day, you know the kind that starts in a soft and lingering mode, letting the ebb and flow inside you have it's way. The kind of floating that is very hard to accomplish when you are stressed, but is just wonderful when you are in a place and with a person where you can just be yourself to the fullest.
Had a great meal in an old Hindu restaurant that has evolved into a very nice world cuisine type of place, Rudi's in Boulder. The spiced bread, the veggie stuffed mushrooms and the Kali's delight was..just like a culinary orgasm.
We got stuck in a severe traffic line to Denver after that, worried that we might be quite a bit late to Michael Moore talking about Voice, Voting & Democracy at the Magness Arena. But it turned out well, half the audience was late for the same reason, so it all started half an hour later than scheduled.
He sure is a funny man, and I do think he is very sincere in his views on things (quite healthy views, very common ones for the average self-improving swede). Although he is probably starting to annoy the left wing american intellectual a little (a group roughly very much on the same battle ground side as Moore)with his methods of getting the message delivered.
Moore sometimes takes it the cheap way..the way of The Demagogue of the Masses, probably because he wants to reach the young students, the ppl that he feels are undereducated but have the means to better themselves.
He is self-depreciating in many ways, that is why I think he knows exactly what he is doing when he is not. If becoming a bit of a demagogue is the way to make the average American student get out on the net or into a book and look up facts he/she does'nt know, which is one of the solid pillars Moore is preaching about, then so be it.
The fun part of the show is when he picks out a random Canadian from the audience, and then three American A-grade students, and compare their knowledge in politics.
Extremely revealing, and the Canadians seem to have won on each of his shows during this tour.
The not so fun part is that he seems to be boycotted by all the major tv-stations. No media was covering this happening in Denver, where thousands and thousands of ppl filled up the Magness Arena, laughing, shouting and listening to an Academy award winner.
This seems to be the most effective way of subtle warfare from the powers at hand against the left wing.
His book sell like ice water in the Sahara though...
The day ended as nicely as it started. I could get used to this...
Had a great meal in an old Hindu restaurant that has evolved into a very nice world cuisine type of place, Rudi's in Boulder. The spiced bread, the veggie stuffed mushrooms and the Kali's delight was..just like a culinary orgasm.
We got stuck in a severe traffic line to Denver after that, worried that we might be quite a bit late to Michael Moore talking about Voice, Voting & Democracy at the Magness Arena. But it turned out well, half the audience was late for the same reason, so it all started half an hour later than scheduled.
He sure is a funny man, and I do think he is very sincere in his views on things (quite healthy views, very common ones for the average self-improving swede). Although he is probably starting to annoy the left wing american intellectual a little (a group roughly very much on the same battle ground side as Moore)with his methods of getting the message delivered.
Moore sometimes takes it the cheap way..the way of The Demagogue of the Masses, probably because he wants to reach the young students, the ppl that he feels are undereducated but have the means to better themselves.
He is self-depreciating in many ways, that is why I think he knows exactly what he is doing when he is not. If becoming a bit of a demagogue is the way to make the average American student get out on the net or into a book and look up facts he/she does'nt know, which is one of the solid pillars Moore is preaching about, then so be it.
The fun part of the show is when he picks out a random Canadian from the audience, and then three American A-grade students, and compare their knowledge in politics.
Extremely revealing, and the Canadians seem to have won on each of his shows during this tour.
The not so fun part is that he seems to be boycotted by all the major tv-stations. No media was covering this happening in Denver, where thousands and thousands of ppl filled up the Magness Arena, laughing, shouting and listening to an Academy award winner.
This seems to be the most effective way of subtle warfare from the powers at hand against the left wing.
His book sell like ice water in the Sahara though...
The day ended as nicely as it started. I could get used to this...
