Comments on: Michael and Me

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semanticdrifter — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:27:38 +0000

I think the film you’re referring to is Manufacturing Dissent. I have seen it and it is pretty good. It’s basically a Michael Moore-style documentary about Michael Moore. I think its a good counterpoint to the ways in which documentaries can be edited to convey almost any point of view. I would netflix that bad boy.

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Texas_JAM — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:21:21 +0000

Have you seen the documentary about Moore from (I believe) 2 Canadians? It ‘s supposedly very good. I haven’t been able to see it in Texas. Blockbuster doesn’t have a wide variety of documentaries.

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Anonymous Too — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:59:57 +0000

I remember one time at FSU, I got really drunk and ran into a mailbox.

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Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:35:58 +0000

I read 150 pp of T.S. Eliot’s The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry while waiting to get in to the Angelou event. Even at the time I thought to myself, “Nuts.”

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semanticdrifter — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:31:22 +0000

Hmm. Maybe I am looking back at the speech through the lens of what came after and the commentaries Moore has since made, but the way I remember it he encouraged everyone to do what they could to keep the present administration from ascending to power. I do recall his comment re: a vote for Nader is also a vote for Bush, but in my recollection it was a pretty strong admonishment.
The line was ridiculous, but not as bad as Maya Angelou.

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Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:08:19 +0000

Funny, I was at Moore’s 2000 speech at FSU and came away thinking he was ambivalent about the difference between either Gore or Bush winning. I remember someone in the audience, a guy with a shaved head, asked him whether or not he shld vote for Nader. Moore sort of hemmed and hawed and ran his fingers through his hair like he does and said, “Well, I don’t know I guess at this point a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush, I guess,” or something like that. Previous to that night I’d read several essays of his encouraging everyone to not vote – to boycott an election that was merely a distinction without a difference. That was a good night though. I waited in line for hours to get in.