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Entry: Unnatural Arts and Sports Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/unnatural_arts_and_sports#7899 Post contents: @ lester, "there is no line where citizen kane starts and “24” or evil knieval’s motorcycle jumps ends. they are all cool shit!" Actually I thought even "Citizen Kane" was puerile rubbish, let alone those other pieces of crap you mentioned as "cool shit." Come to think of it, the last TRULY "cool shit" indigenous American product I ever enjoyed, was (in 1996) some organic cannabis grown by a friend of mine; he offered a bit to me medicinally when I was hungover at his house, the morning after his great New Years Eve party, and yeah, it really WAS "cool shit!" (Heh, he grew it in an upstate forest, on land adjacent to his holiday cabin's land - he grew it surreptitiously on land owned by a mean-spirited Fundamentalist minister who used to hector him about "being in danger of hellfire", just so that IF those cannabis plants were ever discovered by the police, my friend's obnoxious neighbour would be sent to prison. Well, yeah, I have some "unusual" friends... :-) Now THAT was some REALLY "cool shit", in REAL old fashioned American style! (Libertarians among us, listen up! I agree with you guys when it comes to things like legalising marijuana - which, honestly, I've used only around ten times in my 44 years - last time was 1996 - and yes I DID inhale!) (Gloss: I know Taki won't look down on me for this, because he of all people knows, "things don't always go better with coke.") But anyway. Lester, those stupid American TV shows etc you called "cool shit" were not cool. They were just shit. America's GOOD "shit" is not to be found in Hollywood or on TV, but in very obscure, unpublicised nooks and crannies among mostly un-famous people. And @ Boyd Cathey: SIR! Your above comment has persuaded me, with no reservations, that you and I ought to have a few drinks together. We might quibble about details of history and theology, but anyone who loves Soviet cinema like you evidently do, is destined to drink with me sometime. Problem is, I'm on the other side of the world (Australia), but "the spirits" will guide us. Oh, and Boyd, I promise not to smuggle any "good shit" across the American border - because plenty of it still grows in America, and always will, and I don't just mean good grass... :-) Sent at: 2008 07 08