11.28.2005

STRANGER THAN FICTION: Good gracious do we live in ridiculous times.

Posted by Scott Hess at 10:19 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's Philip K. Dick's world, we just live in it - without him, the dirty rat.

Mon Nov 28, 09:33:00 PM CST
Anonymous said...

Please don't ask why, but I happened to see Snoop do his new hit "Drop it like it's hot" about a year ago on the "Ellen" show. It was somewhat of a watershed pop culture moment for me.

At one point, Mr. Broadus danced up into the audience, composed mainly of young to middle aged females, many of whom were no doubt soccer moms. They were having a good time dancing to the rap music- some even got to dance solo with the man himself. And Snoop's doing his thing-singing about being a pimp and turning bitches out. They obviously didn't understand that Snoop would gladly turn any of these bitches out as well (explanation for Laurel- this means Snoop would become their pimp and earn money when they prostituted themselves to men on the street).

I have to believe that Snoop's posse must have been watching this back in the green room and having the same type reaction I was having... almost as if they'd entered a parallel universe. Or perhaps they knew their message just needed time and that this was where it was all headed anyways.

(by the way, these types of juxtapositions seem to happen all the time these days- I think one of the first I can remember was when Rage Against the Machine played Saturday Night Live when they were hot- the final goodbye scene on stage showed the lead singer for Rage arm in arm with that night's host, Steve Forbes.)

Tue Nov 29, 08:08:00 AM CST
L. said...

Isn't "Snoop" really called "Snoop, doggy-dog?" What a cute name! How can anyone not love a guy with a name like that! It makes me wanna' tuck one of his new CD's into my kid's stocking for Christmas.
L.

Tue Nov 29, 08:22:00 AM CST

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