For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
“It changed my life” Your friend had been up against a wall until she discovered this spiritual program that helped her break through it. She was impressed–so impressed she subscribed to the whole program: the rituals, the grand assumptions, the preposterous theories. Never mind how irrelevant they were to her breakthrough. Never mind how many […]
“You’re wrong; it’s not the same thing at all.” You press a friend on an inconsistency, some double standard that has him talking out of both sides of his mouth. He denies it and you’re left to wonder who’s right, him or you? Well of course it depends. Maybe he is being consistent and his […]
“Darling, you’re absolutely right. I haven’t been paying you much attention, but from now on things are going to be different.”. “On” is the iffy word here. We’re generally not wise enough that a word to the wise, wises us up forever more. As long as the pressure is high, we respond. When the pressure […]
Last week I wrote about insider and outsider status within popular songs. I ended by extending that theme into humor. There is a lot of humor in which we watch to see whether the insider or the outsider prevails in status. Who’s in first place? Who’s in second? In picaresque humor like Beverly Hills Cop […]
MOGIBO is the sentiment expressed in many popular tunes, old and new: I’ve lost at love. I’m out of the loop and it’s sad. I can’t win in the mainstream. The world has left me behind. MOGIBO is one of just a few basic relationships possible between the in-crowd, the out-crowd, good and bad, and […]
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