Brain Droppings

[lionmandrake]

-I used to be rather proud of my Italian-American heritage. However, these days, I ponder what has happened to "my people" over the centuries to make them degenerate into a bunch of orange, illiterate, ostentation-obsessed, knuckle-dragging troglodytes. Representing the poetry of Virgil or the orations of Cicero? Of course not. Apparently being

Comments

[goldrose]

May I please quote you on the Italian part of this post?? LMAO

[thejohngalt]

At first I was sure you were referring to that Jersey shore show.

[lionmandrake]

goldrose -- Not going to stop you.
mr. galt -- Its certainly part of the problem. If the cast and crew of that show were accidentally dissolved in acid, I can't say that I would cry about it.

[fetuskiller]

Nothing like lying in your bed and suddenly becoming an ice princess. What is up with that? Hmmm...

[thejohngalt]

You know I got to thinking about your post at length last night, about depictions of certain cultures, how they vary from historical representations of cultures, and the assumptions we make