To curse or not to curse: the problems of publicising a potty-mouthed play (The Guardian).
When you're a journo and you use an expression like 'potty-mouthed,' it's a good chance you need to review your career objectives. Do I want to be a career prig, a government censor, or do I want to review art. If the latter, reject it and start over. You are not qualified with such thinking in your head. At best, you could judge witches in Salem.
One of the plays in question is "Motherfucker in a Hat" and I'm sure that title has already traumatized your life or it likely will if you're as provincial as the journo writing the article.
When there's a Deeply Profound Issue in a single word, it should be readily apparent the problem is not in the word but rather in your puerile loading of it.
The complaint doesn't come from the Proud To Be Provincial crowd from some Banned in Boston neighborhood but rather from the country which invented the language ... and is now shocked by a single word within it.
How unutterably banal. The Land of Shakespeare has come to this. Send the journo a DVD of "Sound of Music" and you'll never hear from the simple-minded rubbishmonger again.
Of course the Puritans remain in England. That's the country which invented those too. As to the name of the journo ... what difference does it make.
Note: I did not read much of the article as what point given the premise but I did see the author has no understanding at all that playwrights are fucking with him/her. The question is asked about why they should give titles to plays when advertisers and reviewers will use asterisks to replace part of the name.
Consider that's exactly why they do it, Hambone. They mock your standards. Think about it and take as long you like. Thank you for serving as a tool for them and if you listen carefully you will hear the playwrights laughing.
But look at the bright side ... you could serve as an understudy for Wolf Blitzer.
Of course the Puritans remain in England. That's the country which invented those too. As to the name of the journo ... what difference does it make.
Note: I did not read much of the article as what point given the premise but I did see the author has no understanding at all that playwrights are fucking with him/her. The question is asked about why they should give titles to plays when advertisers and reviewers will use asterisks to replace part of the name.
Consider that's exactly why they do it, Hambone. They mock your standards. Think about it and take as long you like. Thank you for serving as a tool for them and if you listen carefully you will hear the playwrights laughing.
But look at the bright side ... you could serve as an understudy for Wolf Blitzer.
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