tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post5086928033444048221..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Hate Mail - I Prefer Music Made By People Who Don't Call Themselves FolkiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-80275701401274752352017-01-08T12:40:52.449-05:002017-01-08T12:40:52.449-05:00Walter Brueggemann is a lot easier to take and act...<i>Walter Brueggemann is a lot easier to take and actually has ideas that might lead to some kind of change. <br /><br /></i> Old Walt has ever written a song as good as Louie Louie, however.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-74381435684199589432017-01-08T12:29:21.978-05:002017-01-08T12:29:21.978-05:00You're really not very mentally nimble, are yo...You're really not very mentally nimble, are you. Or do you imagine someone is going to hire you for the first all-senile-jackass casting of Iceman Cometh? <br /><br />You're never going to get a bigger role than the one you play at Duncan Dopes' Bar The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-20711656947882705922017-01-08T12:25:12.270-05:002017-01-08T12:25:12.270-05:00Moe? Really?
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Harry Hope – Widowed...Moe? Really?<br /><br />Characters<br /><br /> Harry Hope – Widowed proprietor of the saloon and rooming house where the play takes place. He has a tendency to give free drinks, though he constantly says otherwise<br /> Ed Mosher – Hope's brother-in-law (brother of Hope's late wife Bess), a con-man and former circus man<br /> Pat McGloin – Former police lieutenant who was convicted on criminal charges and kicked off the force<br /> Willie Oban – Harvard Law School alumnus<br /> Joe Mott – Former proprietor of a gambling house<br /> General Piet Wetjoen – Former leader of a Boer commando<br /> Captain Cecil Lewis – Former Captain of British infantry<br /> James Cameron "Jimmy Tomorrow" – Former Boer War correspondent who is constantly daydreaming about getting his old job back again tomorrow (hence his nickname)<br /> Hugo Kalmar – Former editor of anarchist periodicals who often quotes the Old Testament<br /> Larry Slade – Former syndicalist-anarchist<br /> Rocky Pioggi – Night bartender, who is paid little and makes his living mostly by allowing Pearl and Margie to stay at the bar in exchange for a substantial cut of all the money they make from prostitution, he despises being called a pimp<br /> Don Parritt – Teenager, son of a former anarchist<br /> Pearl – Street walker working for Rocky<br /> Margie – Street walker working for Rocky<br /> Cora – Street walker, Chuck's girlfriend<br /> Chuck Morello – Day bartender, Cora's boyfriend<br /> Theodore "Hickey" Hickman – Hardware salesman<br /> Moran – Police detective<br /> Lieb – Police detective<br />steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-42681054799947460682017-01-08T12:23:24.789-05:002017-01-08T12:23:24.789-05:00Are any of them Jewish?Are any of them Jewish?steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-34384298087084130102017-01-08T12:11:03.292-05:002017-01-08T12:11:03.292-05:00Oh, dear, do I have to be the one who has to point...Oh, dear, do I have to be the one who has to point out that there is a "Moe" there? Or are you so self-absorbed you haven't noticed him? The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-8110331402211565602017-01-08T12:06:45.643-05:002017-01-08T12:06:45.643-05:00Larry and Curly? What happened to Moe, Sparky?
Ig...Larry and Curly? What happened to Moe, Sparky?<br /><br />Ignorant, philistine and not knowing the difference between 3 and soup is no way to go through life, son.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-10254789519772348332017-01-08T12:00:35.469-05:002017-01-08T12:00:35.469-05:00Wow, you're so stupid you can't distinguis...Wow, you're so stupid you can't distinguish between a general point and a specific instance. <br /><br />So, how much did the folkie do to counter Aussie racism and fascism? <br /><br />Is everyone who frequents Eschaton except Derbes and Echidne as stupid as you are these days? Someone told me that even Gromit dropped out. <br /><br />Harry Hope's Bar is the most brilliant analysis of the futility of the atheist play left ever written. That's the reason I have to cite it so often. You, though, aren't Larry, you're more the Curly who was left out of the play. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-15709459760138533432017-01-08T11:49:48.783-05:002017-01-08T11:49:48.783-05:00Wow -- you're criticizing a guy who lived in S...Wow -- you're criticizing a guy who lived in Scotland and later Australia his entire life for not doing as much for the American Civil Rights movement as the Black Churches.<br /><br />Apparently this is what passes for logic and historical analysis in Sparky Land.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.com