One of the biggest things to hit Lincoln, Nebraska — while I was growing up — was the hit movie “Terms of Endearment.” That movie was shot in and around and under Lincoln and the local university, and many of its citizens, were the stars of the show.
Being misunderstood as an artist is a dangerous state to tempt because it means you are beyond common thinking and you are, and forever shall be, on your own.
The Postmodernist Art movement honors the — Collective Nothing — because the genre doesn’t want to be tied to anything specific, verifiable, or humanly truthful. The most famous Postmodernist art example in our lifetime is the disgusting “glass pyramid” addition to the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The outrage over the Seven-Year-Old grinders back in May was well-deserved. Their dance performance was inappropriate, silly, and entirely misbegotten. However, there was no serious chatter from authorities about prosecuting the parents or the choreographer for the promotion child pornography — even though the awful Perez Hilton was more recently pilloried for something far less worse or vile — in fact, you can still watch the whole grinding video on CNN.com right now.
