Does "north" London matter? I"m in south London. I can lie!
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On Wed, March 2, 2011 23:19, Barry Alpert wrote:
> You can email as well, though I suspect tweets get priority:
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> http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_late_show/about/email_craig.php
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> I like the possibility as a coup and a credential. Hoping to get
> Ferguson to respond to my query about performance art, but I'm taking my
> time because le mot juste required.
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> Tell him you're writing from north London, or Cornwall.
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> Barry
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> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 10:06:28 -0000, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> Thanks for the advice
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>> Twitter? At my age
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>> We'll see. But I'll do summat
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>> I may post some more proverbs! I think the censorships are the
>> punchiest; the others are a slower burn
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>> I know The Late Late Show. Ish. I don't even know British TV. I saw
>> some in January in a rented room.
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>> Thanks
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>> L
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>> On Tue, March 1, 2011 20:51, Barry Alpert wrote:
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>>> Lawrence,
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>>> If I were you and had been lucky enough to write this intriguing
>>> text, I would email it (with a question) to Craig Ferguson (preferably
>>> via twitter) in hopes that he might read it to millions of viewers on
>>> The
>>> Late Late Show, broadcast on the major television network CBS in the
>>> states, but accessible all over the world. Many samples from the show
>>> available on youtube. He's presently the most brilliant talk show
>>> host in the US, despite his origins in Scotland, and censorship stands
>>> front and center as perhaps his major topoi. I watch his show
>>> virtually every night, trying to sort out what aspect might be thought
>>> of as performance art. My candidate: the appearances of Sid the
>>> Cussing Bunny from north
>>> London.
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>>> Barry
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>>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:57:16 -0000, Lawrence Upton
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Respect the censors, they know things which you do not.
>>>> Censors are the fulcra of liberty.
>>>> Only the dangerous leave their speech uncensored.
>>>> Self-censorship enables the art of learning.
>>>> Thought is the censor of activity.
>>>> Teaching is wise censorship.
>>>> Wise censorship is educative.
>>>> Legal activity is the censor of destructive thought.
>>>> He who keeps his peace keeps the peace.
>>>> Denial is not rebuttal.
>>>> A censor is average but not mean.
>>>> Public figures need not be censored.
>>>> The ship of state is censorship.
>>>> Truth does not lie in a censored text.
>>>> Censorship maintains complacency among the faithful.
>>>> Excision brings precision.
>>>> Does a sheep quibble over words?
>>>> Does a hawk care what name its prey has?
>>>> The dying do not tell the truth until they have despaired.
>>>> Only the foolish think their words are free.
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>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Lawrence Upton
>>>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>>>> Dept of Music
>>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>> --
>>>> Long interview from 1998
>>>> http://lawrenceupton.org/data/InterviewCarolineAndrews.pdf
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>> --
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>> -----
>> Long interview from 1998
>> http://lawrenceupton.org/data/InterviewCarolineAndrews.pdf
>>
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--
Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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Long interview from 1998
http://lawrenceupton.org/data/InterviewCarolineAndrews.pdf
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