Who will yell & scream at the 'competitors'? Doug On 16-Dec-09, at 1:49 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > We don't have problems with the same kind puritans as Tomkins, of > late the > fanatics are emissaries of dumb-down culture. I'm giving up the > ghost with > the local poetry scene here. What really frightened me though was > seeing a > clip of the X-factor impressario Simon Cowell: he's interested in > doing > something similar in a political vein, can you imagine it? The Death > Penalty > - The Nation Decides (text to ....) Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html The artist has no right to waste the time of the listener. Eric Alfred Leslie Satie