Re: RAT THE SUPERBOWL?

[Allison Narver <anarver@yahoo.com>]

Hey-
Where are you from Mary Ann?  I haven't met you. 
What's your story?  Glad to hear from you-- 
Allison

--- Mary Ann McGivern <mmcgivern@stlnet.com> wrote:
> In Iowa we'll host a troupe from Northern Ireland
> where cruelty,
> injustice, romanticism, passion for civil rights,
> commitment to the
> established order have cumulatively cost the crown
> billions of dollars.
> What sort of art flows from that experience?
> 
> And what sort of art flows from the experience of
> St. Louis, where $1.5
> billion is being spent by government on interest
> payments for the
> stadium, parking, a practice field, the Los Angeles
> Coliseum, the
> victory parade; another $.5 billion is being spend
> by business and
> individuals on tickets, luxury boxes, Rams shirts.
> The  minimum-wage
> jobs generated are touted as a great boon to the
> city; and the half-time
> show is touted as art. Are there  no tools to
> explode these myths?
> Better art that gelignite, but if artists don't
> speak to the victims and
> offer new visions, I fear the gelignite.
> 
> Mary Ann McGivern
> 
> 
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