For 6 days, from Tuesday, March 16th to Sunday, March 21st , I was in Louisville attending this conference. It was fascinating and educational and fun. Here are some pix I snapped randomly, when I remembered to dig out my camera. Unfortunately I am not the best photo-documenter and most of these are taken whilst walking around the downtown, leaving out most of what I saw and participated in.
Shown is the giant (about 30 feet high) neon guitar heralding one's entrance into "Fourth Street Live", flagship of Louisville's downtown re-vitalization project consisting of a few blocks of cobbled street inside the financial/hotel district that have been amped up, so to speak, with the aim of drawing tourists to what is arguably not an 18 hour downtown, but rather a 9 1/2 hour downtown, despite hundreds of captive convention attendees, marooned there, like myself, if unwilling to pay exorbitant taxi rates to go elsewhere. The area has restaurants and bars, and for special occasions they block off Fourth Street here and erect a stage, such as this past Wednesday, for St. Patrick's Day celebrations when, oddly, it seemed to me, a band of skinny white kids in large Afro wigs rendered 70's disco tunes at high volume to the apparent delight of drunken spectators. I would have thought they might have located some fiddles and tamburs for the event, but not. Still, it was lively.
Some of these photos were taken at night; the "nightlife" was only three blocks from my hotel, and some were snapped at 7:45 AM while I waited for the CVS (the only such emporium that I found within walking distance) to open up at 8:00 AM--and on a weekday, I might add-- not open 24 hours as could be expected. The only 24 hour businesses in the neighborhood are the Love Shop, where one can presumably purchase certain genres of videos and/or goods and services of a particular type-- and the White Castle (home of the Slider)... (to be continued!) I will write more later...
Pedantica said,
the conversation continues: Post # 89
RW said,
Would I care if I had disabled kids and someone on TV or radio referred to them as mongols/flids/spaccers, etc etc? Yes – I would view the speaker of those words with the contempt they deserve just as I do any racist using derogatory terms – the same contempt if they were to do it in front of me.
The funniest thing about the Four Weddings opening scene was how contrived it was: “Gee Honey – look at that limey saying fuck in his funny accent”. On the other hand the implied violence of Hannibal’s statement is lost when dubbed over (badly). Personally I am more uncomfortable with the subject matter of Silence of the Lambs pre watershed than I am the language it uses.
The best send up of badly overdubbed swearing has to be Harry Enfield:
“And now on BBC 2, Martin Scorcese’s Badfellas, which has been specially ruined for television”
“Did you fun my wife ?”
“No I didn’t fun your wife”
“Fun you, you muddy funster”
“Suck my cake, you cake-sucker”
“Suck my lozenge”
And if cunt is the new fuck, what will replace cunt?