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Stumpage Reports
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Tuesday, October 07, 2003 :::
Whatever...
For lack of anything else to write about, I ran across this Yahoo news story on Quentin Tarantino. I still enjoy the heck out of Reservoir Dogs and got a kick out of Pulp Fiction but don't think it holds up as well as his first film.
Here is a quote from the above-mentioned news story that I thing sums up Tarantino pretty well, and American popular culture in general:
"Yes, Tarantino has been influential," says Brett Ingram, lecturer in media production at Wake Forest University. "So has Jerry Springer. So has Ronald McDonald. So has George W. Bush. And this all says way more about the decline of our culture than it does about the individual we label as 'influential.' I think Tarantino is a masterful writer and film director. I just don't think he has anything important to say."
Runaway Slave Ad of the Day
RUN away from the subscriber in Chesterfield, the Wednesday before Easter last, a bright mulatto wench named Jude, about 30 years old is very remarkable, has lost one eye, but which I have forgot, has long black hair, a large scar on one of her elbows, and several other scars on her face, and has been subject to running away ever since she was ten years old. I have great reason to think she will pass for a free woman, and endeavour to make into South Carolina. She is very knowing about house business, can spin, weave, sew, and iron, well. She had on when she went away her winter clothing, also a blue and white striped Virginia cloth gown, a Virginia cloth coperas and white striped coat, besides others too tedious to mention. Whoever conveys the said slave to me shall be well rewarded for their trouble.
--- October 20, 1768, The Virginia Gazette
::: posted by tom at 4:18 PM
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