Kabuki Warriors
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
That debate at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, was no town hall meeting. It was highly ritualized Kabuki Theater. To begin with, instead of just letting the first 5,000 people to show up into the Curb Event Center and taking questions from the audience at random, The Gallup Organization hand-picked 80 uncommitted voters from the Nashville [...]
Comic Book Conventions.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Neil Gaiman ( Eternals ) signs at the Sundance Kabuki Theater on October 5th. Read more...
Gift Hub (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Lovely to hear the sound of these voices: reality amidst all the spin. Friends talking to friends about the "kabuki theater" of government oversight as tax payer money is funneled to those who need it and those who may not,...
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Cross-dressing performers, you say? Well, in Japan that's not necessarily scandalous -- Kabuki theatre has been featuring such gender-bending activity since its origin in 1603. The Takarazuka Revue is a Japanese musical theatre troupe that performs mostly lavish Western-style productions, with a sprinkling of originals, manga and novel adaptions. Come next February, they will take on the Phoenix Wright...
Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
For whatever reason, lately we've been noticing the lighting in commercial environments here in San Francisco. Maybe because, uhm, the majority are pretty decent? While the entire remodel of the Kab
The Duck of Minerva (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Oh, goody. Another celebrity interview . Bored now.
Vegas File (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Two dynamic shows have opened in Vegas — one is music, the other magic. “Hitzville” is a Motown revue loaded with talent led by Jin-Jin Reeves. “Magic at the Edge” stars Jeff McBride, an extraordinary entertainer who mixes magic and Kabuki theater in a no-frills production that will amaze you. Source: www.lasvegassun.com
The Duck of Minerva (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The convention is so much kabuki theater, but a few minutes ago the Democrats nominated the first African-American major-party candidate for President of the United States... on a motion by a woman who nearly became the first female major-party candidate for President of the United States. I think we can all agree that, whatever our politics, this is a pretty amazing day in the history of the United...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
To paraphrase this week's keynote speaker Matthew Perry, could this convention be any better for Republicans? For a relatively low investment, they're getting about half the coverage here —all of it on the Clinton-Obama divide. But as you can see above, the Hillary dead-enders are barely even here . A lone person (I thought male, then I heard a larynx make noises I couldn't ID) with a giant Hillary...
BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
I know it's idle speculation, but it sure explains a lot. Could it all be kabuki theatre ? _____________________________________ The NC Family Policy Council doesn't speak for my family
Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Marc Ambinder dutifully reports that the ordinary kabuki theater of the Democratic convention will now include an extra layer of double-secret kabuki theater so Clinton supporters will feel better about themselves. Jeff Jarvis is right: journalists and their employers must end the farce now. The conventions now only exist to feed the fantasies of political reporters who dream of a “brokered...
Blue Girl, Red State (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
The House Oversight Committee uncovered some tasty little nuggets while investigating the cover-up surrounding the death of Pat Tillman and the Kabuki theater that was the Jessica Lynch rescue . If the media is so damned "liberal" why was Ron Fournier of the Associated Press sending Karl Rove encouraging messages and telling him to "keep up the fight" when he was lying to Americans about Lynch and...
2parse/blog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Finally right-wingers and left-wingers are starting to agree about Obama. In a testament to the attention paid to the kabuki theater of the presidential campaign, the new meme spreading around the opinionsphere is that Obama is running hard to the right and “throwing under the bus” anyone who gets in his way. As Steve Marlsberg, the [...]
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
When Mark Rylance talks about the people who influenced his Tony-nominated performance in Broadway's Boeing-Boeing, he cites master actors such as Art Carney and Kabuki legend Ennosuke Ichikawa III.
Signal to Noise (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Senator Single Bullet Theory (R-Comcast) is not particularly satisfied with Lord Rog’s explanations for the Patriots video-taping ways and Matt Walsh’s revelations, and is already threatening a round of Congressional Kabuki Theater over the league’s anti-trust exemption, citing Goodell's “conflict of interest” in investigating a matter that involves one of his league’s franchises. I understand. [...]...
