regarding the olympics and hot bods:
ROBERT LIPSYTE, rolipsyte@aol.com, http://robertlipsyte.com
"Jock Culture" correspondent for Tomdispatch.com, Lipsyte is author of several books on sports, most recently "Yellow Flag," a novel about stock car racing. He said today: "The focus has unfairly been upon China rather than the true Evil Empire, the Olympic Nation-State, which from the beginning (the all-male, naked Greek games) has been political and commercial, and since the 1896 Revival has traded in on the worst kind of nationalism, from fascism to Communism to Global corporatism, to keep its monopoly alive. But because it is a great festival of youth and beauty, I am going to watch every minute as a soft-porn show of great bodies at peak performance."
(discuss amongst yourselves, i've got some work to do...but i'll check in later)
regarding the olympics and hot bods:
ROBERT LIPSYTE, rolipsyte@aol.com, http://robertlipsyte.com
"Jock Culture" correspondent for Tomdispatch.com, Lipsyte is author of several books on sports, most recently "Yellow Flag," a novel about stock car racing. He said today: "The focus has unfairly been upon China rather than the true Evil Empire, the Olympic Nation-State, which from the beginning (the all-male, naked Greek games) has been political and commercial, and since the 1896 Revival has traded in on the worst kind of nationalism, from fascism to Communism to Global corporatism, to keep its monopoly alive. But because it is a great festival of youth and beauty, I am going to watch every minute as a soft-porn show of great bodies at peak performance."
(discuss amongst yourselves, i've got some work to do...but i'll check in later)
