Comments on: Pacem in Terris

By: zeno

zeno — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:10:53 +0000

Thanks Taylor. I think that the difficult circumstances that Jerry was referring to was warfare and especially the Vietnam war. Today more women and probably more gays/queers are serving in the military, and face warfare up close.

Personally, I hope that violent warfare will become an archaic practice within a few generations (along with the abolition of absolute poverty.)

Of course, I am not trying to answer for Jerry.

By: Taylor Brook

Taylor Brook — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:14:49 +0000

hi Jerry et al,

sorry to take so long to check back on this… if you are still interested, what I was offended by was the part about how heterosexual men having a particular way of binding together from hard times. I may be too young to have had a reunion of this kind, but I have worked as a treeplanter in the northern Canada every spring/summer for the past six years and I would like to think that the females and homosexuals in the work camps with me were unable to experience the bonding from being together through some extremely tough times together. So, as a queer person I find it to be insulting.

By: zeno

zeno — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:31:08 +0000

Last week, I was strangely moved and positively provoked by Jerry’s final sentence.

His picture also immediately made me think of this dissimilar artist video fragment from a longer video work by Guido Van der Werve; which I didn’t want to link to last week as it would have distracted from the original post.

Several of you who watch videos might have already seen this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J58WGm0Wibo&feature=related

Happy New Year.

By: Jerry Bowles

Jerry Bowles — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:12:06 +0000

Offending people is one of my best things. Why else would I have a blog? Actually, I can’t look at that picture without thinking of Rautavarra or John Luther Adams or even Ralph Vaughan Williams so it does have some musical connection for me. Obviously, you’re too young to have attended a reunion of guys who tromped through the frozen, deadly Ardennes together or held the line at Khe Sahn. I’m trying to figure out which part offended you–the simple observation that men bond strongly under extreme conditions–or the possible implication that hetrosexual-style male love (which I’m sure many gay men also experience) has a purity that isn’t conflicted by thepolitics of male-female and male-male sexual relationships? Maybe I’ll start a sociology blog. In any event, if you want to read something truly offensive, try the first and final paragraph of this little epic I wrote a few months ago for my political blog. http://bit.ly/535jQI

By: Steve Layton

Steve Layton — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:35:44 +0000

You seem to be in good company, Taylor:

http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/413647_morford27.html

By: Taylor Brook

Taylor Brook — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:54:53 +0000

Hmmm… I must say I find this last sentence offensive.

Besides, how does this have anything to do with music?