| EastWesterly
Review
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The Mainly Annual
EastWesterly Review/Postmodern Village
18th Annual Conference
 Willie
Loman and the Ayurvedic Power of Being Well (but not Well Liked)
by Art Weiller
Attention must finally be paid to Weiller’s
counter-example of Miller’s (in)famous (anti)heroic everyman.
The balance, calm, poise, represented by Uncle Charley is certainly
admirable in these days of uncontrollable market fluctuations,
but Charleying as therapeutic practice seems a bridge-pose too
far. The Hap Loman Sutra provided a comic coda, though, but
the flute music throughout was a bit of a distraction. |
 The
Guiding Price: Market Valuation, the GDP, and Soap Operonomics:
a Convolution
by Luke N. Laura
As soap operas collapse due to lack of perceived
economic viability, perhaps a grand substitution is underway:
replacement of the intentional complexities of plotting that
are soaps with the intentional convolution of intent that is
the stock market. Who needs the fictive machinations of Victor
Newman when you can have the real machinations of Goldman Sachs? |
 Hercules
Monochrome: The Fanfic Scene – or Mythology as Meta-For,
a Reific Desperation
by Joseph “wolvereen23” Campleton-Lucas
So it has come to this: an amateur online adaptation
of our foundational mythology compounded with fantasy wish-fulfillment,
purple prose, poor usage, questionable punctuation, and a melodramatic
flair? While we enjoyed the Xtranormal animations of these tales,
we believe that tradition deserves at least a modicum of respect.
Sometimes folkways are best not left up to just any-old folks.
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 Fellinnious
Monk: Jazz, Cinema, Meditation and the Avant-garde, a Concert
in Three Reels
by Lady Rothsphere Messina
Messina’s entrancing presentation combined
surreal autobiographical imagery with contemplative space and
masterful keyboarding in a way that made us want to vow silence
and retreat from the rest of the conference. But the constant
improvisation made us lose track of the theme. After 8½
hours things finally wrapped up ‘round midnight, but no
matter how sweet the life represented, it still left our satyrical
spirits feeling light blue.
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 The
Erectrick Company: Physical Precocity, Infantalization, and
“The Talk,” a Primer for the Disengaged
by Dr. Drew Elders-Comfort, MD
If it looks like kids are getting older and older
younger and younger, Elders-Comfort has an explanation. If that
makes you narratologically uncomfortable, he’s got a solution:
apply where they are physically to where they are emotionally
with a little help from the CTW. But then, we always really
learned it in the streets?now it’s just Sexame Street. |
 Hacktaters:
Spuds, Surfers, Inertia and the Hacker Code?or How the Preference
Not to has Led to Online Oblivion
by 
The redacted author just e-mailed in his/her
presentation as a worm that infected the laptop we had set up
for the occasion, which immediately crashed, restarted and began
downloading some type of Inuit-only ethnic porn. But hey, he/she
did it all without ever leaving his/her parents' basement. So
there's that. |
Papers, Part 2
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