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How Pleasant to Know Mr. Skinner (the musical version)

October 20th, 2014 · 3 Comments

At a recent reading/slideshow of selections from The Unknown Adjective, I performed a musical version of the last page.  Ralph Hamperian played the tuba.

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  • 1 Win // Oct 24, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    I was relieved to see you had nothing to do with this:

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/doug-loves-movies/id281816774?mt=2

    But perhaps a Doug Hates Movies series might be in order…?

  • 2 Doug // Oct 24, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    I haven’t seen a movie in years. I don’t like the bright screen, the manipulative music, the formulaic plots. I don’t like watching actors play make believe. But I don’t care if other people watch them; that’s their problem. Flann O’Brien put it well, in “The Third Policeman”:
    “Did you ever happen to visit the cinematograph in your travels?”
    “Never,” I answered humbly, “but I believe it is a dark quarter and little can be seen at all except the photographs on the wall.”

  • 3 mamie // Oct 30, 2014 at 11:28 am

    It IS pleasant to know Mr. Skinner!