Thursday, March 09, 2006

Purim @ Crossed-Currents



Brokeback Balabusta: On the Jews and their Movies

Filed by Toby Katz @ 8:18 pm
8 bAdar

Responding to my platonic friend Yitzchak Adlerstein’s post about that cowboy movie, some typical by-product of a clueless, mixed-race, public education sent me the following tasteless joke:

“What’s the big deal about this movie? I head three yungerleit from Telz were killed in the rush for tickets!”

Disgusting, and further proof that secular, Jewish, liberals are driving America down the tubes, despite the fact that Republicans have been in command of Congress for 12 years, and currently control all three branches of government.

Movies like Brokeback Mountain which degrade traditional cowboy values and glorify unconditional love make it very clear that we are a long way from the days when Hollywood could be counted on to make fine, moral movies like Bambi and Birth of a Nation.


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29 comments:

Phillip Minden said...

Given the preoccupation with this topic, the blog might be called straight-currents.

DovBear said...

Or Cross-Loving Currents

Elie said...

This one's a bit too mean-spirited for my tastes.

Anonymous said...

I don't think it's the meanest one. Others were cueler, and this one sticks pretty closely to an actual Toby Katz post. A lot of it is word for word.

If it sounds mean, it's probably because that's what Toby sounds like in real life. In other words, the parody was spot on.

Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) said...

WOW and i thought the DovBear one was bitter-sounding!

rockofgalilee said...

I don't think it's mean. I think it is in the purim spirit.
If you think it is mean you need another drink and then read it again.

Anonymous said...

I agree the DovBear one was nasty. This one just chokes Toby on her own words.

Anonymous said...

Where is the Hirhurim parody??

Anonymous said...

hirhurimpurim.blogspot.com

Elie said...

I don't think a good parody should be mean-spirited; it should be lovingly mocking and/or silly. If someone truly hates a given blog/blogger (as was obviously the case here) they should not be the one to parody him.

Chana said...

I disagree. The parody is bloody brilliant.

Spot on!

DovBear said...

It help if you are familair with the source material, I think.

http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/03/05/who-is-hollywoods-audience/

Elie said...

Of course taste in humor, as any other taste, is utterly subjective ("de gustibus" and all that), so it's pointless arguing further on this. Sorry to have started it.

I thought I'd get at least one "me too" though.

Ezzie said...

I didn't think it was *so* mean... then again, I didn't think the DB one was mean either. Gotta love the upside down JIB on this one - in general, the little sidebar and profile changes on all the parodies are actually as funny as the posts IMO.

Jameel @ The Muqata said...

Hi All -

I don't think this was too meanspirited. I read all the blogs for content, and didn't think this was too off the wall.

Many more blogs to come...on motzei shabbat or Sunday.

NONE tomorrow. Trust me. The Mrs. @ The Muqata would kill me if I worked on this on Friday...

The only thing worse than blogging on Friday..is blogging on Friday after candle-lighting when I should be showering.

Anonymous said...

This one was fine, because it was funny. The Chardal on is not fine, because it isn't funny, and because it plainly was written by someone who hates DovBear.

Jameel @ The Muqata said...

anonymous - see my comment on chardal's site.

It was a parody of Chardal!

elf said...

LOL! Sorry, I guess I'm a little bit mean-spirited myself sometimes, but I thought these posts were hysterical. I was also amused by the fact that it's impossible to comment on the site.

Lemme guess... DovBear?

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