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January 12, 2005

Wednesday Is Poetry Day

Here's something a little lighter, for this week. Plus it'll fit within two of my rubrics.

A quick google search revealed that Brittany Spears, besides being a fascinating singer/actress/entertainer/essayist/dancer/amateur physicist/skank, is also a poet. Brittany apparently contacted the proprietors of Tastes Like Chicken, and they agreed to publish some of her very own poetry. Here's a sample:


MOMMY, CAN YOU READ ME A BOOK?

Mommy, will you please read me this book?
It made no sense to me when I gave it a look
It's confusing and weird and it is very scary
I can't make out what it is saying to me... ah, Barry
Oh. I was trying to read a book of stamps.
Never mind.


That's beautiful. i think it, like, really gives us an insight into the close relationship between Brittany and her mom.

Go here to read some even better poems by Brittany.

Posted by annika, Jan. 12, 2005 |
Rubric: American Skankwomen & Poetry



Comments

There once was a hosehead named Spears,
Who studied Seuss, Rod McKuen, & King Lear,
Her quarter hour done
Before it'd even begun,
Now she opens for Carrot Top at Frontiers

Posted by: jeff on Jan. 12, 2005

Opening for Carrot-Top, one couldn't get any lower than that. Unless one opened for Pauly Shore, i guess.

Posted by: annika on Jan. 12, 2005

Many, many years ago, I flipped thru a book of gawd-awful poetry in a book store: Touch Me by Suzanne Somers. It's like comparing crap to shit, but I'd have to say Brittney's are a bit bitter. But 20+ years of trauma might have something to do with that.

Posted by: Victor and his seventeen pet rats on Jan. 13, 2005

A coquettish young harlot named Spears
wrote out her dreams and her fears
though it isn't quite verse,
what is clearly far worse
is that the memory will linger for years....

Posted by: Hugo on Jan. 13, 2005

She fancied herself a new Bard;
I say, it is not in the cards!
The young skank called Brit
Has curiously changing tits,
And viagra won't get her husband hard!

Posted by: Victor on Jan. 13, 2005


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• demonstrates hemp oil as an alternative lubricant to petroleum
• touts the benefits of pollution-free hydrogen fuel
• teaches school kids how to promote ecological awareness on television
• crusades for the conservation of endangered salmon
• stars in a music video about industrial pollution

There is also an intriguing interview with Captain Ozone at www.captainozone.com

Thank you,

Michael Schutte
Exc. Director
Environmental Media Northwest

Posted by: Environmental Media Northwest on Feb. 14, 2005