Sinister: random thoughts/fraggles

[The Trainspotter]

no no you are wrong.  I've watched all the episodes loads of times.  and
there is one episode where the fraggles think it's cruel to eat the
doozers buildings so they stop and the doozers can't build anymore and
become depressed because they live to build and so the fraggles reaslise
they are helping the doozers by eating the buildings.  oh, though... so
you are now close I realise - marxist critique of capitalism, and all that
guff... I'm going to watch telly now, drink red wine, and mind the brain.

-teri


http://hampshire.edu/~tdzF94/ -  Inspired by the writings of the 
eighteeth century Venetian gambler, eroticist and spy.

"The day didn't go too well. Too many chocolates and cigarettes, I kept
thinking of you and almost walking into lampposts." Pulp

"and the times that we all hoped would last,
like a train they have gone by so fast
and though we stood together on the edge of the platform,
we were not moved by them"

On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Suzanne Schroeder wrote:

> I thin maybe the overpriced japanese dog on wheels release could mean they
> only gave the country so many albums.  I don;t know. Since I'm in the
> United States, had no problem finding the album, and don't work anywhere
> near a record label, my thoughts are probably invalid.
> 
> As much as I used to like the fraggles, I realized one day (I can't
> remember when, but definitely a few years ago) that the doozers are
> definitely a racist metaphor.  Or, if we want to go tame, the bourgeois
> fraggles turn their nose up at the underpaid workers.  Occasionally, the
> doozers show that they "are people too with a heart of gold" by helping out
> a poor trapped fraggle.
> 
> Not that I stopped watching it for that reason.  I find it boring these
> days, anyway.
> 
> Why do I bring this up?  I finished watching Robin Hood, Prince of Dweebs
> for the 1st time in 5 years with the benefit of having one too many
> cultural studies courses. So, I'm going off on a tangent....just for the
> heck of it.
> 
> You know what I'm talking about.  The movie or TV show that tries to show
> how enlightened it is by bringing the token black character on and saying
> "gee.....youre a minority but you're just like everyone else" and everyone
> wipes a tear away and we all barf, the end.  It basically presents said
> character in very stereotypical fashion.  For example, Azeem in Robin Hood
> is basically the wise old fatherly black man whose only worth in the film
> is protecting Kevin Costner and all the poor white families.  Sort of like
> what turn of the century films such as "birth of a nation" that presented
> blacks in 2 forms.  Either the loyal servant or the evil rebel.  On the
> same token, doozers are about the same.  They're evil unless they're of use
> to the fraggles, then mystically they are just like "everyone else."
> 
> Then again, this is all coming from someone who generally regards Walt
> Disney films as some of the most racist, sexist, and stereotypical of any
> film out there, yet they get the aura of being harmless family movies just
> because our parents grew up with them.  Especailly some of the later ones
> like Jungle to Jungle, or like Mighty ducks type movies where they've
> always got the fat kid running around saying "I'm hungry!"  and its funny
> because, hey, its a fat kid and boy that fat kid can eat.  
> 
> s.s.
> 
> ...the culturally sensitive one.....
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