A friend of mine sent me this and I think it pretty much perfectly enfolds the whole Kramer-nigger thing that happened a few weeks ago:
While you’re at it, check out this more recent video of Pauly Shore being punched onstage at a comedy club in Texas. All of this stuff has the wretched stink of viral marketing and some kind of weird new method of media hybridization.
Although perhaps this quote I found yesterday sums up where all this is going:
In his remarkable 1990 novel Earth, science fiction writer David Brin writes about a surveillance technology that the oldtimers (aka baby boomers) used in most public places. Tru-Vu goggles were worn rather than conventional sunglasses; everything the Tru-Vu goggles saw was recorded for later use in court, if necessary
Also see my predictions for media in the future from a few weeks ago as well.
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http://prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/041206racistrant.htm
viral………much like mel gibson`s hissy fit on the highway. publicity is what it is.
and now that i`ve watched the clip for the first time i`m more convinced it was a contrivance.
Maybe another hint:
“The Scottish Rite Freemasons, on the cover of the September 2000 issue of their official journal, recognized “Brother Michael A. Richards” as a “Renaissance Man, Not Kramer.” Richards, a Jew, is the well known comic actor who won raves for his role as “Kramer” in the long-running #1 hit TV show, Seinfeld. Inside the Masonic Lodge magazine, it was noted that Richards holds the 32nd degree of Freemasonry and has received the red cap.
Richards says he is a keen student of Masonry and its symbolism and has over 1,000 masonic books in his home in California…”
H. Lewis, I’m removing your comment as it is an advertisement rather than an addition to the conversation. If you want to join in the conversation, please respond to us directly, not with a press release!
Nuin, I’m tentative to give the “Masonic Conspiracy” angle much air-time as there are simpler more direct explanations I think. Nevermind that I remain unconvinced the Masons are “bad”
The Pauly Shore bit was actually a set up… a bit of Google-fu will give you the details, but it was pre-arranged. The Richards thing, to me, seemed to be somebody trying to shut down some hecklers, and not having the ability to do it, and then losing it. Richards background is improv, not standup - and shutting down a heckler is a bit of an aquired art.
Don’t buy it. The dude’s at this point a professional. He’s been around forever. He knows what he’s doing.
Yeah, there’s always this that Michael Richards was involved in back in the day. Don’t know if he was in on the joke, but I’ve heard that before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkbjvUAdKBc
Freakin weird man
Those Tru-Vu goggles sound like something straight out of Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, although that was released years later, and over a span of five years. Quite the dystopian yet hilarious and moving comic series.
Speaking of old dystopian sci-fi: I watched the British movie version of Max Headroom last night and all I can say is - amazing. That blew my mind! Why don’t they make dystopian sci-fi like that any more?
a little monty python goes a long way……………