Sympathy for the Ball Slasher
Below is video footage from last Wednesday’s “Paul Lundgren Happy Hour” at Teatro Zuccone. As a primer for the video, you might want to read my latest column.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ewHHyibbU
Props to Dean Vogtman and Dan Fitzpatrick, videographers extraordinaire.
Quotes pulled from paullundgren.com:
“acclaimed newspaper columnist”
“infamous newspaper columnist”
Are these statements tongue-in-cheek?
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“Arrowhead Regional Arts Council” grantee:
The art of self-promotion?
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Does anyone find this man humorous or entertaining?
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Isn’t the ball-slasher story quite old by now?
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Is it just me?
Oh snap, the jig is up!
Paul,
Thanks. Great show. Fun & funny. Rachel was right on too. Looking forward to the other shows.
@ BeeJ, the answers to your questions:
1. Definitely. Anything else wouldn’t be Paul Lundgren.
2. Perhaps. How often do you big up your work?
3. Of course! He’s a riot! I’ve been reading Paul’s work (both professional and otherwise) for quite some time.
4. Sure it is, but what the hell, right? I mean, if Leno can keep telling the same jokes over and over, why can’t everyone else, right?
5. Yeah. It *is* just you.
You know those plastic sheets of packaging bubbles and how addicting they are to pop? I gather the ball slasher graduated from those. Those bubbles should be labeled a gateway fetish and regulated like porn and pills.
Mother’s milk leads to everything. It’s the original gateway drug.
Not only is he funny…he’s a very nice man.