The Fredösphere

Via Colby Cosh, this important lesson:  friends don't let friends play chess drunk. His Coshness also meditates on a major attraction of live entertainment, what he calls IWT, the I-Was-There factor:

For another example, consider the lucrative mini-theatres that superannuated musicians and comedians have colonized in Branson, Mo. Yakov Smirnoff and the Gatlin Brothers are still down there slugging away, god love 'em. I figure Branson is the future of entertainment, though it's disguised convincingly as the past. Without the IWT Factor, it's impossible to imagine why people would fill a theatre to see Bobby Vinton. Someday, every star may have his own personal theatre.

I'm certainly getting my own very soon. I hope you're checking PartiallyClips regularly. Wait!  Stop whatever part of the blogösphere that more or less corresponds to the presses!  Sensors indicate a religious art discussion is happening at The Evangelical Outpost.  Thomas Kinkade is being criticized!  Nicely!  C'mon, people, we want a sarcastic edge -- show some steel.  This is the way we like bad religious art handled around here. UPDATE: Don't miss more bloggy goodness on the Kinkade Kwestion in the following post.

Labels: VarietiesOfReligiousArt