It’s been a while since my last novel (The Tangled Stars came out in late 2022), but I’m pleased to say I’ll have a new novel out this summer. This one is a middle-grade/YA modern-day …
Last night, I had the privilege of performing one of my favourite Christmas songs, “O Holy Night,” for Westhill Park Baptist Church’s Christmas Eve service. And here’s my performance! I hope you enjoy it. Also, …
Andy Philp, host of The Philp Side on CJTR Community Radio here in Regina, asked me to record “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore (better known by it’s first line, “‘Twas the …
The Kickstarter to support three of the titles Shadowpaw Press is publishing this fal, two science fiction novels and one fantasy, funded at $1,805 of the $1,500 CDN goal. Thanks to everyone who kicked in! …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, turned to Crowdfundr to help ensure …
Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
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Gratuitous anti-Americanism
From The Globe and Mail:
Yes, as the tributes have insisted, Brando was indeed an American icon, but that cliché needs dusting off too, and then re-examined in all its paradoxical wonder. Because, ultimately, Marlon Brando seems as complex and as simple as the country that revered and reviled him — so perceptive and so provincial, so rebellious and so reactionary, so brilliantly endowed and so fatally flawed, such an inspiring tale of promise fulfilled and such a sad story of potential wasted.
So the U.S. is “fatally flawed” and “a sad story of potential wasted.” Typical of Rick Groen, which is why I always figure anything he likes, I’ll hate, and vice-versa. So far, this philosophy has not steered me wrong.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2004/07/gratuitous-anti-americanism/
