Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The Morning Matinee: "Remember mediocrity is not a mortal sin. "



Some people still sing this song.  It never gets old. Some people still live it.  Rebel Girl thinks she saw some folks dancing it just the other day.  It's catchy.  And so self-serving.

Brotherhood of Man 
IVC Prez Roquemore

Now, you may join the Elks, my friend,
And I may join the Shriners;
And other men may carry cards
As members of the Diners.

Still others wear a golden key
Or small Greek letter pin;
But I have learned there's one great club
That all of us are in.

There is a Brotherhood of Man,
A Benevolent Brotherhood of Man,
A noble tie that binds
All human hearts and minds
Into one Brotherhood of Man....


Your lifelong membership is free.
Keep agivin' each brother all you can.
Oh aren't you proud to be
In that fraternity,
The great big Brotherhood of Man?


Mad Men devotees, check out Robert Morse (aka Bertram Cooper) here - and in the rest of the film.  As a professor pointed out, there's some serious  intertextuality (sp?) going on.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is that an aged Rudy Vallee?

Anonymous said...

Very funny! Guys in suits!

Anonymous said...

Check out the recent email about Inside IVC Forums to increase communication. What I like best is the "civility" forum which seems to be managed by someone whose management "style" is often not very civil but is tolerated because he's just "one of the guys and that's how guys are." So he can be bombastic and sexist and it's all good (or it's all in "jest." Can't you take a joke little lady?). And now he is the manager of the civility forum - great.

Anonymous said...

More incompetence: I clicked on the link to the "forums" in that email and I was taken to a page that seemed to have nothing to do with forums. I could find nothing that might direct me to any forums. Good grief. I really wanted to read what people have been saying, too!

Anonymous said...

I tired to follow the link and directions but found it confusing. Not every committee or task force has a forum. The few who do seem to just have documents posted or questions hanging in the air. Karima asked a question back in early April and no one has answered her yet. It's strange. Sort of like a bulletin board on an abandoned planet.

Anonymous said...

The last post in the SLO forum was last September by Kate Clark.

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