#44: Larry's Parents and Grandparents

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 05:26:27 CDT 2009


> Mike B asks, Why would he bring Leo and Elmina in to just satirize them?

Why not?

If we can trust Aunt Reet, Larry's folks would like to see him married
(maybe to that Shasta) with children and living on a two acre suburban
lot in suburban California; if not a carbon copy of sibling Gilroy the
Kill Joy, than at least some kind of operatons manager:  Organization
Man.

"The Organization Man is one of the most influential books of the
twentieth century. It established the categories Americans now use
when thinking about the workplace, the suburbs, and their
lives."—David Brooks, senior editor at the Weekly Standard and
contributing editor at Newsweek

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/whyte-main.html

One reason they are brought in is to talk about TV and Film.  Don't
touch that dial.

Go to You Tube and type in:     I am the slime  . . .oooooozing along
on your living room floor.  --Zappa




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