Snoody New Yorkers

[alice wellintown]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uc3ZrmhDN4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0Uc3ZrmhDN4

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPfmNxKLDG4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEPfmNxKLDG4

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gNyHymEhZmg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgNyHymEhZmg

http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/07/16/trayvon-martin-and-the-american-muslim-perspective/


On Friday, September 20, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

> I think snood, not a perfect rhyme with hood, but it rhymes, as wind and
> kind rhyme,  as in the black kid in the hood, wearing the hood on his head,
> is suggested here and elsewhere in the narrative. You might get shot!  As
> in, What I Got, a pop hit, that resonates at the musical level with the
> Beatles, pop again with the hoodie kids, and takes off from Lady Madonna
> who wears, a snood.
>
> Dixon, in his wide wake brim would get the politics.
>
> In nyc, we got one turntable and a microphone. This ain't no Becking
> California story.
>
> On Thursday, September 19, 2013, Rev'd Seventy-Six wrote:
>
>> Going slower than everyone else, on account of job, art prod., & a
>> compulsion to read every word twice, so am only now at ch. 6.
>> Honestly, Pynchon and his snood fetish only gets more obscure as time
>> deserts us. Why is he so fixated on them? The humorous, childish sound
>> of the noun? The exoticism of a  period where a woman's hair was
>> considered intimate, erotic terrain, an element of self to be kept
>> chaste from the fingers of the wind? Or is it one of a grab-bag of
>> tropes he keeps near to hand, as a Prompt when he finds himself stuck
>> on how to write a passage?
>>
>> --
>> http://posthistoricpress.blogspot.com/
>>
>
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