Meta-Free-Phor-All: Shall I Nail Thee to a Summer’s Day?
March 23rd, 2009 § 1 Comment
‘Stephen has a metaphor for Sean Penn: Sean Penn is a big mean jerk, and Stephen hates him.’ A Colbert Report classic, with metaphors drawn from Shakespeare, Eliot, Frost to Star Trek.
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Sean Penn and Stephen Colbert each have their own category at my blog for their blows against empire.
If anyone comes across a video of Penn speaking at a memorial service for Rachel Corrie, and I don’t think there is one because he was at pains to state he wasn’t there as a celebrity or for celebrity but to speak as a father, try to save it, it was historic. That little speech dissolved me into a puddle on the floor. I’d been trying to take it standing up, but couldn’t hold up against it.
Everyone lauds Obama’s eloquence. Well. If Obama put the kind of content in that eloquence that Penn does, or Colbert does even in his comedy, this would be a much better world right away.