The Clairvoyant Zoopraxiscope

Saw John Waters on TV in a mid-prandial rush to leave home this morning, speaking about a photography exhibit up at the New Museum. He commented that if you make a lot of people angry, that's usually a very good thing. Which of course is half true. There's good anger and bad anger, in relation to artistic response, in particular. If the anger is the anger of frustration, rage at someone's ignorance, that's bad anger. If the anger is the anger of upheaval, of resistance to thinking in a new way, that's good anger. Yessir.

Speaking of resistance, tried to get my beloved to say she would consent to watch Serial Mom with me. Her resistance? On a scale of 1 to 10? 18. What drove it up was a general tone of annoyance, mixed with the resistance. To think someone might not want to watch Serial Mom! To thunk!