The Ashcan

The Morning Dump: religion, reviewing and real people

Posted on 24. Apr, 2010 by theashcan in Morning Dump

• So maybe I’m just really 2006 over here, but I thought this week’s story about South Park using the ol’ blocks and bleeps to censor an episode depicting the Prophet Muhammad was going to generate more discussion. Because isn’t this the first big indicator of the long-term pop culture effects of that Danish cartoon scandal? So what jumped the shark here – free speech and religion as a topic for passionate debate, or South Park’s cultural cache? Maybe everyone is just in agreement with Lindsday Robertson, who says, all debates aside, South Park is run by two gigantic assholes. Possible! Baseketball, anyone? -jc

• I gave your brain a break last week with the hipster list, but this time I’m going one step further and linking you to a video! Be warned though; at some Twitter conference Christopher Weingarten (a.k.a. @1000timesyes, a.k.a. the guy who reviewed 1000 records via 140-character tweets in a year) spews an expletive-laden rant on the future of music criticism (i.e. the post-music criticism era). It’s good stuff, worthy of the highbrow shit we tend to post here on the ‘Dump. Except for last week’s hipster list. -am

• See this is what happens, when we sign off on our contributions to this weekly link round-up: you see that some weeks it’s everyone, some weeks it’s not. Anyway, I’m gonna leave it off on a tender note: the internet is made of real people. Props to Rafi for tweeting this! -am

• Breaking news: I have bad memory. Further breaking news: Leah McLaren wrote an op-ed about the responsibility of being appropriately smug and entitled. I really don’t have much more to add. You just can’t make this stuff up. -sy

Tags: censorship, Internet, Music, music criticism, Muslims, Prophet Muhammad, South Park, Twitter