A recent controversy one may or may not wish to be in the middle of, the "retard" reference in the upcoming (end of this week) "Tropic Thunder", is one I actually do feel myself to be in the middle of. This has nothing to do with me being a retard. What I mean is, I am not a retard, besides which, with regard to those who are "retards", I believe in using different language, English of course, unless one isn't English, I have nothing against the French.
The person leading the protest against the use of the word "retard", Timothy Shriver, who is perhaps quite smart (a word occasionally used with a derisive inflection by the more stupid among us, who will often replace it with the insult, "intellectual"), is the brother of one of Rick Natkin's oldest friends. Rick Natkin was with me at Stuart "'Tropic Thunder' Producer" Cornfeld's house during the incident described in my "No. 1" August 10th blog about "Heard Shout-Outs".
I am long-accustomed to being some kind of news story missing link, or in direct relation to some kind of news story missing link, so this Tropic-Thunder-protest-leader's-brother-is- close-friend-of-person-I-encountered- in-relation-to-Tropic-Thunder-producer-in-1975 seems particularly un-random to me. It leads to thoughts of doing-it-to-generate-publicity-for-the- film, i.e., secret promotion. If one's mind "wanders" in this inevitable direction, one may then find of interest the fact that on Saturday, 8/9/08, I posted on YouTube my "Monk's Secret Promotion" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rw7PLpY_xY), the word promotion being used in the context of advertising.
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