Philosophy
Guest post today from YKW:
My wife and I attended the U2 concert at FedEx Field last night with 80,000 other lucky souls and had a great time except ? every time we got up to dance the guy in the seats behind us yelled we should sit down. The first time he did that I turned around, smiled and exhorted him to ?stand up and dance!? since it was, after all, A FRIGGIN U2 CONCERT. About halfway through the concert (and we did not stand the whole time), I noticed the guy had left the seats behind me.
Normally, standing up and blocking the view of the people behind you is rude ? if you stood during the pitches of a baseball game, I think the people behind you would be correct in asking you to sit. Standing up when everyone in front of you are already standing makes sense, so you can see over them. But I think there?s a generally accepted dancing-at-a-rock-concert exception to the sitting down rule ? especially when the band plays one of their big numbers, and it is danceable, you?re SUPPOSED to be up and dancing, even in the upper deck of FedEx Field. Am I right?
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Philosophy
Stand and Deliver
Guest post today from YKW:
My wife and I attended the U2 concert at FedEx Field last night with 80,000 other lucky souls and had a great time except ? every time we got up to dance the guy in the seats behind us yelled we should sit down. The first time he did that I turned around, smiled and exhorted him to ?stand up and dance!? since it was, after all, A FRIGGIN U2 CONCERT. About halfway through the concert (and we did not stand the whole time), I noticed the guy had left the seats behind me.
Normally, standing up and blocking the view of the people behind you is rude ? if you stood during the pitches of a baseball game, I think the people behind you would be correct in asking you to sit. Standing up when everyone in front of you are already standing makes sense, so you can see over them. But I think there?s a generally accepted dancing-at-a-rock-concert exception to the sitting down rule ? especially when the band plays one of their big numbers, and it is danceable, you?re SUPPOSED to be up and dancing, even in the upper deck of FedEx Field. Am I right?
- Rip Greg Giraldo
My Fellow Comedists, This week we sadly lost Greg Giraldo. A New York lawyer turned stand-up, he was one of the few who managed to take a really, really hard life dedicated to an art and turn it into a straight job. A very smart writer with a rock solid...
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I got drafted to write a piece in the forthcoming Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy, so I've decided to start thinking about encores. The E Street Band is famous for two and three encore performances, with the encore being the length of other bands'...
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It is officially Grateful Dead day! At least it is in Ithaca, New York. Of the more than 3,000 shows the band played, the widely acknowledged best of them, the night the X factor went exponential was May 8, 1977 in a show at Cornell's Barton Hall...
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