Well played, PO’G!! Sturm und Drang incorporated “individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements” in the 1760’s. (Wikipedia)
I also sense/infer, perhaps erroneously, a subliminal message in the photo being in black and white and not color. ???? Stark contrasts …. or simply so many shades of gray? 🙂
Or simply too much coffee this AM on my part? 🙂
Shucks, fellers, I was just trying to be funny. The “Sturm und Drain” gag came to me after I shot the pic, not before.
But I wonder now whether the cross-dressing character Klinger in “MASH” was a tribute to dramatist and novelist Friedrich von Klinger, who wrote the 1776 play that gave the name to the “Sturm und Drang” literary movement, which Merriam-Webster says often dealt with “an individual rebelling against the injustices of society.”
I raised my IQ 10 points just by following this thread. If it gets any more literate I’m gonna demand that I get an honorary Masters from my alma mater. It’s the least they could do after sending them my kids to financially plunder as they did me. For chrissakes how is it I got through all those classes without having a clue about Sturms and Drangs running around as they were and are.
I ain’t any more smarterer than you, Herb old master. I just got an attic fulla data and every now and then I stick bits and pieces together like Legos and if I get lucky it comes out looking like sumpin’.
Just finished Kevin Nealon’s portrait book where he often talks about the writers at SNL. Man, they could have used you POG when they ruled the comedy/social forest. Likely you would have ended up in skits on camera as well.
That would’ve been interesting, hey? Hellish, too. A high-powered comic collaboration on a hot mess that had to be funny every Saturday or else.
First you had to make yourself laugh, then the other writers, then Lorne, then the actors, the audience, and the critics, those sonsabitches. Oof. Moving pianos looks like light work by comparison.
Plus, you pretty much gotta live in Noo Yawk or take the train in from out of town, amirite? I think I was probably better off in my tiny little goldfish bowl instead of swimming with those big-ass sharks.
I always got Sturm and Drang mixed up with Hammer and Tongs. Or was it Crockett and Tubbs? Peaches and Herb? Sunny and Share? Lime and the Coconut? Poncho and Lefty? It’s all one big blur at this point.
Frankburger and Hamfurter was on the long, long list of made-up band names that made up our self-entertainment on multi-day road trips, back when cell phones seemed about as likely as tricorders to ever actually happen.
The quick research into Friedrich von Klinger is fascinating. It would be interesting if that was the intent of one of the original MASH creators. Thanks for kicking over the can of intelligencia so that JD and you smarter others may shower upon us lesser thinkers. But if you would next time, could you let me know ahead of time so that I can clean my gutters out first and not get flushed with the stagnant detritus water that’s been stewing in them for the last few months.
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Well played, PO’G!! Sturm und Drang incorporated “individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements” in the 1760’s. (Wikipedia)
I also sense/infer, perhaps erroneously, a subliminal message in the photo being in black and white and not color. ???? Stark contrasts …. or simply so many shades of gray? 🙂
Or simply too much coffee this AM on my part? 🙂
I think JD is on to something. We have a black and white choice, heh?
Shucks, fellers, I was just trying to be funny. The “Sturm und Drain” gag came to me after I shot the pic, not before.
But I wonder now whether the cross-dressing character Klinger in “MASH” was a tribute to dramatist and novelist Friedrich von Klinger, who wrote the 1776 play that gave the name to the “Sturm und Drang” literary movement, which Merriam-Webster says often dealt with “an individual rebelling against the injustices of society.”
I raised my IQ 10 points just by following this thread. If it gets any more literate I’m gonna demand that I get an honorary Masters from my alma mater. It’s the least they could do after sending them my kids to financially plunder as they did me. For chrissakes how is it I got through all those classes without having a clue about Sturms and Drangs running around as they were and are.
I ain’t any more smarterer than you, Herb old master. I just got an attic fulla data and every now and then I stick bits and pieces together like Legos and if I get lucky it comes out looking like sumpin’.
Just finished Kevin Nealon’s portrait book where he often talks about the writers at SNL. Man, they could have used you POG when they ruled the comedy/social forest. Likely you would have ended up in skits on camera as well.
Ain’t that the truth! I still think there is a stand up comedy genius locked up in his little grey cells.
I guess my black and white pun didn’t land.
That would’ve been interesting, hey? Hellish, too. A high-powered comic collaboration on a hot mess that had to be funny every Saturday or else.
First you had to make yourself laugh, then the other writers, then Lorne, then the actors, the audience, and the critics, those sonsabitches. Oof. Moving pianos looks like light work by comparison.
Plus, you pretty much gotta live in Noo Yawk or take the train in from out of town, amirite? I think I was probably better off in my tiny little goldfish bowl instead of swimming with those big-ass sharks.
I always got Sturm and Drang mixed up with Hammer and Tongs. Or was it Crockett and Tubbs? Peaches and Herb? Sunny and Share? Lime and the Coconut? Poncho and Lefty? It’s all one big blur at this point.
Cheech und Chong? Lucy und Desi? Abbott und Costello? Frank und Furter?
Frankburger and Hamfurter was on the long, long list of made-up band names that made up our self-entertainment on multi-day road trips, back when cell phones seemed about as likely as tricorders to ever actually happen.
Just so your gotterdammer roof doesn’t leak.
“When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak. When it do, you cain’t fix it nowhow.” — Billy-Bob Sartre.
The quick research into Friedrich von Klinger is fascinating. It would be interesting if that was the intent of one of the original MASH creators. Thanks for kicking over the can of intelligencia so that JD and you smarter others may shower upon us lesser thinkers. But if you would next time, could you let me know ahead of time so that I can clean my gutters out first and not get flushed with the stagnant detritus water that’s been stewing in them for the last few months.