Happy Independence Day, blog readers! And to Emil Franzi: Happy Birthday, you Yankee Doodle Dandy, you!
A few events to consider checking out today:
• The Loft Cinema is presenting the Team America: World Police Sing-a-Long tonight at 6 p.m. Plus, cold beer and hot dogs on the patio before the show! A mere $5.
• The Tucson Sidewinders are back in town! The Triple-A champs wrap up the first half of the season with a five-game homestand against the Las Vegas 51s beginning tonight. After the game, the ’Winders will present a star-spangled fireworks show. What could be more American than that?
Tomorrow is buck-beer night out at Tucson Electric Park, while Friday will feature a bonus fireworks show if you don’t get your fill tonight. On Saturday, they’ll be giving away beach towels and on Sunday, hot dogs are a mere dollar.
Go see the Sidewinders–while you can!
This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2007.
I had mixed feelings about “Team America” until the scene with the kitten attack. Then I had to like it.
AMERICA….HECK YEAH!
(well…you know…)
Oh, by the way …. What IS Emil Franzi? Why does he exist?
To be halfway sarcastic, Emil Franzi is a person currently occupied as a talk radio media person and also a columnist for the Explorer. He previously was a prolific writer for the Tucson Weekly.
By his own definition, he is politically “center-right”, or a right-leaning centrist (source: http://www.explorernews.com/article/show/19332 ).
I think Emil Franzi needs to answer for his political stance. “Center-right,” what the hell is that? Can’t make up your mind if you’re a conservative or libertarian or whatever?
I like Emil Franzi based on the sound of his name alone. I like calling him “Franzi” because it sounds like a term of endearment, like “Mumsy” or “Pookie.” I am not sure what kind of name is “Emil” but it sounds like “email” and thus makes his entire name sound like a folksy verb clause.
I would like to sit Emil down and buy him a beer and pick his brain. I want him to tell me the answers to all the political problems in our little world. We all want answers and everybody seems to pose like they have them at their fingertips if only others would listen.
The reality is that most of the major problems facing society will exist for generations. We will talk and talk and analyze them, but we will be dead long before any important changes occur. Some day the immigration problem will be solved, but by then our bones in our coffins will be in powder form and worms will have feasted upon our bloated entrails.
So I want to buy Emil Franzi several ice-cold Coronas that clink together and leave circular sweat marks on the counter-top. We’ll shove lemon wedges down their bottlenecks and take swigs of delicious tangy Mexican beer between our Socratic Q and A.
Emil Franzi, who the hell are you, and why do you communicate your gigantic-craniumed ideology to the Tucson masses? To what end does this activity occur? What enlightenement are you attempting to transmit to our limited minds? What makes you such an expert?
Emil Franzi, happy birthday to you and your endearing persona. I want to hang out with you and drink beer. I want to ask you what in the hell “Center-Right” means, and how long it took you to diagram that precise political measurement on your Map of Political Location.
Emil Franzi, why does your name sound like Fancy. Emil Franzi, why are you such a Nancy?
Emil — reveal. Tell us something that is real.
I would say that the political definition “Center-Right” is decently defined by Franzi himself in the column I posted a link to. Basically, it means that in a nation that increasingly polarizes itself, a centrist does not align with all of the beliefs of any side of the spectrum. Someone who is center-right has moderate or centrist ideals that lean right.
I cannot speak for Mr. Franzi, but that’s how I would see it.
Give the World’s Smallest Political Quiz a spin and see how you fit in: http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html