Beautifully written, funny and sad at the same time. Mostly funny. Your delivery is good, but you elide some syllables and some of the sounds bump into each other before they fall out of your mouth. If I may be so bold to speak for other listeners, I daresay your audiences want more!
In 35 hours of taping conversations with Dimitri, Lu Olkowski never hears him speak ill of the addicts he's trying to help. It's a phenomenal piece of editing and narration, which not only distills 35 hours into 16 minutes, but does it in unfalteringly clear tones. This story has a quality that brings compassion for addicts right down to its aching roots, and Dimitri, a wounded healer himself, is its heart. It's a profoundly spiritual story, probably because it's not trying to be.
I lived 6 miles from Moroni, Utah, for almost ten years. Scott Carrier didn't mention directly how far removed these agri-business turkeys are from their wild cousins, genetically speaking. He does suggest one of the effects of genetic modification: an inverse relation between intelligence and rapid weight gain.
Mr. Carrier has a wonderful way of telling stories that seem to happen the way life happens. This one moves from the humor in the grower's observation about turkeys' suicidal nature to the robotic tone of the personnel director / tour guide. The sound of the turkeys' air cavities being sucked out hit a gut-level reflex of creature feeling, even though the birds are dead by then. And, my god, the machine that could be the name of a super-hero: The Eviscerator! And to finish with the lite-muzak at Dan's food store and Carrier's own fade-out left me pondering just what it is we Americans have to be thankful for--besides our own increasing capacities for rapid weight gain.
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Creighton King
Posted on May 23, 2009 at 12:32 PM | Permalink
A Raisin on the Plate at Applebee's
Beautifully written, funny and sad at the same time. Mostly funny. Your delivery is good, but you elide some syllables and some of the sounds bump into each other before they fall out of your mouth. If I may be so bold to speak for other listeners, I daresay your audiences want more!
Comment for "I'm Not a Doctor, but I Play One at the Holiday Inn"
Creighton King
Posted on June 17, 2007 at 08:23 AM | Permalink
Review of I'm Not a Doctor, but I Play One at the Holiday Inn
In 35 hours of taping conversations with Dimitri, Lu Olkowski never hears him speak ill of the addicts he's trying to help. It's a phenomenal piece of editing and narration, which not only distills 35 hours into 16 minutes, but does it in unfalteringly clear tones. This story has a quality that brings compassion for addicts right down to its aching roots, and Dimitri, a wounded healer himself, is its heart. It's a profoundly spiritual story, probably because it's not trying to be.
Comment for "Turkeys"
Creighton King
Posted on June 15, 2007 at 10:17 PM | Permalink
Review of Turkeys
I lived 6 miles from Moroni, Utah, for almost ten years. Scott Carrier didn't mention directly how far removed these agri-business turkeys are from their wild cousins, genetically speaking. He does suggest one of the effects of genetic modification: an inverse relation between intelligence and rapid weight gain.
Mr. Carrier has a wonderful way of telling stories that seem to happen the way life happens. This one moves from the humor in the grower's observation about turkeys' suicidal nature to the robotic tone of the personnel director / tour guide. The sound of the turkeys' air cavities being sucked out hit a gut-level reflex of creature feeling, even though the birds are dead by then. And, my god, the machine that could be the name of a super-hero: The Eviscerator! And to finish with the lite-muzak at Dan's food store and Carrier's own fade-out left me pondering just what it is we Americans have to be thankful for--besides our own increasing capacities for rapid weight gain.