Comments on: Young People

By: Reclame Fotograaf

Reclame Fotograaf — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:12:58 +0000

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[...]Savannah Story Spinners | Bess Chappas | Storytelling & Children’s book writer in Savannah, Georgia[...]…

By: John & Crystal

John & Crystal — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:37:54 +0000

Excellent commentary, Bess … was just telling Crystal the other night about American Idol … what a “Vast Wasteland” of a show … screaming, yelling, jumping … compare these “reality acts” to the true talent of the Streisands, Sinatras and Tony Bennetts of our era … I list these stars in plural while many other performers of that time were just as startling … real talent vs. “marketing rage!” Don’t even get me started on today’s TV shows … think M*A*S*H, All in the Family, Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Lucy … and the list goes on … then compare to the “REALity trash” aired in PrimeTime that would insult the intelligence of a rock!!! To conclude … compare shows like ,”American Idol” , “Dancing with the Stars” and whatever other idiocy is coming down the pike from our Brainiacs in Hollywood … to, “The Ed Sullivan Show”! A, “really BIG Shoo”, they are NOT!!! Alas … as a line I remember from the old, “Honeymooners” TV show (yet another classic w/ Jackie Gleason!) … Ralph turns to Alice and quotes a famous saying … “It’s a shame that youth is wasted on the young.” With that said, I will bid you all a, “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” [from the series finale of M*A*S*H]

Sleepless in Savannah
The Farmaki Clan

By: BJ Abraham

BJ Abraham — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:55:17 +0000

loved your article and could so identify! my favorite part was about the “rifles” on the chest!!!

By: Cogger, Elizabeth

Cogger, Elizabeth — Mon, 09 May 2011 16:40:55 +0000

Ms. Chappas,

I am a few years away from 40 (not there quite yet….) and I feel EXACTLY the same way as you on the issue of the body art. “They will be sorry, someday” is all I can warn, when it comes to the tatoos. Those who have none not only seem more “cutting edge” than those that do, but we “older folk” know that they are also the smart ones!
The music, on the otherhand, is more of a cultural preference, I believe. Today’s “kids” see and hear a “standard” in popular music, and have “learned” that IT is the norm, the popular, the accepted form for those of their generation. I don’t get it either….HOWEVER, there are some “kids” who just have better taste (and smarts) than to forever mark their skin with the passing fad of the current decade!
Now, on the other topic of music, its important to remember I think that “American Idol” and Top 40 music isn’t every young person’s choice, thankfully, and some of the alternatives to that are not half bad. Politically charged, poetic, and sometimes even downright beautiful (in of course, a modern and twenty-first century sense). Culturally and socially, let’s remember that, to paraphrase another brilliant Greek, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”!