Agree – But With A Difference (Jason Powers)

Agree – But With A Difference
Original: Like disagreeing, agreeing is less simple than it may appear। Just as you need to do more than simply echo views you agree with. Even as you’re disagreeing, it’s important to bring something new and fresh to the table, adding something that makes you a valuable participant in the conversation. ( They Say….61)

Dissing someone may seem a whole lot easier than giving props। Just as shouting back at someone that he’s straight up off the chain, you best give respect to a playa with capital P। When you give back respect, you can’t seem like a okie-dokie without a ball sack, cus people repect your ass more when you got your own playa thoughts.

John Updike: Beer Can
Updike’s satire of the improvement of the beer can’s change mechanism is colored with language of dressing up a rather ordinary item to mean a great deal more than it would for most. He puts you in the position of a beer drinker, the subtle sounds of the popping of the can the old way versus the new. Tragic the loss of the old way, the development, the march of human progress, is dismaying and Updike clear he’s not a fan. His word choice gives a 40-carat gold plating to the mediocrity than is an aluminum can – “A tranquil cylinder of delightfully resonant metal” to describe a beer can.
Powers: The baseball
An era has passed as the baseball gets bantered around for its marked improvement to the delight of hitters and the disdain of pitchers. Its elaborate positioning, between the mound-master and the sawdust-swinging plate guarder, is one that needs no introduction to the average afternoon fan base. The sonnets of old ring out when the cry of screaming liner pierces the sky, but now, as foretold by the baseball moguls, and their well-paid analysts, it behooves to change the nature of this orb, once again, to satisfy the bottom line. The fall of this revolving orb into a state of ordinariness will not cause many to cry out – if they be of feminine persuasion – their hopes are not made in their hubby’s obsession with a 3-hour tour of gladiator fights. Rather, the hope is the ball will be a ball again, and the game will be a game, once more.