Since then, in the great high school known as big business, we have continually been made to feel like burn-outs in a world run by hall monitors. Thanks, you guys. Then Semisonic s Closing Time filled the room, and Lucia s fans, friends and former co-workers gathered onstage to hug and thank their fallen heroine. Now the only place they can hear her is at the Minnesota Historical Society s Sounds Good to Me exhibit, where Lucia has been interactively enshrined, along with the likes of Bill Diehl and Garrison Keillor, as a Minnesota broadcast pioneer. The museum s curators recognize not only Lucia s talent, but her worth as a singular personality and a pipeline to what makes Minnesota special, vibrant.
Revulsion is healthy.
Each of us has limits, unarticulated boundaries of taste and tolerance, and sometimes we forget where they are. Without sleaze, the yardstick shrinks at both ends. Team Rodent doesn t believe in sleaze, however, nor in old-fashioned revulsion. Square in the middle is where it wants us all to be, dependable consumers with predictable attitudes. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America s values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Co. and not the other way around.