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        RonPrice  79, Male, Canada - 60 entries
    12
    Feb 2012
    4:08 AM AEST
       

    BARBIE DOLL

    The popular doll, Barbie, artifact of female representation and identity, of depiction and posturing of women, has evoked a steady stream of critical attention since her debut in 1959.�� I have not been that conscious of this critical attention involved as I have been since 1959 with issues relating to my education, my career, my family and my religion. If millions of pre-pubescent girls have lived imaginatively and vicariously through Barbie this has not really concerned me.� The world is burgeoning with issues and this was one far removed from my flight path.� In 1959 I joined the Baha’i Faith and the agenda that has concerned me has only on rare occasions and only very peripherally involved the barbie doll. –Ron Price with thanks to “The Wonder of Barbie: Popular Culture and the Making of Female Identity,” Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal, Vol.4, No.1, January 2003.
    �
    The essence of feminine beauty
    is vigilance and artificiality.
    Men may be expected to enhance
    their appearance, but women are
    supposed to transform themselves.
    �
    Who is the fairest of them all.
    The mirror replies, “Before I
    answer that, may I suggest an
    alpha-hydroxy lotion?…this
    Revlon spray?…this lipstick?
    �
    Where have you been Barbie?
    You popped into my life when
    I visited those kids in Whyalla
    and when I went shopping more
    than usual between marriages.
    �
    Images of maleness were many
    and varied: my dad, grandfather,
    uncle, those westerns on TV back
    in the fifties and all those old chaps
    in Baha’i history--unquestionably--
    �
    subtlely, insinuating themselves into
    my imaginative faculty on cold
    Canadian evenings; Jim Gibb
    reading poems, John Dixon’s
    quiet kindness,� Douglas Martin’s
    clever use of words, so many
    ordinarily ordinary men, artifacts
    of identity, of depiction and posturing:
    nothing like Dick, his relentless jollity,
    his banklike security and his always
    impeccable decorator and merry picnic.
    �
    Ron Price
    2 October 2006
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        RonPrice  79, Male, Canada - 60 entries
    10
    Feb 2012
    4:22 AM AEST
       

    CSI: SCIENCE AND SALVATION

    Each episode of the most popular television series in the world - according to articles in The New Yorker and BBC online1- begins where many stories end, at the death of the central character. Before the opening credits roll, the primary piece of evidence, this character’s body, appears lifeless and silent. Soon enough, however, the crime scene investigator, the CSI, begins his chief task; he must get this body to speak. He will, within an hour’s time, divine a true tale. And, in the retrospective portrait that emerges, the CSI confirms his mastery of the tools of truth telling and his ability to impose these tools on the world around him, whatever the circumstances.

    I watched a few of the CSI: Miami episodes after they began to be released on my birthday, 23/7/’03, at the age of 59, here in northern Tasmania where the Tamar River meets the sea. �I had taken an early retirement after a 40 year working life, was the secretary of the small Baha’i Group of George Town Tasmania, and had begun to write full-time.-Ron Price with thanks to 1Wikipedia: 2009-2011; 2"Dead Men Do Tell Tales:” CSI: Miami and the Case Against Narrative, Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, Spring 2009, Volume 8, Issue 1.

    Since I took a sea-change in 1999

    I’ve been watching more who-dun-

    its than ever before, some with my

    wife and some by myself. Today I

    came across a study of CSI: Miami at

    an online journal that I have taken an

    interest in, one of those free journals

    that are available on the world-wide

    web which enrich my years in these

    evening--times of my late adulthood

    which some of the psychologists of

    human development call these years

    of 60 to 80 in the average lifespan.


    Little gregarious chatter as each

    episode unfolds weekly with its

    faith in science and technology.

    I watched a few programs when

    CSI: Miamifirst came out & now

    only when I am too tired to write.

    The series has been voted the most

    popular in the world perhaps, partly,

    because of its propensity for a high

    tech and its wordlessness: no juries,

    no lawyers, just pretty people as well

    as some, a lot, of instrumentation and

    scientific methodology to provide the

    view that science will save us if we can

    just develop it to suit our social needs!!

    Ron Price

    25 January 2012


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