{"article":{"id":1947,"heading":"Johnny Cash & Lou Reed Arrested in LA (Satire)","author":"The Hollering Mangoo","created":"2000-08-18 00:53:44","modified":"2000-08-18 02:02:28","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:02:28","article":"

Musicians Johnny Cash and Lou Reed were arrested by LAPD ealier today in two seperate incidences. Although neither Cash nor Reed were protesting, police said they both \"matched the profile\" of the notorious \"Black Bloc\" anarchists police claim are currently destroying civilization as we know it. Cash, often referred to as \"The Man in Black\" because of his fondness of dark clothing, was standing at the corner of Pico and Figuroa humming to himself picking daisies from a lawn when several riot police in full gear surrounded him, knocking him to the ground. He was then arrested although no charges were filed.


One hour later, near the Staples Center, singer-songwriter Lou Reed, formerly of the seminal proto-punk band the Velvet Underground, was sprayed in the face with pepper spray and dragged by several offices into a waiting paddy wagon. Speaking through his lawyer, Reed, famous for popularizing the black leather, black sunglasses look copied by so many in recent years, claims he was only, \"Waiting for my man...\" when police grabbed him and didn't even know that the Democrats were in Los Angeles.


When asked to comment on the arrests, LAPD spokesman Capt. James Roberts reached menacingly for his cannister of tear gas and replied, \"Get used to it...soon all you black-wearin' motherf*ckers are gonna be joining them!!!\" No further questions were asked.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Victims of \"police profiling,\" two famous \"Men in Black\" feel the Iron Hand of the LAPD","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/1947.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":1966,"heading":"Is this for real?","article":"Could somebody at the IMC actually do some phone calls to check up on this one.","author":"rabble","parent_id":1947,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 01:24:29","modified":"2000-08-18 01:38:14","fileurl":""},{"id":1978,"heading":"Satire=not real","article":"It says \"(Satire)\" which means: it didn't really happen...(or did it?)","author":"Harvey Kurtzman","parent_id":1947,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 01:55:13","modified":"2000-08-18 02:07:38","fileurl":""},{"id":1979,"heading":"HAHAHAHAHAHAH","article":"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ","author":"thanksfor the comedy","parent_id":1947,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 01:55:15","modified":"2000-08-18 02:07:38","fileurl":""},{"id":1987,"heading":"Definition of \"Satire\"","article":"From The UVic Writer's Guide\r\n\r\n&127; \r\n\r\n\r\nSatire \r\n\r\n\r\nSatire arouses laughter or scorn as a means of ridicule and derision, with the avowed intention of correcting human faults. Common targets of satire include\r\nindividuals (\"personal satire\"), types of people, social groups, institutions, and human nature. Like tragedy and comedy , satire is often a mode of writing\r\nintroduced into various literary forms; it is only a genre when it is the governing principle of a work. (See also Irony.) \r\n\r\nIn direct satire, a first-person speaker addresses either the reader or a character within the work (the adversarius) whose conversation helps further the\r\nspeaker's purposes, as in Alexander Pope's \"Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot\" (1735). \r\n\r\nIndirect satire uses a fictional narrative in which characters who represent particular points of view are made ridiculous by their own behaviour and\r\nthoughts, and by the narrator's usually ironic commentary. In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) the hero narrating his own adventures appears\r\nridiculous in taking pride in his Lilliputian title of honour, \"Nardac\"; by making Gulliver look foolish in this way, Swift indirectly satirizes the pretensions of\r\nthe English nobility, with its corresponding titles of \"Duke\" and \"Marquess.\"","author":"Dr. Detroit","parent_id":1947,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 02:02:28","modified":"2000-08-18 02:15:32","fileurl":""}]}