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  • As Du Champ's mockery of the idea of selling Parisian air but done with a straight face to accent effect and Chief Seattle's sober and straight-faced, woeful delivery about the Anglo's deep-seated confusion about the relationships between man and Nature, as our current world situation regarding Japan and beyond bears out, we are ultimately faced with the idea "Is everything a commodity for sale, even the air?"

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Rachel Sequoia Branches Out to Invite us to Share the Air, for a Fee Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

  • Champ's Daytona woes: Lost in Jimmie Johnson's four-year Sprint Cup dynasty are recent struggles at Daytona, continuing with Sunday's 35th-place finish.

    Even Earnhardt Jr. surprised by his fast finish at Daytona 2010

  • We are brought back of course to French artist Marcel Du Champ's spoof on bottling and selling Parisian air back in the 1920's which essentially signified to him and his many fans what would be one more nail in the coffin of modern western "make-a-buck-or-franc-from-anything-based" thinking and civilization.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Rachel Sequoia Branches Out to Invite us to Share the Air, for a Fee Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

  • We are brought back of course to French artist Marcel Du Champ's spoof on bottling and selling Parisian air back in the 1920's which essentially signified to him and his many fans what would be one more nail in the coffin of modern western "make-a-buck-or-franc-from-anything-based" thinking and civilization.

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Rachel Sequoia Branches Out to Invite us to Share the Air, for a Fee Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

  • As Du Champ's mockery of the idea of selling Parisian air but done with a straight face to accent effect and Chief Seattle's sober and straight-faced, woeful delivery about the Anglo's deep-seated confusion about the relationships between man and Nature, as our current world situation regarding Japan and beyond bears out, we are ultimately faced with the idea "Is everything a commodity for sale, even the air?"

    Mitchell J. Rabin: Rachel Sequoia Branches Out to Invite us to Share the Air, for a Fee Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

  • Pabian delivers Leatherstone in a flat, ironical style that compares Champ's anxious, untenable feelings about the world he lives in with our own good feelings and good opinions of the "normal" world.

    Daniel Krotz: Leatherstone by David Pabian: A Review 2010

  • What follows is the story of how badly Leatherstone fails Champ as he, Leatherstone, becomes more self-aware and begins to assume an identity separate from Champ's.

    Daniel Krotz: Leatherstone by David Pabian: A Review 2010

  • Champ's sense of alienation from self and society, exactly like that of the teenage werewolf's alienation, is too rooted in reality to find mass market favor: it sees ordinary life and ordinary relationships as the highest pinnacle to ascend; no flying brooms, magic, or necrotic kissy face aids or bars ascension -- people make it up the hill, or they don't, because they suddenly get lucky, or unlucky.

    Daniel Krotz: Leatherstone by David Pabian: A Review 2010

  • Camp Ka Champ's main sponsor -- and the one which gives the competition its electric-yellow hue -- is Western Union, the US-based company which provides worldwide services for international money transfers.

    Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Two Idols, a Song and Some Money Transfers 2010

  • Camp Ka Champ's main sponsor -- and the one which gives the competition its electric-yellow hue -- is Western Union, the US-based company which provides worldwide services for international money transfers.

    Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Two Idols, a Song and Some Money Transfers 2010

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