OUR FAIR CITY

posted by James Reel

    A Wikipedia parody called “Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” includes an entry on Tucson that is most assuredly not endorsed by the City Fathers and Their Girlfriends. In the Culture section one finds this reference to a certain organization with which we are all familiar:
    “The only decent broadcast entertainment is on the university classical music station, hosted by affable, erudite annoucers who believe public obfuscation is a requirement, not a privilege.”
    Hmm. I wonder if whoever wrote that saw the Tucson Weekly column in which Tom Danehy described my delivery as “erudite and pimpish at the same time.”
    The best observation from this article: “Tucson has an Arroyo Chico but no Arroyo Harpo or Groucho.”
    Uncyclopedia also includes an entry on classical music written by someone who was obviously traumatized by old music-history texts:

The development of western classical music has been evolutionary, constantly building on the technical triumphs of the past; it has improved consistently through the work of such major figures as Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart and Beethoven (da-da-da dum), each work being an improvement over previous compositions, until the final apotheosis demonstrated by film music such as that written for Star Wars (daaaaa da, da-da-da-daaaaa da, da-da-da-daaaaaa da, da-da-da-dum).