Dan Geddes
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Dan Geddes

Show BioHide BioWebsiteDan Geddes is the author of The Satirist: Volume 1 and the editor of the online journal The Satirist: America's Most Critical Journal, an astonishing collection of satires, reviews, reviews of imaginary works, fiction, essays, poems, and satirical news. Geddes' satire and serious criticism in The Satirist online has been widely cited in books, English courses, academic papers and journals, newspapers, and websites. Geddes has written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Dry Bones Review, and The Modern Word. His satirical work has also appeared in GlossyNews.com and HarryBalls.com. Geddes has also written several unpublished works, including a literary comic novel, a feature-length screenplay, and a collection of European travel stories. He lives in Amsterdam.

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Disney’s 1984

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    Voice of Winston Smith……David Schwimmer Voice of Julia………………………..Jenna Elfman Voice of Big Brother……………….Jerry Seinfeld Voice of O’Brien…... More »

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Smoking as Religion

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by Dan Geddes 1 March 2000 Smoking cigarettes is a cult, a religion, a philosophy. Like most belief-systems, Smoking separates its adherents from non-adherents, leaving the faithful huddled together and zealous. Smokers believe in Smoking despite all logic and... More »

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The Celestine Prophecy – New Age Piffle

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The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Review By Dan Geddes The Celestine Prophecy claims to be a novel, and it is: a novel disguising a New Age primer. The hero, (who I believe is never given a name) is told about a mysterious, ancient Manuscript now in the... More »

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The Seven Habits of Highly Efficient Cult Leaders

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15 December 1999 by Dan Geddes   Techniques for creating successful religious cults have changed dramatically since the cult heyday of the 1970s. Millions of people are desperate to find the definitive “answers” to life’s big questions—even if inc... More »

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Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals

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The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche’s most sustained critique of morality, exhibits such an original approach to value theory that many readers feel lost in the whirlpool of his ideas, and grapple for some solid ground from which to evaluate him. Surely m... More »

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Swann’s Way – Memory and Desire

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Swann’s Way Remembrance of Things Past (volume 1) Marcel Proust Review By Dan Geddes 10 December 1999 Proust’s fundamental triumph in Swann’s Way is in reconstructing his own past in such detail. He recreates the rhythm and events of his childhood so viv... More »

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The Movies of Jake Steiger

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by Dan Geddes Beginning with his first film, Mr. Kleen (1988), writer/director Jake Steiger went on to film some of the most popular films of the 1980s and 1990s.   Steiger’s Filmography Mr. Kleen (1988) ** ½ All In The Family (1989) ***½ Bringing Up ... More »

Satire (and Related Terms) Defined

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satire irony sarcasm parody burlesque travesty An Example: Chuck and Di’s Wedding This article is an attempt to clarify “satire” and related words. It is understood that didactic attempts like these are themselves vulnerable to satirical skew... More »

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A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Review By Dan Geddes Perhaps I expect too much of literature. Coming to read a novel for the first time, one nearly always has preconceptions of it, whether from its reputation, reviews, word of mouth, a movie version, or ... More »

Disney’s “Genesis”

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Imaginary review by Dan Geddes Voice of God………………James Earl Jones Voice of Adam……………John Cusack Voice of Eve………………Cameron Diaz Voice of The Serpent…….Jim Carey Voice of Noah……………Morgan Freeman Disney’s Genesis,... More »

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Apparent Idiot Considered Russia’s Greatest Poet

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Imaginary review by Dan Geddes 19 October 1999 One overlooked, undoubtedly tragic, consequence of the Cold War was the isolation of Eastern European artists and philosophers. Suppressed, imprisoned or even executed, some of these creative geniuses were prevent... More »

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Genesis Is Good Literature – Harold Bloom’s Book of J

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The Book Of J By Harold Bloom Translated by David Rosenberg (1990) Review by Dan Geddes 11 October 1999 See also reviews of Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence, Omens of Millennium, and The Western Canon. Although ostensibly a book of literary criticism, Bloom&... More »

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