Sarah Palin as Tina Fey

The Sarah Palin phenomenon has begun to ebb with revelations that her awareness of foreign
policy is scant. Getting by with her looks, brawn and boobs is not enough. Tina Fey appropriately depicted her on Saturday Night Live--almost with the old Oscar Levant
depiction of Hollywood-- "Behind the tinsel is the real tinsel--"

There is a distance each day between original ideas--never done before--and those which are
derivative-- used to end a meeting! Original ideas are like new poems, heartful, inventive and
self-created. The others are old hat remedies to worn out directions. What is needed is a vigor
to connect the creative to a product--where both emerge with a new-ness, a freshness, which
compels viewers or readers to investigate such new thought, new creative--in a way still collaborative-- with each generation: each time. Together the idea becomes a form of reality
shared by those who connect. Each age can connect to their own message if it works. Otherwise
its invisibility becomes glaring; lost in the gaggle of other messages; old stock formulaes that
resonate with dead echos.

vincent kamin short stories