01 April 2008

Chinese Ghost Story and The Simpsons

In "A Chinese Ghost Story" the Taoist sings an empty-headed song that captures and mimics the Taoist poetry of Lao Tze in his Tao Te Ching. A friend seeing the silly song and dance declared it a "Homer Simpson Song". And so it is. Which suggests that in some ways, Homer Simpson embodies "the Way"(Tao).