"Shakespeare in Love." Hated, hated, HATED it . . . yet my (now ex-) wife and seemingly everyone else could just not get enough of its syrupy, saccharine tweeness. Just a cheap excuse to "do Shakespeare" without really doing Shakespeare.

"Shakespeare in Love." Hated, hated, HATED it . . . yet my (now ex-) wife and seemingly everyone else could just not get enough of its syrupy, saccharine tweeness. Just a cheap excuse to "do Shakespeare" without really doing Shakespeare.

You had me from . . .
"Maybe you never understood why critics go apeshit for The Velvet Underground and Nico. "

A letter to deliver to the King of England.

"For a handful of coin I happen to have a private and uncut performance of "The Rape of the Sabine Women," or rather woman, or rather Alfred, and for eight you can participate."

Am I right in thinking it's basically two camps at this point: Brock or Hank? Hmm, which is the more compelling theory: the obtuse/obvious or the insane/impossible one? Could easily go either way, people . . . VB knows its audience well (i.e. hyper-analytical superfans like all of YOU) and is clever enough to fake-out…

AH-HA!

"miunte": sixty seconds of time for a dyslexic or a poor typist.

Yeah, imagine if it came out that the presidential election was fixed in favor of some privileged retard scion of an elite corporo-imperialist crime dynasty . . . We the Peeple would rise up, brush off the Cheeto crumbs from our shirts, and shut down the whole damn country in a miunte, not relenting until we got some…

Wow, what an amazing standard for performers:
Reluctant, disaffected, and not even able to look the audience in the eye(s) . . . sounds like exactly the right way to get me excited about any kind of music!

Indeed one of the best MYOFs
Thank you Nathan. If this is indeed the end for MYOF (I won't get my hopes up based on any "all will be revealed" coyness just yet) you've ramped up the quality for a no doubt worthy finale. My hat is off to you, sir.

I've seen Mary Poppins (duh!) I just didn't quite get why Nathan chose to start the entry with a long, digressive non sequitur referencing it. It was kinda funny - but only kinda - so I guess that was the point: leavening all this intense dread of the imminent end of MYOF.

Okay, am I missing something with the chimney sweep bit at the beginning? Wha?

Moral of the Story
Per comparison with the Genarlow Wilson & similar cases: if you're gonna have sex with a teenage female, be sure it's miraculous reproductive vaginal sex, not the icky perverted oral kind. The former earns you a shotgun bride (or at least a baby-mama) and a rushed entry into the world of adult…

Only this time, no one will really care when Greedo fires first.

Well, since any Chicago AV Lubbers presumably missed picking it up last night(?) I can only assume that by now it belongs to some homeless man on the north side trying to shift it for a couple bucks. He will ironically discover a new meaning for "pay it forward" when he ends up having to pay to get rid of this…

Oh yeah
Fucking fantastic MYOF installation - schlock like this movie is what critical barbs were made for.

GREAT TOPIC
Shout-out of sympathy to Steve's pre-teen Paula Abdul fandom . . . I can totally identify.

Um, were you thinking of the Eagles of Death Metal? QOTSA and Eagles are kinda related . . .

QOTSA
is the coolest band alive, whether the story's true or not. Fucking awesome.