@avclub-8e241a00e2905962b86a2e25a7945c70:disqus : As I always say, don't blame Wynton - blame Stanley Crouch, and the rich motherfuckers who fund JALC.
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Do we have a Random Roles for Dillon? Checking…doesn't look like it. Now that dude, if you could get him to open up, would have a pretty epic RR.
Do we have a Random Roles for Dillon? Checking…doesn't look like it. Now that dude, if you could get him to open up, would have a pretty epic RR.
Burroughs let them in on the "moisturizing with mugwump juice" secret.
Burroughs let them in on the "moisturizing with mugwump juice" secret.
I'd rather watch a Rashomon-like movie about the failure of a film crew to finish filming a remake of Rashomon.
I'd rather watch a Rashomon-like movie about the failure of a film crew to finish filming a remake of Rashomon.
Happy porkscabbard day!
Happy porkscabbard day!
"It was my career - and I loved it. I love my dead gay career!"
"It was my career - and I loved it. I love my dead gay career!"
You're beautiful.
You're beautiful.
This makes me want to watch Her Master's Voice (doc about deconstructionist ventriloquist Nina Conti) even more.
This makes me want to watch Her Master's Voice (doc about deconstructionist ventriloquist Nina Conti) even more.
"Children's television sucks your life dry, if you want to pluck the forbidden fruit you got to learn to lie."
"Children's television sucks your life dry, if you want to pluck the forbidden fruit you got to learn to lie."
In many ways, it's a perfect microcosm of what the entire series is about. I think the crucial bit is its structure - it is a recursive story as well as a recursion of stories, and yet as each metanarrative layer peels back, the resonances of meaning between the layers only expands. It all seems very simple, but…
In many ways, it's a perfect microcosm of what the entire series is about. I think the crucial bit is its structure - it is a recursive story as well as a recursion of stories, and yet as each metanarrative layer peels back, the resonances of meaning between the layers only expands. It all seems very simple, but…
An excellent meta-story, but also a great introduction to the rich world of Slavic folktales - Gaiman really hits the whole callously chilling, rule-bound, descending-into-ever-stranger-territory feel of them.