On On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a…
@keisertroll - right you are, as well as
far too Speedy Gonzalez-y for me. Mere
fact that Elon Green missed this - nah,
APPARENTLY WASN'T EVEN AWARE
OF THE EXISTENCE OF this ur-example
of Internet presence, speaks volumes of
his own ignorance in this matter.
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On 'Homeland' And 'Enlightened': Women On The Verge Of Nervous Breakthroughs
@belltolls; @GailPink you forgot to share with
us VITAL info of other TV shows, and named
episodes of given seasons of same that you
apparently like. Don't keep us waiting, do tell.
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On 'Homeland' And 'Enlightened': Women On The Verge Of Nervous Breakthroughs
You don't know how prescient you are! It seems
TV series with a female protagonist, and then
very often some policewoman with somewhat-
manageable MENTAL DISORDER, are now ALL
THE RAGE in more places than the USA. I've
only watched a couple of episodes of Homeland
so far, do not think much of it, but that
much I can tell you that Carrie's bipolar
disorder is nothing, nuthing compared to
that of the allegedly-autistic/Asperger-
syndromic Saga's (name also means
"fairy tale"), the lead cop in the recent
prestigious 10-part Nordic co-produced TV
series "Bron | Broen" - i.e. the brigde over
the Øresund linking Denmark to Sweden
and vice versa. Of that I only watched
the first installment, built on so unbelie-
vable a premise that I elected to desist
and cease (= someone sabotages the lights
on that minuciously-protected international
double-decker bridge, then places a corpse
made up of two different female bodies,
a politico's and a prostitite's, dead
across the border line of the two countries
- what next, I wonder, minced bodies?).
It all happens very conveniently while the
fem.mental basket case criminal investigator
has nightshift duty, and so, true to form,
her first course of action is to report her
Danish counterpart, the man whom she is
supposed to work along (shared jurisdiction)
to solve the crime, for negligence of duty.
I don't know about you, but what I look for
in police drama is some semblance of realism…
only here, in RL there'd simply no chance such
a person could survive long enough in any, let
alone Swedish, police force, to rise above the
level of WPC, or common patrolwoman. If that.
All 10 episodes are available on the web until
23 december, alas in Swedish. Or wait for it
to be remade in Engish in due course, location
shifted to the Golden Gate bridge or something.
Maybe Claire Danes can do that one as well,
only overplay it a bit more this time.
Back to Homeland. A terrorism thriller-by-
numbers (as was "24" - though in comparison
this seems heads above the other). I'd have
thought that the subject matter would be
worthy of more serious treatment than the
surrealistic and sensationalist oh-my-God-
al-Qaida-turned-one-our-brave-Marines-angle.
A treatment worthy of "The Wire". Alas, not.
Perhaps that's why I never became a TV exec,
too much distrust of common nonsense?
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On Shred Your Dead
But Alex (not to mention the nameless -
and so s/he'll remain) engineer: methinks
you haven't kept up with the most recent
developments in the field of alternative
deceased human remains disposal. Since
a while back there is a truly organic, bio-
friendly and burial real-estate saving
method for that called Promession -
and now even with a valid UK (aka Knife-
crime Island) license to operate! Try it
(even just once) - you're bound to like it!
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On Hollywood as Free Money
@Choire, no need to look up WWD for A+ money
quotes on Hollywood's ways and means—by way of
The New Yorker or otherwise. Next time, just ask me,
and I'll supply a suitable paraphrase of what Henry
Finder, or whoever, aims to say a month later. Like
this topical quote of mine of July 21, 2011 1:49 pm
in The Dabbler:
[…] Hollywood is a strange place, a one-industry
town—which is not the cinematography—but
making money. For everybody up and down
the chain, including the bottom-feeders […]
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On Please Welcome Lauren Lauren
Consider it done! ("Please welcome Lauren Lauren").
Given her background, she must be one helluva
gutsy lady to dare mock her square parents in such
a Lauren-squared fashion. All that is now needed
to complete the picture is a pair of suitably named
spawn, Laurent if ♂, Laura or one more Lauren if ♀
otherwise, to confuse future biographers. And at
least one laureateship in the family to hang above
the mantelpiece (they do mantelpieces in Texas,
don't they?).
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On "In March 1970, the poet Ted Hughes found himself in a tricky real estate situation."
@Choire, so you can not let Janet Malcolm be, no?
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On "In March 1970, the poet Ted Hughes found himself in a tricky real estate situation."
Anyone who has seen the movie "Sylvia" with Plath
expertly and hauntingly played by Gwyneth Paltrow
will know that in 1963 the mankind has lost a great,
if not the Greatest, Most Productively Innovative
soft-cake baker. The mind boggles what could have
happened had Sylvia recognized her inner-bake-true
calling instead of these her rhyme- and babymaking.
Indirectly, yes, I am talking about you, Sara Lee Corp.,
little do you know how close you came to be losing
the branding game before you even began!
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On Bear Jams!
You think this crazy behavior, so what about
this: "Honey-craving bear attacks beehives"
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On "In March 1970, the poet Ted Hughes found himself in a tricky real estate situation."