7.) Weekly Plot:
Can some plots be summed up merely as "shit, then more shit?" I'm not sure, but this must be a case study.
6.) Weekly "Headline That Leaves to Much to the Imagination":
"Panettiere Attempts to Save Dolphins"
Help refused as dolphins assert right to self-determination
Or . . .
Drowns, tragically
Or . . .
Learns to save self
5.) Weekly Funny Image:
Accompanying an AP story reporting that "
("We're going to get through this and yes, there will be a day when we are fairly compensated for Alien vs. Predator 2: The Final Indignity. The sun will rise again!")4.) Weekly "Get the Hell off Your High Horse Before I Shoot You off":
Online marketing guru Jeff Gomez complains in Publisher's Weekly about the rude treatment he has received from industry colleagues and co-workers (at Penguin) thanks to his book Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age. Whines Gomez:
Some people don’t want to be bothered by bad news and would rather stay with the status quo until they one day wake up to find it all gone. My book is getting in the way of their rosy outlook; that’s why they get angry. Things are changing, and they don’t want to have to hear about it. To my mind, that’s like people getting mad at Paul Revere because he woke them up as he rode through the countryside yelling out that the British were coming. I mean, how rude. Didn’t he know that people were sleeping?Yes, Gomez, you are the harbinger of the revolution, risking life and limb to warn us of oncoming invasion, oppression and tyranny. Although, now that I think about it, Paul Revere warned the Massachusetts colony in order to repel the British and secure political independence. You're warning us of the emergence of digital print media so that we can more effectively cope with its inevitability. But other than that minor point, I guess it's a pretty salient comparison.
Oh, one more thing: shut the hell up and stop whining.
Even Edward Rothstein has something to say about Dumbeldore's big reveal. To his credit, he does manage to include an example of the kind of bitterness only internet comment forums can support:
Playing off other caricatures, comments on sites like imao.us mention Dumbledore’s “purple robe with glittery silver stars” or winkingly allude to the Hogwarts “policy of Don’t ask, don’t spell.”One commentator posted: “Oh, who cares? The whole bloody lot of them were gay as far I’m concerned. All those hours of movies and not a single car chase, shootout or kung fu fight.”
I love it.
2.) Weekly "Nerd Makes Good":
Apparently the Eragon film was so bad that Alfred A. Knopf is willing to extend the proposed "Inheritance" series from three to four books. Maybe that was the plan the whole time. As fans clamored for a film, Knopf wanted to violently remind them that terrible films are no substitute for mediocre fiction.
1.) Weekly "Thing You Need to Know":
Cultural satire should target something widely disseminated if not truly popular, right? So did enough people see 300 to justify this?
1 comment:
I want more coverage of the writers' strike. Most importantly, I want an analysis of their unwitty and uncreative strking signs. These signs should be at the center of their strategy, and the best they can come up with is "on strike"?
Come on. Terrible.
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