Weekly Hebdomad

On the seventh day, Creative Differences rested from all the work it had done in creation and reflected on the week that was.

7. Weekly Plot:

Either I'm a genius or I'm lazy, but I'll let the the Star Wars trope I expounded yesterday take the place of the Weekly Plot.


6. Weekly Awkward Encounter with Mortality:

Doris Lessing on winning the Nobel Prize in Literature after years on the shortlist: "Either they were going to give it to me sometime before I popped off or not at all."

Umm, congrats?

5. Weekly Trailer:

The only I can be understood is through DANCE! (couldn't embed, follow link) Films like this, the first installment of Step Up and Save the Last Dance make it clear that "dance" was an element of bourgeois control Marx never truly appreciated.

4. Weekly Understatement:

"It’s one crazy night in one crazy town!" is how Apple Trailers sums up this description for the upcoming film Weirdsville:

When stoners Dexter and Royce mistakenly assume their friend Matilda has overdosed, they can’t call the cops because she’s OD’d on stolen drugs. So, they decide to bury her body themselves. Good news is she’s not dead. Bad news is she wakes up just in time to interrupt a Satanic cult performing a ritual sacrifice in the same place the guys were going to bury her. Our heroes end up on the run from the Satanists, the drug dealer they stole the stash from, and a gang of angry little people all while trying to pull off a heist of their own.

Yes, sounds like "one crazy night in one crazy town" really hits the nail on the head . . . with one of those blow-up plastic hammers that deflates on contact with edged metal.

3. Weekly Established Authors Can Get Away with Anything:

According to the New York Times, Michael Chabon's new novel, Gentlemen of the Road, was originally titled Jews with Swords. I have a feeling my draft for Jews with Swords won't sell, although I'm talking to networks about a potential sit-com pilot.

2. Weekly Postponement of Book's Death as Viable Medium:

Phew! That was a mouthful. Anyway, Publisher's Weekly reports that children are again learning to love reading . . . Harry Potter. Yeah, basically only Harry Potter.

1. Weekly Thing You Need to Know:

Generally, sit-coms are a less than fertile ground for psychoanalysis, but apparently Seinfeld really was a way for its namesake to come to grips with his nerdy past. Thank you, Parade.com, for bringing this dangerously inane story to our attention.