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for never, ever, EVER letting me forget: People Are Freaks

Posted by tiltiblog on November 21, 2008

Do you watch Heroes, dear reader?

It is a very popular television program on the NBC.  It is a program about people, regular people like you and me.  Except for, mostly they are more attractive and also they have super powers.   Hijinks ensue.

Is this show’s popularity tapping into a Jungian collective desire to transcend our human limitations and self-actualize?  Or is it merely escapist entertainment?

I only ask the questions around here.  But I will say you don’t have to Make Yours Marvel to know that in RL there are not super hot Indian guys trying to stop a power-absorbing creepy-eyebrows dude from messing with an indestructible cheerleader.* Yes, genes mutate. There are mutants but not that does not mean tights-wearing Mutants are real.

Right?

*not actual NBC storyline

**thx to Dr. Jones for the link!

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for never letting me forget that people are freaks.

Posted by tiltiblog on November 20, 2008

Just always.

But today, I was looking up info on Alistair Cooke (who would have been 100 tomorrow) when I found this article. Sure, it’s well-written and informative and retrospective. Did I say informative? I meant that it INFORMED ME that Sir Alistair’s BODY PARTS had been sold off by the funeral home that processed his remains. What. The.

How much news do I have to read to ensure that I don’t miss things like this?

Interesting insight from Cooke’s daughter Susan on this horrific situation:

‘Did Mastromarino apologise? “Yeah.” She shrugs. The fact that he got away with it for so long is a consequence, she says, of a squeamishness about death, which hands over extraordinary power to funeral directors. “We are really happy that they come and take [the problem] away.” There would have to be a “big cultural shift” for that to change, but for now she is tired of the subject.’

This article, by Emma Brockes, also enlightened me to the fact that evidently Sir Alistair was a hypochondriac, afraid of flying and more reasonably, wasn’t too fond of knives.

Thanks to the lofty tastes of my parental nerd-units, I watched a LOT of Masterpiece Theater as a child. I’m grateful that Sir Al’s consistently refined presence informed my cultural understanding during formative years. Now, to top it off, he is making me feel better about my claustrophobia from beyond the grave.

Bless you, Sir Al! I’ll be buying your books in the years to come.

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No creepy goth stuff, it’s too weird.

Posted by tiltiblog on September 8, 2008

Know what I’m sayin’?  Oh also, I’m not into gourmet dining.  Clearly.

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