Herge himself seems to have been something of an empty vessel*, who also started his life's career as a school-aged teenager.
* he married a coworker on the orders of their boss, who kept a portrait of Mussolini in the office and conducted the wedding ceremony
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
The reason Tintin is a kid doing an adults job is because the strip was originally about teaching kids about the world. It was a newspaper strip in the kid section of a right-wing newspaper, and was just meant to indoctrinate about Soviet, Congo, US, etc.
It never really moved beyond that serialized mentality. Every page is it's own thing, and yeah, a lot of it is bad excuses for pretty drawings. That was indeed the point.
― Frederik B, Friday, 13 March 2020 08:09 (four years ago) link
Britney Spears is a Republican.
― rusted (crüt), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
In the 1991 Nardwuar vs Sonic Youth interview, Nardwuar was the bully and SY were within their rights to lash out.
― Sund4r, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
I have no idea what anybody finds amusing about that terrible terrible cunt
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
^^ otfm. Baffled by the love for him. I don't get the "nardwuar is a national treasure he may not die!" but I'm guessing it's one of those #lolUSA things I'm better off not understanding anyway (yes, I know he's Canadian).
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
I don't understand why everybody doesn't just headbutt the fucker and then kick him to death tbh
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
the man does research!
― ogmor, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
????????
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
#lolUSA
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
Films aren’t art.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:42 AM (six months ago)
came here to post this again, oh well.
All my posts in this thread are good
― silby, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
Dance isn't art.
How am I doing?
― coco vide (pomenitul), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
could try harder
― silby, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
saying things aren't art is performance
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
Saying it's performance to say things aren't art is performance.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
it's not art to say that saying it's performance to say things aren't art is performance
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
Performance art is bad art
― Frederik B, Thursday, 2 April 2020 08:00 (four years ago) link
that famous dorothy parker dismissal of the winnie the pooh books is stupid and wrong and not even particularly clever ("tonstant weader fwowed up" or whatever)
i don't know if this is controversial but ppl love to quote that review for some reason
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
it's wrong but it's funny
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
the former never matters when the latter is true
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:39 (three years ago) link
otm
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
is it actually funny tho
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
kinda up to individual
winnie the pooh wont hit everyone the same way, neither will parker's zing of it, this seems a somewhat universal kind of phenomenon
― kim rong un (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
it's wrong but it's funny― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:38 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Elon's musk (sic), Thursday, May 7, 2020 11:38 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm, also new board description, etc.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
J B Morton's put-downs of A A Milne were better, of which this is my fave:
Hush, hush,Nobody cares!Christopher RobinHasFallenDown-Stairs.
― fetter, Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link
That is a good one.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
the parker review wasn't of the books it was of a broadway adaptation
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
oh nevermind i misremembered. she mostly reviewed theater and i thought it was an adaptation she was reviewing but looking up the review i see it was of the book oops
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
fp
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
I am a huge Dorothy stan but, she didn't have children. Her review of a children's book was then, and is now, an amusing footnote.
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
HOWEVER
when she (in her role as a theater reviewer) absolutely savaged an obviously treacly and stupid A.A. Milne play I was totally cool with it
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
i also remembered it being a theater adaptation she was reviewing (as i said above) but can only find a book review now. mandela effect :/
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
oh i see now she did review Milne's Give Me Yesterday
https://ochsnerblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/screen-shot-2020-03-23-at-10.10.54-am.png
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
https://ochsnerblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/screen-shot-2020-03-23-at-10.11.00-am.png
Yeah there's a bit where somebody is tapping out like rudimentary code for "I love you" and it's pretty cringey.
That said, the book review was out of line so I agree with J.D.
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
Does the New Yorker still review popular childrens' books?
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
nah
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
oh btw i like dorothy parker! her short stories were cool. she just probably wasn't the target audience for the gently paced adventures of a group of neurotic stuffed animals.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 07:16 (three years ago) link
I think the time has probably come for everyone to quit it with the (((twitter names))) - the point has been made now.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 May 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
the time was immediately after people tried to start doing it as some sort of own on the Nazis, especially non-Jewish people who did it in solidarity, for fuck's sake
― silby, Friday, 8 May 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
nauseated
Non-Jewish people do it?
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
yes
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
any chance of a link to what this refers to
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
thanks i found one
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
Twitter, gotta love it.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
Whenever I see a "Mother's Day is painful for me because I don't have a healthy relationship with my mom / my mom is absent / my mom is dead" post I want to scream. For fuck's sake. Today does not need to be about you and your relationship with your mom. Do you have friends who are moms? wish them a happy mother's day. Do you have family members who are moms? wish them a happy mother's day. There are 364 other days of the year that we can make about you and your maternal trauma. "Me and my mother aren't close; Mother's Day is a holiday for privileged people" is such straight pride bullshit and it makes me really angry
The same opinion does not apply to Father's Day obv
― it’s been one week since you pissed on me (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
Agree with the above and also Mother's Day / Fathers' Day / etc. Are mostly just Hallmark profit generators; we could do away with all of them and instead just try to be good to everyone, all year
Thxbye
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
it's been annoying for two days that i haven't been able to figure out why this is "obv"
would you mind explaining ?
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link