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Month: August 2015
How P.J. O’Rourke Killed “National Lampoon”
Bigtime BigMedia humorist and hero of LB’s childhood P.J. O’Rourke ‘fesses up about a certain dirty deed.
Or is he bragging?
by P.J. O’Rourke
A new Vacation movie is scheduled to be released — or allowed to escape — on July 29. To judge by the obvious, pitiful, frenetic, stupid raunchiness of its trailer, it belongs to the genre known as “post-humoristic.”
Dialog Writing Contest!
If you’ve never visited and read Bartleby Snopes you’ve missed experiencing one of the absolutely best displays of writerly thinking (and, you know, writing) to be found on this planet.
Currently, Bartleby is running its 7th Annual Dialogue Only Contest – a contest for short stories consisting entirely of dialog, with a max length of 2000 words, in which you – oh, the hell with it. Why should we struggle with description when you can get the gist right from the website itself:
munchman sees BOJACK HORSEMAN
by munchman
Like our Beloved Leader, LB, I’m smitten by Netflix’s BOJACK HORSEMAN series, which has just been picked up for a third season of heavy truth-telling, inventive visual puns, tragedy, and even a little humor.
Wait. Truth to tell, the show is funny as hell if you’re the kinda person who enjoys seeing other people’s deepest, most hidden fears come roaring to the surface to confront well-placed banana peels that you yourself aren’t tripping on.
THE GOOD:
Remembering a Forgotten Writer
NOTE FROM LB: In the early 50s, when I was very, very young, my anti-social self learned about the world via this very little box called a TV. One show that fascinated me for reasons I no longer remember but which I think had to do with the fact that no one on it was trying to sell me anything or talking down to me or doing anything other than living their sweet little lives.
The name of that show was ETHEL AND ALBERT. Even at the age of 5 or 6 I knew the life Ethel and Albert were living together wasn’t real. But, man, I sure wanted it to be.
Peg Lynch, the creator, writer, and star of the show, died last week. The following is the best of not-nearly-enough tributes to her pioneering work: