Sorry--I was typing "narrative" and got distracted. They're rewarded in the narrative for acting like what racists believe the worst of. I don't think that "taking what you can get" is good in this situation, because it seems to be setting up a negative bullshit feedback loop, but then I have to step back, exhale, and realise that I'm *not* a black American, so maybe they're hitting a cultural sweet spot I just don't have.
I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.
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§ ita § - Feb 26, 2012 10:00:03 am PST #18371 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Feb 26, 2012 10:23:55 am PST #18372 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's got to be the same kind of sweet spot that's hit by the "redneck" comedians, right? Like, it's so exciting to see "your people" on the screen that it doesn't matter as much if it's actually good or not?
Consuela - Feb 26, 2012 10:27:27 am PST #18373 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Like, it's so exciting to see "your people" on the screen that it doesn't matter as much if it's actually good or not?
Quite possibly.
smonster - Feb 26, 2012 10:52:56 am PST #18374 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Didn't work for me and "The 'L' Word," but I get it.
One of my dearest friends (who is a black American) LOOOOVES Tyler Perry and made me sit through "Why Did I Get Married" (the filmed play, not the movie) and part of another one until I begged her to stop. Then we watched the Stargate movie. And she is intelligent, college-educated, is a CPA, and a lesbian. Don't. Get. It.
le nubian - Feb 26, 2012 11:01:45 am PST #18375 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I saw the movie "Why did I get married" and that was enough.
ENOUGH.
my parents made me watch it.
Never again.
Tom Scola - Feb 26, 2012 11:05:16 am PST #18376 of 30000
hwæt
If people haven't seen the Boondocks parody, they should seek it out.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 26, 2012 11:06:12 am PST #18377 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's got to be the same kind of sweet spot that's hit by the "redneck" comedians, right? Like, it's so exciting to see "your people" on the screen that it doesn't matter as much if it's actually good or not?
I'll stand up for my homies here and maintain that a number of the people on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour are actually quite good comedians, like Bill Engvall and Ron White (whose act is particularly clever) if you can get past the Southern accents. Even Jeff Foxworthy has some pretty true and funny things to say.
Admittedly, Rodney Carrington is basically an hour of dick jokes set to music, but there's a place for that.(As for Backwoods SatanLarry the Cable Guy, I got nothin'.)
sj - Feb 26, 2012 11:34:09 am PST #18378 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
If people haven't seen the Boondocks parody, they should seek it out.
Seconded.
Consuela - Feb 26, 2012 11:35:35 am PST #18379 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I went to see Haywire last night, it's Soderbergh's spies-and-guns thriller with Gina Carano.
Man, that was great. Not the best movie ever made, and Carano's got some work to do on her acting chops, but the action scenes were excellent, the cast was great (except for Channing Tatum, who I just see as a boring block of wood, undistinguishable from all the other big blocks of wood in Hollywood right now), and they treated Carano's character like a person, not like a pretty girl pretending to kick ass.
The movie fails the Bechdel test pretty comprehensively (there isn't another named female character in the movie), but it also takes her seriously and doesn't ever do that skeevy thing where they shoot the woman like a piece of meat instead of a person.
I really enjoyed it.
§ ita § - Feb 26, 2012 11:40:03 am PST #18380 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
undistinguishable from all the other big blocks of wood in Hollywood right now
I find him quit distinguishable, in that he stand out as a big block of wood in his own special way. I never fail to recognise him and shiver in response. The other big zero is Sam Worthington, who fails to impress himself on my neurons properly, but at least he's generically goodlooking I don't think Channing is even that.
Who do you find Tatum interchangeable with?