In a self-sacrificial act, Gabe has subscribed to the the YouTube channel, I noticed.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man subscribe to GOOP for his readers.
When Videogum has the NYC Prep recaps, I just immediately scroll through and stop at any paragraph with the letters "PC." Luckily he makes it easy for me with his two-capital-letter name.
Somehow I never, ever tire of the jokes about Gabe's age. Especially when they mention his divorce.
But then I'm also in the Hugh-Jackman-Pee-Joke Apologists camp.
It's interesting to compare this situation with Real World Chet. Chet was sort of endearing in a way, and you wanted him to come out, come to terms, find a nice guy, etc. PC on the other hand is awful and you almost want him to be outed as some kind of punishment.
It doesn't even exactly make metaphor-grammar sense either, right? "Stripping while alive" - the lady is doing the stripping herself in the metaphor, while in reality the fisher is doing the stripping to the fish? It would suggest that in the metaphor the lady should wait until she is dead to take off her clothes?
i mean, on top of the whole what-the-Jesus-fucking-Christ problem of the ad.
aaand Lindsay's Twitter explodes with followers.
Lindsay, help us say goodbye.
we'll miss you. may your LIFE be tagged as fantastically at this blog post (what?).
on Lindsay's blog tombstone:
Lindsay Robertson
[whenever Vgum started] - 2009
"fun, weird, creepy, cute"
i feel like we are all signing Lindsay's yearbook.
But no, didn't Ebert write a really positive review of the first Transformers? I can't find it at the moment but I remember being just crushed by his approval of it.
so weak. I think a key element missing is the choreography, right? Their planning was, "okay, I'll start the music, then everyone run up and start dancing!" As opposed to the carefully synchronized movements of the Sound of Music performers. There's value in that preparation.
He is in some commercials - one for a McDonald's snack wrap, I think, and one cell phone commercial where his butt-pressing-on-cell-phone calls his girlfriend.
ugh this has thrown stark daylight on what fills my brain.
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