Okay, will everyone please leave my favourite childhood comic books alone.
First we have this article on Tintin in last week's New Yorker (not available online, sorry), where Anthony Lane points to a body of scholarly research (yes, you heard me right, scholarly research) which examines Tintin in the context of Freud, Derrida, Sartre and others, and comes to the conclusion (among others) that "the jewel embedded in the title of 'The Castafiore Emerald' is, in fact, Bianca Castafiore's clitoris." I mean seriously, wtf? [1]
And then you have this stupid controversy about Asterix being too 'monocultural'. It's enough to make you wish that the sky would fall on our heads.
Seriously, people, grow down!
[1] You have to hand it to Lane though. Who else could write a sentence like "Jean-Marie Apostolides, who states that the hero of the early stories 'annihilates himself in the absolute' which may be another way of saying that he keeps falling through trapdoors."
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Twitter
Posts
Posts
Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax -- Of cabbages -- and kings -- And why the sea is boiling hot -- And whether pigs have wings.
About Me
- Falstaff
- Minneapolis, MN
- GB$(GL) d- s+:++ a C W+(++) w PS++ PE--(++) !tv b++++ DI++++ m++++ e++++ h+ r* z-->---
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(290)
-
▼
June
(27)
- Ore-gone
- A joke in time, or nine of them
- Go Johnny go go go
- Poem: Pencil
- Mimi Khalvati
- Hard to believe I was ever that young whelp
- Basketball
- The Value of Bad Reviewers
- You can't touch this
- Fighting Trim
- As odd as wearing shoes
- Out Stealing Horses
- A turn for the verse
- Drip
- Brothers in Arms
- The dailiness of weapons prescribed upon our bodies
- The Good, the Bad and the plain Dumb
- Microwave Dinners
- Bittersweet
- The Laundry Room - Alt Take
- Screening
- The Laundry Room
- Ogre Shmogre
- The Lover of Ghosts
- Weekend Poetry
- By Belenos! & Billions of Blue blistering barnacles
- Out of Order
-
▼
June
(27)
Recent Comments
Method to the Madness
Subscribe To
Posts
Posts
Site Meter
StatCounter
E-mail:
specktre@gmail.com
5 comments:
"Seriously, people, grow down!". Lovely words,those.
The post reminded me of the time I accompanied someone to the art museum. Oh my God, I think she saw way too much in some very simple works! Certainly not the way I'd like art to be interpreted for me, thank you very much.
"Seriously, people, grow down!"
So do I second that. Only, I think that's not the kind of statement one would hear coming from you very often. :-)
~N.
Oops! I meant "I do second that".
~N.
Aaahh! Glad you got weirded out too :D
I had a wtf! moment too while reading the meaning of the emerald in the article. I figured it must be some deep symbolism that I didn't get!
gg
"grow down" is right.
Post a Comment