12 A terrific sendup of Les Misérables gacked from shelly_rae. The thing that struck me most about this is that you couldn’t imagine the McCain campaign making it, or anyone making it about the McCain campaign.
We shouldn’t fool ourselves into mistaking the world as we experience it for the world as it really is.
The two are related, but the relationship is complicated, and it’s real work to figure it out.
@Popehat We're never going to change their hearts and minds if we treat this kind of conduct as a bad thing.
Oscar Hokeah's blog post: Debut Novel: CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21549394-debut-novel-calling-for-a-blanket-dance via @goodreads
“the…novelist, who seeks to confer or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply to prose fiction a licence, or rather a rule, from the adoption of which so many exquisite combinations of human feeling have resulted in the highest specimens of poetry.”
Jeff Bezos being lionized by rote, thoughtless coverage for going to space privately, decades after we did it first collectively, speaks of the ethos of an age: we've come to venerate what we do alone and sneer at what we do together.
Let's reverse that.
https://the.ink/p/what-we-do-alone-and-what-we-do-together
karen_w_newton
This is fantastic! And very clever. Loved the McCain and Palin stand-ins, too. Someone know his/her Le Miz! I was super impressed for about three seconds until I realized they were lip syncing.
silk_noir
Hooorayyyy!
*leaping to feet, all excited*
admin
Yeah, they’re apparently an improv troupe. Very impressive.
admin
Ha! Here’s looking up your nostrils, Kid.
steelbrassnwood
Well done, though I’m sure it would have made more sense had I ever seen Les Miz.
admin
I saw it: I’m not so sure. All you really have to know is that the scene takes place the day before the Paris uprising of June 1832.
shelly_rae
Five points to Mr. Howe for the correct conjugation of the verb Gack.
While you might miss the nuances of the love triangle or that Javert/McCain is hiding his evil doings under the disguise of a revolutionary (can you say maverick? change?) I think the main idea of young people gathering together to fight for what they believe in comes across.
Anon
admin
The painful point of that triangle is Fielding Edlow.
baron_elric
Wow. Just . . . wow.
Reminds me how much I like Les Mis, too.
admin
Hey! I have to read the book. I saw the Broadway version and wasn’t enthralled. Say hello to the Birthday Girl for me.
ecmyers
So awesome.
admin
It’s almost hypnotic, isn’t it?