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.
Today I found out that RBG credited her Cornell University lit prof with influencing her style of judicial opinion. You know who that prof was?
Vladimir Nabakov.
I'd read this. https://twitter.com/Crying_Sweating/status/1307467559218810882
All I want is a Thomas Pynchon novel that connects the DB Cooper highjacking to the Max Headroom broadcast hijacking. I know they are a connected somehow but I can't prove it.
One thing I love about New York right now? How people pull up their masks as they approach strangers on the street. It’s a sign of respect, community and common sense. Just call us the heartland.
“I thought it was all Carlos Castaneda, mescalin medicine man bollocks,” the girl said as she wiped blood from her brow. “How was I to know the fucker really meant it?” https://www.williammeikle.com/aboutsongsofdreaminggods.html
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served until her last day. Rep. John Lewis walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 2020 after announcing his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Rep. Elijah Cummings signed subpoenas from his death bed. What do we owe them? EVERYTHING we can give.
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?