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.
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” --W. Somerset Maugham https://twitter.com/nadiabulkin/status/1365010996188901385
People who have written novels: what's your best advice for writing a novel? Please share! ⤵️
https://youtu.be/dN3wEdK_vxw
NOMADLAND is a grim reminder of Gibson's aphorism that "the future is already here--it's just not evenly distributed." I once naively thought that meant the shiny, cool future of tech would trickle down--now I realize it also refers to post-apocalyptic futures that seep up.
Sorry, you lose the right to complain about partisanship once you've fanned the flames of violent insurrection. https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1364628986769399818
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) goes off on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during USPS oversight hearing:
“I didn’t vote to overturn an election. And I will not be lectured by people who did about partisanship.”
People are really trying to dissect what is a "cage," what is a "facility," what is a "shelter," when the bigger issue we should be dissecting is very simple: why have we as a country been criminalizing migration from the Global South since the 1990s and even before that?
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?