Showing posts with label frasier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frasier. Show all posts

Monday, 12 March 2012

Out of the mouths of babes…

No, not that kind of babes. Merely young people - two rather talented young writer/actors starting with Shakespeare and going off in interesting directions. Sent to me by a colleague:



a rather cynical (i.e. accurate) analysis of what it takes to win an Oscar:



And finally the apotheosis of culture: Frasier meets Star Trek: Voyager. How have I lived without this?

Monday, 6 July 2009

Popular Culture rears its ugly head

Ewarwoowar, who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of popular culture, is on about children's TV today - nostalgics should head over there. I didn't watch much, but must admit to enjoying Press Gang on many levels.

That's by the by: what I meant to mention was that Ewarwoowar directs our attention to Garfield Minus Garfield. I always hated Garfield - one-joke nonsense. Someone has a lazy, greedy cat. Garfield Minus Garfield, however, is wonderful. Without the recurrently lame punchline, there's a minimalist, Zen-like and even poignant quality to his owner's life which is entirely lacking in the original. Is this one of the rare cases (perhaps Cheers/Frasier) where the 'remix' or pastiche transcends the original? I definitely think this qualifies as art.