The painful, hilarious fish scene in last week's episode "The Brick Dance." Just say no to analogy show-and-tell.
Carrie Fisher guest starred--merely 1 of the coolest women alive. Carrie Fisher's got an official website. Yay! Anybody who can survive the infamy of the dual cinnabon look deserves recognition of the tallest order. Merely blogging about it is just sad, but it'll have to do.
She's my favorite author at the moment. Lots of folks have seen Postcards from the Edge. She wrote the book and then wrote the screenplay that became the movie and created the character Suzanne Vale that Meryl Streep immortalized on screen. Great book. Books can explore nooks and cranies in ways that movies show in a more panoramic way. Books go deep--they delve, and movies go broad--they divulge. Don't make me quibble over the medium. It's what folks who create stuff do in the medium that matters. Good is good.
Suzanne Vale's most recent adventure was The Best Awful, a book I've re-read a 2nd time (I don't do that, hardly ever). It's yucky to skip to the end of the book and ruin the surprise, but screw it. Check out this near-the-end-of-the-book killer slice of writing:
Suzanne Vale: .... Hey, [my life's] not funny. Actually, it is funny. It f-ing better be. If my life wasn't funny, then it'd just be true, and that would be totally unacceptable.
~The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher
Life's absurd. Weeds explores its silly loco scary side, and Californication explores its wry ironic fun-but-is-this-all-there-is?-ness. Laughing with these characters after a grueling day at work is so cathartic. Ugggh, Mondays are the toughest, aren't they?
Nancy's journey is a hysterically funny joy to behold, even if she's scarcely aware of it. Hank's all too aware of how absurd, fleeting, and amazing the journey is, yet he's scarcely aware of what it all means or if there's any meaning there to find. Hilarious, ludicrous, poignant, meaningful--they're merely moments in time.
Writers tell us stories, bring us along for the ride, and for a little while, we relate, feel, and laugh at the ludicrous and improbability of life. We manage to get through it all--somehow. Laughing lightens the load like nothing else.
