Funny and nerdly insightful about reading subtext. DO NOT MAKE THESE MISTAKES UNLESS YOU MEAN THEM.
Funny and nerdly insightful about reading subtext. DO NOT MAKE THESE MISTAKES UNLESS YOU MEAN THEM.
Have you seen “Black Mirror”? It’s now streaming on NetFlix.
YOU MUST SEE THIS!
It’s a series by Charlie Brooker originally aired on BBC4. The anthology episodes are heavy satire, using the theme of near-future technology stepping out-of-bounds. It is great SF, funny, and moving. My favorite is “The Waldo Moment” where the producer of a political program premiers an animated bear character who out-Blacks Lewis Black. The bear goes from “speaking truth to power” to becoming actual power. But all the eps are great!
I WISH I COULD WRITE FOR BLACK MIRROR! There’s a special Christmas episode coming on on Beeb4 this month. Can you send me a copy, anyone?
Another reader is absorbed by “The Flesh Sutra”. See what the editor of Pseudopod called “a beautiful, precision timepiece of unease.”
and here is another comedy sketch from My Long Ago,
written by Steve Mamlin, I co-star with James Dempsey, who went on to become James and The Breakpoints.
with Steve Mamlin and Candace Karch
with Ron Foligno in 1993, I think.
From 1991 to 1994, I was in “DQD Comedy Theater”, a sketch and improv group based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This sketch was written by a wry British friend named Mitchell Pearson.