TP TV

[Briggs, Michael]

        I've been feeling kind of uneasy over the fact that TV does seem to 
        be the common ground for a great many folks on this list -- even,   
        dare I say it, more so than the works of TRP!  (it always seems to  
        spark the longest, most heated debates).  Or am I just being        
        paranoid?
     
     Thank God someone said it first! No, Greg, you're not being paranoid 
     about all the TV talk -- a novice Pynchonhead, I just joined this list 
     last week, all eager to talk about GR and other books I'm becoming 
     unhealithly obsessed with. Instead, I find myself entangled in this 
     miles-long thread about "uncomfortable" and "subversive" TV. The 
     Simpsons, for chrissake.
     
     I didn't want to sound like a jerk, but -- Andrew Dinn's Disgusted 
     English Dandy Drill notwithstanding -- it's driving me crazy. Can
     we talk about something else, please? 
     
     I'll even go first (and forgive me if this is a stupid novice 
     question): Any thoughts about why the songs in GR have-such twisted 
     meters and-hyphen-a-tion? Is it just a somewhat-annoying attempt to 
     mimic sung phrases, or an attempt to satirize this technique?  
     
     That being said, howdy foax! Name's Michael. I live in DC.