TP TV

[davemarc]

At 04:45 PM 7/9/96, Michael Briggs wrote:
>
>        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.
>
Briggs, eh?  Wasn't that the name of some characters on *Twin Peaks*?

Couldn't resist,

davemarc