pynchon-l-digest V2 #1333

[Dave Monroe]

... er, Pokemon 2000?  For the short introductory film, they left out the intrusive
narrative voiceover this time, leaving a blissful, largely sense-and/or-logic-free
twenty minutes of the little beasties rambling around saying their names over and
over again.  Unfortunately, they also left out the psychedelic "Laugh-In"-style
inserts of the so-called pocket monsters marching about on kaleidoscopic
backgrounds.  You win some, you lose some ... but the actual feature was even less
interesting this time, lacking even the occasional interesting moment of the first
full-length film, wherein Winnie-the-Pikachu, in an interesting enactment of the
Christian ethic of turning the other electric red cheek, got hisself slapped so
silly by an evil clone an ex-military acquaintance of mine burst into tears and
cried out, "Pika!," in a theaterful of upset children and their bemused parents (or
was it the other way 'round?) ... and then there's Snow Day ... but, hey, thanks,
Doug Millison, I believe it was, for bringing to my attention that Oklahoma City
University Law Review "Pynchon and the Law" special issue (Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall
1999), got it in the mail yetserday, and it is well worth the measly sawbuck I
shelled out for it ... absolutely delighted, indeed, and, apparently, there's a
Shakespeare and a Ralph Ellison issue as well ...

Paul Mackin wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 FrodeauxB at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Hey, what happened to the Pynchon sighting stories? Especially the ones about
> > that room? They were much more enjoyable than those banal, hackneyed
> > repetitive racism-slavery debates,
>
> Oh it's nice to trot out all the cliches now and then just so we won't
> forget any of them but what's really needed is a new movie to extoll the
> virtues of or pan. Like on the scale of Eyes Wide Shut or Magnolia.
>
>                         P.