Consider 'Consider the Lobster'

[jbor at bigpond.com]

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTLx_B7iOIM

That was pretty well done, and DFW's Federer piece was good too.

I think many of the contemporary novelists mentioned are acutely aware 
of the new media with which literary fiction must compete, and this 
impacts on both the content and form of their work (and on the image 
they project of themselves and their work) in various ways. Vineland's 
immersion in the langue and parole of tv was, in part, a response to 
this tension, and an attempt (not entirely successful) to move with the 
times and reach a wider audience. TRP's Simpsons appearances could be 
seen as another example of this.

I think it's also a pretty common thing for some people as they grow 
older to become nostalgic for their own halcyon days and the culture of 
that time, and to resent and dismiss newer trends in the arts and 
younger artists. Reminds me of Gustav and Säure Bummer arguing about 
Beethoven and Rossini (440-1), and Gustav caricaturing all the old 
codgers in the opera halls grumbling and "farting through their 
dentures" and only enjoying themselves when they are "drooling away to 
some medley of predictable little tunes".

best