IV Romancing the Officeplace

[John Bailey]

Oh yeah, yo momma snaps are another recurring item.

On a Star Trek tangent - just watched an episode of a local series,
John Safran's Race Relations, that has a great ST riff. (Safran's sort
of an Australian Woody Allen-cum-Sasha Baron Cohen). This week he
tested Richard Dawkins suggestion that Star Trek offers the most
admirable moral philosophy available to us today and visits
nigh-religious Trekkers in the States, one of whom ad libs the line:

'Religion was an improvement on anarchy; Star Trek is an improvement
on religion."

Love it. Also contains an interesting segment on Christians espousing
wife spanking.

Not sure if you can watch it OS. Scroll to the bottom:
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/index

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Richard Fiero writes:
> "I wonder. That's the kind of crap your mom watched, ini't?
> Or my mom. God fucking forbid."
>
> And mine. And that Penny is our moms---if one is of a certain age---
> yet is a hustling DA careerist, might be P's perspective on the explosion of women into the workforce from the 70s on, maybe?
>
> --- On Thu, 12/3/09, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: IV Romancing the Officeplace
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 6:12 PM
>> John Bailey wrote:
>> >Why Ghidrah? Despite the abundance of film and tv
>> references in P's
>> >stuff, IV sees him returning to Godzilla movies several
>> times (which
>> >have already been referred to in earlier novels). Same
>> with Star Trek
>> >- gags thereupon in the last three books. That's too
>> many jokes about
>> >the one show for my taste. Does it suggest lazy
>> recycling or something
>> >more vital about these texts? For my money, it just
>> suggests that
>> >Pynchon is a big old geek at heart.
>> >
>> >Not that there's anything wrong with that.
>> >
>> >On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > Michael B. writes:
>> > >
>> > > "the part of her that I suggested exists, the
>> romantic streak that
>> > > (due to workplace ambitions and sisterly
>> obligations to the
>> > > feminist cause) no longer completely controls her
>> actions,
>> > > probably finds this attempt - and the failure - a
>> bit touching."
>> > >
>> > > and TRP has her cry over a romantic movie (or
>> two). Right on.
>>
>> I wonder. That's the kind of crap your mom watched, ini't?
>> Or my mom.
>> God fucking forbid.
>>
>>
>>
>
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