IV Killing Puck

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Dec 15 21:42:21 CST 2009


On Dec 15, 2009, at 7:07 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> As one of P's major sources for the hertical, it does apply. Of course
> you'll need to read it to figure that out.
> Rougement explains how love is only as immense as the barriers that
> prevent its fulfillment.
> What prevents Larry & Bigfoot from forming more than an alliance?
> Several things,as others have noted, stand in the way.
>
> MOre important, I contend, this ain't no Lethal Weapon III homoerotic
> postVietnam flick. Unless the course of love is being hindered there
> is no 'romance;' and it is romance that we revel in. And, Zoyd &
> Hector, Larry & Bigfoot, are romantic "partners." The tension, the
> delays of passion, an unhappy mutual love. Hollywood must genderblend
> or unstraighten the formula to meet the passions, the heretical. So,
> gay cowboy movies.  Pussylicking and Pink Prisons. It's Romance.

I was looking for Doris Day's "I'll Take Romance" but this will do in  
a Pynch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ar9Q0Eru4




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