Tim & Eric videos

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 5 08:22:26 CDT 2013


If this had Pyncho's blessing, then he surely meant it as a big joke on his
readers.  But it isn't even remotely funny...

On Thursday, September 5, 2013, John Bailey wrote:

> But it's completely antithetical to Bleeding Edge, and Pynchon's
> writing in general. Not in a dialectical way...
>
> The trailer really feels like the work of someone who not only hasn't
> read this book but hasn't read anything by this author. Normally I'd
> champion that original position but I can't figure how this thing came
> about. Is the dude Jackson Pynchon, perhaps? I can honestly say that
> the trailer has almost nothing to do with the novel...
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > O yeah......this way it is REAL! ....so the doers say...
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Sep 5, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Someone who knows (some of) this kind of online stuff told me that the
> Bleeding Edge trailer is in
> >> An online tradition. Perhaps started by Tim & Eric YouTube and similar:
> willfully low-production value....point of that is part of the
> irony....which he describes, as the trailer is, as " irony squared"
> >> This is hardly worth doing better because.....why?....who has
> time....it is just for fun anyway.....
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
>
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