Quick Jab at Ye Cynics
My distaste of the critics of Reloaded, Harry Potter, and many other "lesser" art forms is reaching the state at which could be called well documented. I found a quote today from some friends who sum up my feelings on the matter quite nicely.
"You've got to treasure this shit [new harry potter book]...don't slink home from the solar eclipse and be like, well, I've seen more invigorating natural phenomena."
Just enjoy stuff, man. It doesn't mean the genius of Shakespear or whoever is any less genius, it just might mean that "no, Walter, you're not wrong, you're just an asshole."
Josiah Q. Roe | By Josiah Roe | 05:27 PM
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Wise words. Who said them?
Posted by: mesh at June 25, 2003 05:47 PM
Umm, Tycho over at Penny Arcade.
Posted by: ryan at June 25, 2003 06:42 PM
out of the mouth of babes?
Posted by: JosiahQ at June 25, 2003 10:03 PM
Sigh. I still like the quote.
Posted by: mesh at June 25, 2003 11:10 PM
Great, now everybody who knows it's from the PA crew will be like "oh, well, it's from him. It doesn't matter now." or some lame cop-out like that.
Posted by: JosiahQ at June 26, 2003 10:20 AM
Did Ryan say Penny Arcade? He meant John Updike. There, all better now.
Posted by: mesh at June 26, 2003 11:14 AM
I love The Big Lebowski. What movie is more quotable? Well, I guess you can't quote it around just anybody (what with all the language), but it's still chock-full of great lines.
Posted by: jon amos at June 30, 2003 06:20 PM
You like child who wanders into a darkened theater...you have no frame of reference!
Posted by: JosiahQ at June 30, 2003 07:47 PM
you are like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie...
Posted by: dp at June 30, 2003 08:02 PM
"Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism: at least it's an ethos."
And of course, everone's favorite:
"Shut the f up. You're outta your element!"
Posted by: jon amos at July 1, 2003 02:50 AM
Lady, I had buddies die face-down in the mud so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant! I'm staying. I'm drinking my coffee.
Posted by: mesh at July 1, 2003 11:43 AM
"We may be bereaved but we're not saps!! Is there a Ralph's around here?"
This is going to be the longes blog entry ever now that it's become a Big Lebowski Quote-a-Thon.
The Coen boys are brilliant.
Posted by: gosey at July 1, 2003 12:21 PM
"Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Lio Carria and... up to... Pizmo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Quezon, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Donny. Donny, who loved bowling."
What a damn fine film. I'd forgotten how much I like it.
Posted by: mesh at July 1, 2003 02:24 PM
Walter: And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos.. in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been....we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Goodnight, sweet prince.
Dude: What about that shit about Vietnam!
Walter: Dude, I'm sorry...
Dude: What the fuck does Vietnam have to do with anything! What the fuck were you talkinabout?!
Walter: Shit Dude, I'm sorry...
Dude: You're a fuck, Walter!
Walter: Awww, fuck it Dude. Let's go bowling.
(Thanks to http://whitewolf.htmlplanet.com/bigleb.html.)
Posted by: jon amos at July 1, 2003 03:20 PM
hee hee hee hee hee!
Posted by: gosey at July 1, 2003 03:24 PM
"So what are you saying? When you get divorced you turn in your library card? You get a new license? You stop being Jewish?"
(Thanks to IMDB.
Posted by: mesh at July 1, 2003 03:47 PM
The Dude: And you know Smokey has emotional problems!
Walter: "You mean, beyond pacifism?"
Posted by: JosiahQ at July 1, 2003 03:59 PM
Heh heh heh heh heh....
Posted by: gosey at July 1, 2003 03:59 PM
You know dude, I too dabbled in pacifism at one point. Not in Nam of course...
Posted by: JosiahQ at July 1, 2003 04:01 PM
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