Dr Karma
January 25, 2009
gotta love faux 70s
Look Around You
–this is a quirky British thing that’s showing on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. They’re showing two episodes tonight and hopefully they’ll show more. Basically, the show is a parody of those awful films you used to have to watch in middle school about various subjects, but with that British . . . something.
The Simpsons–duh (review of said new episode will be forthcoming tomorrow)
Flight of the Conchords–even if you’ve never seen one, you’ll be fine. One of the best shows ever. Even the minds behind Spaced say so (you’d know this if you’d watch their q&a on the dvd, like I did).
PBS has a documentary on Haiti. Unless you’re Tiffany, you don’t know enough about Haiti, but you really should. This is especially true if you want to know anything about the U.S., because we have shaped Haiti in almost unimaginable ways. If you want to see a piece of that, watch this.
this pic works on so many levels for me
Dr Karma
January 24, 2009
MacHomer, my absolute favorite blending of Shakespeare and Simpsons, is getting a New York run. I’ve seen the play twice (and it’s amazing–pee in your pants funny). It’s postmodern, fun, cultural, and political (some of the jokes change each week).
Readers: have you seen it, do you want to see it, if you’re in New York, how are you going to thank me for telling you to go see it?
Check out the website here: http://machomer.com/news/56 If you go to the main page, you can see clips of the show!
Dr Karma
January 18, 2009
By popular demand (see Courtney, you’re popular!), my blog is here at last.
We’ll see whose reading and see how it goes. I do respond to peer pressure, so comment often! (Just don’t try to get me to smoke.)
It occurs to me that this slightly more public site (more public than facebook and myspace) may get new faces, so maybe we should have a glossary.
“at school/work”–I teach writing and literature at a university.
“Du”–my best friend & co-author
“the book”–current writing project by famous Simpsonologists, Du & Dr. Karma
“Ken”–due to Ken’s work putting this site together, I won’t call him btp (boyfriend-type-person) here. (He probably doesn’t like that name because he wants to be htp.)
“the boy”–my teenager
“book club”–my weekly group of book lovers and friends. Formally, we are the Margaret Atwood Book Club of Davis (as made famous in the credits of the film, Julie, Julie), though we read other authors, too.
“Isis,” “Osiris,” “Mahahes”–the cats
“The Monkey”–the monkey
