Cheney is "The Iago of the past eight years"

[cimorene]

So, I was going to write a mini-primer with a title something like, "How To Read Dean/Castiel for People Who Aren't Up on SPN Canon and Don't Want to Be, or: I Read a Really Long Ship Manifesto So You Don't Have To". Yeah, but then I got distracted and I haven't written it yet. I still want to, not because I think it's a service that the world really needs so much as because it should be kind of funny. But for now, you can just have this link.

rosaparksofblog, the lj feed of The Rosa Parks of Blogs, a blog whose entire purpose is to collect silly constructions of the form "The X of Y". This was linked yesterday on languagelog and I fell in love. Observe:

• The Keith Richards of the cat world


• The Barry White of the apocalypse


• The Spice Girls of the ancient world


• The Britney Spears of the planets


• The Ozzy Osbourne of the banking world


• The Courtney Love of yards


• The Chuck Berry of nationalism


• The Johnny Cash of Communism


• The Johnny Rotten of Chinatown food courts

Comments

[thehoyden.livejournal.com]

I would enjoy that mini-primer, if only because I am interested in all your delicious recs for these stories but can't watch Supernatural because I'm a gigantic horror wimp. I mean, I could read the manifesto myself, but I suspect yours would tell me what I really need to know.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, don't waste your time!

I don't like SPN partly because I find horror boring, and partly because it is apparently produced by the same WB Dialoge And Direction Machine that also was responsible for Smallville. In otherwords... it's bad in a really specific and annoying way.

But Wax and her bud used to have marathons and watch together every few weeks, so I am fairly well half-versed in canon up to the last season the way one is when one's spouse enjoys something publically. I didn't actually put on headphones or leave the room or whatever. It probably helped a bit with the ship manifesto, which is sort of written as if the manifesto for people who're already fans of the show had sex with the manifesto for kindergarteners who have no concept of interpretation of motivations AND haven't ever seen tv at all.