Here’s the YouTube link. It’s not pretty.
Tony is very, very sick this week. Also William is here. His life is great, he’s sleeping in his own bed, life is awesome, while Tony just scrapes by. So sad. Also, we give a heartfelt plea to a refilling of the Hat. The Hat is empty! Panic! Enjoy!
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I have only had Peanut Butter and Cheese in one way, those little cheddar snack cracker sandwiches with the super dry almost peanut butter filling.
I lived on Peanut Butter and Bacon sandwiches all the time I was stuck at the U. They were the only edible things on that menu.
Ooh! I love those peanut butter and cheese crackers. I might be sold..
Also, I’m with Tony on screw the Warrens. We did try watching The Conjuring for the reason you mentioned, that it’s so far removed from reality it’s probably okay… and it’s just boring as hell. I feel fine as a horror fan to skip it.
As a kid, William was interested in the archetypes and motifs of horror.
I find this sentence really funny, and want to submit it as a sentence that kids need to translate in foreign language courses.
The context for this comment is that I have my students read an article about horror in Cowboy Bebop and the article speculates that in an episode of Cowboy Bebop called Pierrot Le Fou, the writers play with the expected narrative sequence of horror which generally is:
1. Hero is menaced by supernatural other.
2. Hero learns information/origin story of supernatural other
3. Hero defeats supernatural other based on acquisition of knowledge
In Cowboy Bebop 2 and 3 are deliberately separated such that the Hero’s team learns the information, but the Hero doesn’t get the information until the other is defeated in what seems like a random/absurd way.
I talk about this with my students in terms of a general observation that Western cultures see more power in human knowledge than cultures rooted in Shinto or Buddhism.
And I think there’s a connection between Detective Stories and Horror stories in this central role of power/knowledge. The main difference is that Detective Stories are about resolving fears/anxieties about the material whereas Horror stories are more about resolving fears/anxieties about the transcendent.
Coincidentally, I’m watching that episode with my wife right now.