So I ended up taking Molly out for her birthday yesterday after all. We saw The Ant Bully, which she loved but I thought was pretty generic and a distant, distant third place in the CG ants movies genre. It didn't help much that some of the opening shots were practically lifted from A Bug's Life. But she loved it.
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Later I was being chased/squirted by water-guns.
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I can't adequately express my love for The Venture Bros. I'd never seen it until I decided to try it out on Netflix. For someone with my misspent youth filled with comic books and Saturday morning reruns of Jonny Quest (the show is even mentioned in a poem in Notes), it hits all the pleasure spots with knowing, fatal aim. The show can hit such daffy, absurd heights I can barely stand it. I love the ever-thwarted Monarch, his neuroses. Great show.
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C. Dale has a good post on Keats today, something I've thought about before. Go check it out.
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- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
3 comments:
On Venture Bros.: I've only caught snippets of a few episodes, but I'm pretty sure I saw (the monarch?) speaking to two faces frozen in ice the other night. And the faces were bickering with one another, a la Dante. I thought about emailing E. Brunner about the show but wasn't sure if it would be something up his alley, since, as I said, I've only caught snippets. After your description of the show, it seems like it might be something he'd like. And like something I should put on my Netflix queue, too.
I feel that I have failed you as a friend. I was *sure* I had told you about the Venture Brothers!Thank goodness you Neetflix'ed.As someone who has had revolving VB wallpaper on my pc for some months, I feel a particular love not only for Brock but also the Doc and Doctor O. All I'm saying is watch for the "slut suit," the Brisby ep, and the "Crumbum" crack. Have you seen the Fantastic Four allusion?
I'll stop. I don't want to go down the Total Dork path publicly.
Venture Bros. is such a fun show! I am a big fan of zany.
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