The playwright Harold Pinter has just won the Nobel Prize for literature.
He might be the most important playwright of the 20th century, and without a doubt, some part of his influence has filtered directly or indirectly into what A Week of Kindness does, so I think that’s just fantastic.
Any sketch writer who wants a thorough education in how to write an uncomfortable moment need only study up on his or her Pinter.
The Homecoming is a good place to start if you’ve never read Pinter. The other two plays in this volume are pretty hot too, and you can’t beat three seriously great plays for 5 bucks.
Do yourselves a favor.
Posted by Nate Kushner at 02:51 AM | Comments (1)
Okay, so time-travel is something very important to A Week of Kindness. Sometimes, I send myself into the future to discover what’s in store for Cap’n Mike. The problem is that the whole time-travel process makes me retarded while I’m in an alternate time.
Undaunted, I decided to travel forward in time to this weekend and read the new Harry Potter novel. I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and sent back this review.
Again, I apologize for the effects of time-travel on the level of sophistication of the review. What I can say is that it is a 100% accurate representation of what happens in the new book.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince-A Review from the Future:
Harry Potter is Harry HOT-ter in Book 6 of the popular wizardry series. Not content to let her characters relax even for a moment, J.K. Rowling delivers a story with more action, adventure, volcanoes, magic wands, explosions, hot asses, racecars, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, kickball games, tanks, celebratory foil balloons, tunneling mole rats, ancient burial mounds, forks and spoons, sand dunes, dueling chefs, magic, Les Miserables references, Scientology, ass tattoos, rabbits with two ears, drawings of Italian countrysides, accurate predictions of the Nintendo Revolution controller, toes, toe nails, nails, fingers, Karl Rove-style C.I.A. operative leaks, books on gardening, gardening itself, philosophizing about gardening, gardens, soups, herbs, heroin, indentured servitude, college applications, individual retirement accounts, asses with faces painted on them, church services with the family, Aspercream, meaningful folk ballads, smoked barbeque ribs, small cats, and games of Quidditch than any other Harry Potter novel that has come before it!
By the time the end rolls around, and Dumbledore is dead and Harry and Ron are gay together, you don’t even care because you have just read the best book ever. And (SPOILER ALERT) Ravenclaw finally wins the house points competition.
I cannot stress enough that this is a wonderful book! As Rowling’s audience has aged, so have her characters. Her narrative is so much more mature—by the time that Harry and Ron are gay together (Hermione is gay too, but she still has sex with Hagrid—FINALLY!), you know that this book is destined for the history books (or history shelves, the place where we probably keep the history books!)
This book makes me so happy, there is a good chance I may travel to a small Mediterranean country and start an olive farm (Not to give anything away, but the reason that this book gives me this urge is that something big happens at an olive farm and it includes two MAJOR characters being gay together.)
In summary:
-Dumbledore dies.
-Harry and Ron are gay together at an olive farm.
-Ravenclaw wins the house competition (after Neville Longbottom loses a point for Gryffindor for farting too loud in potions class—Neville!!!!)
Reporting from the future-Mike
Posted by Mike Still at 04:17 AM | Comments (15)
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