The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for December 13, 2014
December 12, 2014
December 14, 2014
Transcript:
Melville: It's the story of a white whale...
Big man: Let me stop you right there. We already own exclusive rights to the Orson Welles biography.
If Melville Had Lived in the 20th Century
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Let’s see, a small-time cartoonist with limited skills ridicules the late Orson Welles, a breathtakingly successful and brilliant American actor, director, writer, and producer by mocking him in the lowest possible manner, name calling, for the purpose I suppose of getting a cheap laughs. Who is going to be your next target Hilburn, the handicapped, elderly, orphans maybe, or are you going to stick with the deceased? After all they can’t defend themselves. I suppose that I will never know because I’ll never look at another “The Argyle Sweater.”
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 10 years ago
I guess Hugh Jabooty is a niche publisher,for books with a …. hmm… a wide focus?
Not really mass market….well, maybe in some ways…or at least they have some rather broad appeal… It all shows in their bottom line.
jk123 about 10 years ago
what a colossal dick
jreckard about 10 years ago
Call me Meal-ish.
NaturLvr about 10 years ago
Slamming the obese, nice…ribbet. :-(
J Short about 10 years ago
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
mackenzie0158 about 10 years ago
Let’s see, a small-time cartoonist with limited skills ridicules the late Orson Welles, a breathtakingly successful and brilliant American actor, director, writer, and producer by mocking him in the lowest possible manner, name calling, for the purpose I suppose of getting a cheap laughs. Who is going to be your next target Hilburn, the handicapped, elderly, orphans maybe, or are you going to stick with the deceased? After all they can’t defend themselves. I suppose that I will never know because I’ll never look at another “The Argyle Sweater.”
Darryl Heine about 10 years ago
How about if J.J. Abrams does a new movie version of Moby Dick?