point taken
I'm sure It's very easy to compare the merits of Jackie Chan's 'Drunken Master' with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Both have a character by the name of 'Sam'

Posted by sue at October 2, 2003 1:10 PM

Righteous, man. Do you realise that some people spend their entire university career studying books? With made-up stories and everything.

Posted by pearce at October 2, 2003 2:31 PM

Goddamn hippies and their ivory towers! When will they learn?

Posted by davidr at October 2, 2003 3:20 PM

Are there any books and their surrounding schools of thought which are not too trivial and undignified for you? If so, could you let us know what they are?

Posted by Jamie at October 2, 2003 4:33 PM

Much like pornography, I'll know it when I see it.

Okay, so I tease. The invitation made me laugh, and I thought I'd share it. I'm probably going to go, if that makes you feel any better.

Posted by davidr at October 2, 2003 7:45 PM

Sorry, my question came off more snarky than I meant it. I am actually interested in what you consider non-trivial literature.

As for the talk, I would go too if I'd been invited. You obviously have the right connections. :)

Posted by Jamie at October 2, 2003 8:08 PM

Thinking about it, I don't see why slasher movies are a trivial or undignified topic. There is plenty to be made of the correlation between sports-related bullying and teen suicide in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, or the role of the Norwegian folk story as cautionary tale in Last House On the Left.

To say nothing of myth & metaphor in Evil Dead 2, with special emphasis on Shemping.

Posted by pearce at October 3, 2003 11:13 AM

Pearce: you just posted comment #100. w00t!

Posted by davidr at October 3, 2003 11:52 AM

Let me celebrate with a quick shill.

Uncle Dad are playing at Valve tonight. We are showing off our new bass player, Carla. We go on early - at about 9pm. There's no charge, so there's no excuse.

Posted by pearce at October 3, 2003 1:26 PM

And then there's the On-line International Journal of Buffy Studies (peer reviewed). See http://www.slayage.tv/.

Posted by iona at October 3, 2003 1:39 PM

I know an American academic who teaches a course in horror fiction and has Buffy on her syllabus.

Still sounds stupid to Hulk.

Posted by pearce at October 3, 2003 4:42 PM

Hulk likes to hop!

Hulk likes to HIP-HOP too.

Posted by morgue at October 3, 2003 7:56 PM

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...............

Posted by yeahbrenda at October 7, 2003 11:42 AM

I can understand that you would want to blank out all the invite details, I understand the lack of social grace a gatecrashing pearce brings to a venue, but why can't we look at this beautiful man?

And how for instance am I to troll the internet looking for this wonderful academic's body of work without anything to identify that he is real? I can not live with blurs and no-names.

Is there something you are hiding from us? Are the Jackie Chan truths he has discovered too much for our puny brains?

Posted by Chuck at October 8, 2003 10:42 AM

Is it, in fact, Jackie Chan? That would be *so* *cool*.

Hmm. If a movie actor (say, Sylvester Stallone) became an academic specializing in his own movies, would that be be cool, or sad?

Posted by svend at October 15, 2003 7:03 PM

Ben here, brother of Morgue - just a thanks for a cool reference David: I went and arranged a pass to attend the lecture through VUW! Apologies if that was an unintended result, but I can imagine little thats more appealing than a reverential intellectual analysis of the decline of the kung fu movie.

Posted by Ben at October 17, 2003 4:16 PM