Showing posts with label Just an idea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Just an idea. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

More Free Ideas

This is just another great idea that we've had, although this one is ruined a little bit by Kelsey Grammer.
A couple of years ago, I was reading Charles Bukowski's "You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense." It wins the award for having a great title, but it was depressing. Not really depressing in the way that all of Bukowski's poems are depressing, but depressing because it was written near the end of his life and it definitely reflected that fact. About half of the poems were about how he didn't have anything to write poems about. The rest of them were about things he did when he was younger, how much he used to drink, and setting his garbage can on fire. Throughout the poems, his wife hovered on the periphery, not really doing anything but occasionally yelling at him or something. Naturally, this all spelled one thing to Alex and I: SITCOM!
Each episode of Untitled Bukowski Project would begin with Bukowski sitting at his desk, pencil in hand (never a computer. He called them "electric typers"). Some Bukowski-ish stuff would happen over the course of the next half hour. He would set the garbage can on fire and his wife would have to put it out. That would be the great catchphrase: "I don't know why you're always setting this garbage can on fire." And at the end of each show, Bukowski would recite one of his poems to the camera while the audience (because each episode of Untitled Bukowski Project is filmed in front of a live studio audience) laughed.
Obviously, I planned on calling this show HANK. But I guess Kelsey Grammer beat me to it. You win this one, Grammer.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Sequel!

I'm assuming you've heard about the J.D. Salinger lawsuit. Apparently, some guy wrote a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye and J.D. Salinger got pissed (people should know not to mess with notorious recluses). So he sued him. Good for you, J.D. Salinger. You are striking a blow on behalf of people everywhere who are tired of shitty knockoffs of classics. Anyone who's been to a bookstore lately (probably not J.D. Salinger) knows that there are countless books based on the lives of characters from Gone With the Wind, Jane Eyre, and (of course) Pride and Prejudice. Seriously, Target stocks like 50 books and about 25 of those have the words "Mr. Darcy" in the title. Who wants to read about the less important Bennett sisters? Or about what Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth did after they got married? Those books should all be retitled Yawn. Zzzzzz. Oh, Sorry, I Fell Asleep While I Was Reading Your Fanfiction.
But anyway. I know that I could easily look up the title of this Catcher in the Rye knockoff (I guess there's this thing called Google?), but I choose not to. Instead, here are some guesses as to what the title is:
Catcher in the Rye 2: Still Catchin'
What I Caught in the Rye
Catcher in the Barley
Probably No One Would Have Paid Attention to This Book if it Weren't for J.D. Salinger's Lawsuit

Catch-22 (already taken, so now there could be two lawsuits)
I'm sure you have some ideas. Let me know!
 
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