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Friday, January 07, 2005

Yikes Almighty

Planet Simpson was recently panned by the Village Voice... Primal Screen by Mark Holcomb Hell of a quote, this: "Turner approaches everybody's favorite prime-time cartoon... as if it were a neglected cult item marooned on some backwater public-access station, and the result, while sporadically insightful, is a histrionic harangue." Jesus, why don't you tell us what you really think? Seems to me that if The Simpsons was so universally accepted as genius, someone would have written a book prior to the fifteenth season of the show, hmmm? While everyone who's anyone in New York may be well aware of the show's brilliance and its gifts to the world, at least 70% of the deeply saavy media types we ran into on the various tours everywhere (including NYC) would eventually tip their heads to the side and lower their voices and ask Turner, "You do realize that it's just a cartoon, right?" It might be said that those who can write cultural critiques, do; those who can't, write bitchy book reviews. Even for famously hip publications. But I digress.

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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Aquarian Weekly

Thanks again to JT for this link to a recent review of Planet Simpson:

Aquarian Weekly

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