BlogFox Braindump!
2009 January 15
I don’t have a lot of insightful, funny, lengthy stuff to post, but rather a bunch of odds and ends that don’t lend themselves to lengthy discourse… hence - fear my braindump:
- Digital 21 gun salute for both Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban. Both spent a lot of time on islands. Both had unsucessful experiments with Mind Control. Both recalibrated the suave-meter for their time, and will be missed.
- Matthew Paris makes a spirited case in the Times Online that Tintin was gay. You may not agree, but I guarantee you’ll never look at Thomson and Thompson quite the same way again.
- FilmEsq. is reporting that a settlement might be coming down in the Watchment case. I’m quite curious to see the details to see if it sheds any light on the particularly bizarre past few weeks of filings.
- Okay - entertainment news, funnybooking, legal rambling… all we need to round out the set is some light internet entertainment, perhaps mixed with a videogame reference…
Perfect! Thank you Zelda one-man-choir.
As amusing as Matthew Parris’ article was, I usually subscribe to the “Occam’s Razor” way of looking at things. What is more likely? That Herge secretly made numerous and repeated yet still vague suggestions to his adolecent main character being homosexual? Or that the main character didn’t show much interest in girls because, well, the Tintin stories were directly aimed at an audience of pre-pubecent boys who generally don’t give a damn about girls?
Similar arguments can (and have) been levelled against Sam & Frodo, Ernie & Bert, etc. etc… in fact, pretty much any popular culture creation that involves two close male friends is liable to have the gay argument come up sooner or later.