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Iambic verse from Monday morn - what fun
I stumbled across this Pulp Shakespeare wiki this morning and found it a supreme timewaster for a rainy Monday. It started out as conversion of scenes from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction into iambic pentameter and quickly spiraled into scenes/dialogue from other movies.
I found scenes from The Godfather, Star Wars, A League of Their Own, Dirty Harry (“Is Fortune kind, that god of chance?/ Is the will of luck with thee, o punk?)”, an Abbott and Costello scene, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, The Big Lebowski, Glengarry Glen Ross, MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” done as a sonnet, an episode of “Friends,” Blade Runner, Jaws, “The Simpsons,” Clerks, “Star Trek,” “Law and Order,” Alien, Robocop, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” Spaceballs, There Will Be Blood (“My fellow abbot whom I’m soon to break / My drainage hath consumed your whole milkshake”), The Blues Brothers and more.
Language is a bit raw at times - with Tarantino and Mamet parodied, how could it be otherwise? - but it’s an impressive bit of collective comedy that shows maybe illiteracy won’t be our future … It’s also the daily piece of evidence that shows the Internet may be a wash when it comes to worker productivity …
Me, I’m doing good to put a blog header into meter.
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By mikey
May 6, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
There is a discussion going on on Carol Dugats East Waco blog about a Jazz/Blues/Soul Festival to be held as a block party on MLK or Elm st. I suggested that it be called the “George Spratt Sprattattack Memorial Blues Fest” after the late George Spratt. Another idea was to build a dinner club named after Waco’s own Blues legend Classie Ballou on Elm St.. Some excellent ideas are being bounced arounded, come join us. My toes are itching and my mouth is watering about the very idea of it.