4 months ago on January 05, 2012 at 12:30pm
Posts tagged david mitchell.
David loves Pizza
A Sausage In Time
[submission from silhouettic]
On a loose and pungent morning, David sat in a cafe. It was Valentine’s Day and he was all alone. His member ached in sorrow for the secret love that he could never share. How could he expect Pizza to love someone with a dry phalange?
Warmly, he began to recite a poem he had composed. “Ah, my love is like a moreish salty pepperoni, all on a summer’s day. I wish my Pizza would caress me, in his own irresistible way…”
“Do you?” Pizza sat down beside David and put his hand on David’s digit. “I think that could be arranged.”
David gasped ingenuously. “But what about my dry phalange?”
“I like it,” Pizza said haphazardly. “I think it’s intimidating.”
They came together and their kiss was like pizza straight out of the oven.
“I love you,” David said lithely.
“I love you too,” Pizza replied and caressed him.
They bought a cow, moved in together, and lived sleepily ever after.
4 months ago on January 02, 2012 at 01:26pm
Just a quick post of my thoughts on that blackface sketch. Scheduled blogging will continue henceforth.
Essentially THE BLACKFACE is never a good thing to include when you’re apparently trying to make a sketch about how racism is bad (though actually this sketch ends up being more of a pat on the back for white folks because seemingly we all now know that obtuse racism is racist and therefore it’s totally hilarious now because everything is all better of course!!!!!), it implies that we all now know what is racist and are mostly now not racist - which of course comes from a place of immense white privilege and ignorance and is simply incorrect.
The “irony” or “addressing racism” bit of the sketch is extremely thin and as I’ve said above, exists on the same assumptions that allow for all the fuckery present in Family Guy, for example, and was the same basis for a “joke” somebody I know made of; “oh we have an extra chromosome, I always knew men were superior” - because the “joke” only makes sense in a climate in which there has been grave historical oppression, but purports to be funny precisely because it claims that that history has been almost or entirely eradicated or overturned in modern times, thus further marginalising the target group by erasing their modern lived experience of continuing oppression, whilst bolstering it’s white audience’s assurance of their own false lack of socialised bigotry.
4 months ago on December 29, 2011 at 06:51pm
6 months ago on October 22, 2011 at 02:30pm
Do I even want to know what Lee meant by this?
