Introduction

I love talking about things: Comparing and contrasting how The Simpsons/Family Guy/Robot Chicken/Venture Bros. recontextualize pop culture, bitching about the elaborate falsities we engage in as part of maintaining a coherent sense of self, and raving about how much Korean cinema kicks ass.

Unfortunately, my roommates get quite annoyed by it. Say, when we're watching a Zombieland and I've interrupted it for the fourth time in five minutes, the first to talk about how Superbad and Adventureland share the same basic weakness, the second to discuss the typecasting of comic actors in Hollywood movies, the third to bring up how Bill Murray's cameo is, like, the best thing ever, and fourthly how the film has an unbelievably bad third act, that characters behave like utter idiots in horror movies (cf. Paranormal Activity) is to be expected, but something as mindbendingly stupid as what the girls in Zombieland do is an annoying contrivance explicitly designed to set up the final action sequence, this annoying contrivance sticking out rudely in a movie that has so deftly played with the conventions of the zombie movie subgenre, comedy seems to have been a fairly longstanding approach to the zombie movie as early back as Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (Braindead overseas, not sure why they changed it I'm going to have to look that up maybe something in the U.S. had already been named Braindead and to avoid copyright issues they. . .)

. . .and you can see how this might be annoying. So I have asked my roommates to simply say "blog it" the next time they are annoyed at a particular tangent I've felt the need to go off on. I will write about it at length in this blog, where they (and all of you fine readers out there) can peruse my thoughts at their own leisure.