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redux: Deadwood as creation myth

by Rob Friesel

Coming to Deadwood‘s anti-climactic finale last night, I decided to append a few follow-up notes and thought questions to my earlier assertion that the show was David Milch’s attempt at a purely American creation myth: Upon further reflection, Milch is attempting some important inversions on the creation myth paradigm.  We’ve already discussed how his women […]

Deadwood as Milch’s attempt at a purely American creation myth

by Rob Friesel

Work with me here:  When David Milch hallucinated the opening scene to what would become Deadwood, when he gathered up his personal assistant(s) into a darkened room and reclined on the couch to spill forth from his amygdala exactly what he was seeing beyond his third eye, he was leaking his fever-dream vision of a […]

take what you can get

by Rob Friesel

It’s a convention almost as old as the web itself.  If you need some graphics to go along with your story, you just go out and find them.  We crib images from each other all the time.  I’ve done it.  You’ve done it 1.  It’s just something that people do.  Right? Maybe in the Internet’s […]

breakfast

by Rob Friesel

Sniped from the del.icio.us home page: “Breakfast” is a photo series by Jon Huck.  Pretty damned interesting, too.  While I wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s a particularly novel approach or subject matter, it is extremely well-executed.  I’m captivated. Also: for all the diversity he represents here with respect to the food choices, let’s not kid […]