Comments for L.R. Burt

Comment on All in the Details by lrburt

lrburt — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:31:38 +0000

The rest of the show was fine, but when it segued into the sketch, the sketches were just poorly written.

Maybe they were just trying to make it convincingly SNL-like.

What universe is this when SNL and Studio 60 both exist, and the West Wing was a show, and Allison Janney was on it having a fight with Timothy Busfield without acknowledging that he was Danny, because Bradley Whitford is a totally different character also named Danny?

That happened in an episode? I don't remember...

Comment on All in the Details by Alyssa Keysor

Alyssa Keysor — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:03:03 +0000

Here's my beef with Studio 60: They shouldn't have tried showing the sketches. The rest of the show was fine, but when it segued into the sketch, the sketches were just poorly written. (Maybe I'd think the same thing about the West Wing if I actually knew anything about politics.) Also, one episode made my head explode — What universe is this when SNL and Studio 60 both exist, and the West Wing was a show, and Allison Janney was on it having a fight with Timothy Busfield without acknowledging that he was Danny, because Bradley Whitford is a totally different character also named Danny?

I love the first four seasons of the West Wing. The last three seasons were still better than a lot of things on TV, but they didn't live up to the first four. You'll see the seventh season and think, “Wait, is this a rerun of the Obama/McCain race? Wait, didn't this air before the campaigns started, though?”

Comment on Fiction: Dust to Dust by lrburt

lrburt — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:41:09 +0000

Having never read Kipling (I really am the worst English major ever), I don't know if this is his version or Disney's – but are you suggesting Paul was hypnotized by a snake? (Hey, did you check Genesis 3? Because that pesky serpent appears there, too.)

Comment on Fiction: Dust to Dust by Greg

Greg — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:30:05 +0000

Haha. “Something like scales” fall from Saul's eyes later in the chapter, so maybe that was seen as a reference to the snake?

Comment on Fiction: Dust to Dust by lrburt

lrburt — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:35:54 +0000

LOL Is there anything in Acts 9 about the Law of the Jungle?

Comment on Fiction: Dust to Dust by lrburt

lrburt — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:34:51 +0000

Thank you, Angela! This piece was kind of an exercise in writing place and carrying a motif, so I'm very pleased you think it worked! Hope you had fun at Panty's.

You know, I don't think I actually read On Writing all the way through. I should do that!

Comment on Fiction: Dust to Dust by Angela

Angela — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:48:02 +0000

Lisa, I enjoyed reading this story! The dust motif was interesting. I thought about it today when I went to J.C. Penney.

I've never read anything by King except for his On Writing, as well. I thought it was a really excellent book (should re-read it).

Comment on Fiction: Dust to Dust by Greg

Greg — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:13:32 +0000

I like this. I've never read any King myself before, either, so I can't say one way or the other whether this sounds like him. However, I can say that evidently anything that uses enough biblical allusions or Christian language -- from an excerpt of C. S. Lewis' The Four Loves to a scholarly paper discussing the crossing of the Red Sea to my class project from "New Testament Narratives in Italian Painting" -- sounds like Dan Brown, according to that website. But if you go beyond allusions and put in entire biblical passages, you find that Acts 9 was written by Rudyard Kipling. Little known fact!

But that thing is kind of addicting. Here are some of the highlights based on random different things I've written:

Leo Tolstoy
David Foster Wallace
James Joyce
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
H. P. Lovecraft (sci-fi theme much?)
Dan Brown

Comment on Just Trying to Help by lrburt

lrburt — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:32:05 +0000

I nearly asked her at what age she fed her children sticky buns, and are they diabetic now?

You can call me Mama any time, Gilpin.

Comment on A Contest! by Gilpin

Gilpin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:00:01 +0000

"Somebody get me out of here!"

or...

"If their technique doesn't improve, my hair's never going recover!"

or...

"This must be what they call a hair-raising experience??!"