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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 I / Thomas Pynchon and DS

« on: January 07, 2010, 11:27:22 PM »

I don't think this has been mentioned here yet. Apologies if it has. I could not get the "search" function to work for me.

Thomas Pynchon's newest novel "Inherent Vice" mentions Dark Shadows on page 128. This book is set in LA around 1969, and is full of 60's references, especially TV. The main characters all seem to be, in Pynchon's words, "dopers" who watch a lot of television.

In the paragraph, the narrator tells us that they are watching Dark Shadows and it is "around the point in the Collins family saga when the story line had begun to get heavily into something called "parallel time," which was confounding the viewing audience nationwide, even those who remained with their wits about them, although many dopers found no problem at all in following it. It seemed basically to mean that the same actors were playing two different roles, but if you'd gotten absorbed enough, you tended to forget that these people were actors."

Pynchon either has great researchers or he was a fan.

Calendar Events / Announcements '09 II / Re: SoCal PBS exec shares his childhood memories of DS

« on: December 05, 2009, 10:00:03 PM »

Thanks for sharing this piece, Midnite. I had missed it.

How neat to hear that someone actually named their daughter after Grayson Hall.

Bette

Current Talk '09 II / TV show 'Bones' last week

« on: November 24, 2009, 09:28:40 PM »

Did anyone see 'Bones' last week? I just watched my DVR of the show and I swear I heard Ralph Waite as Booth's grandfather tell Booth that he had been trying to get in touch with his old army buddy--Willie Loomis!

Could the writer of the episode have been one of THOSE kids who ran home, or just a coincidence? Whatever, it's always pleasant to hear ANYTHING that brings to mind DS.

Bette

Calendar Events / Announcements '09 II / Re: Happy Birthday to John in NC!

« on: October 17, 2009, 05:16:44 PM »

Happy Birthday, John!

I hope you are having a wonderful day, with lots of cake!

Bay-ut-tee

Calendar Events / Announcements '09 II / Re: The Diary By That Other Vampire

« on: September 25, 2009, 03:47:04 AM »

Thanks Midnite. That was really fun to read. Loved Barnabas' modern lingo. I also laughed reading about Spike not wanting to confide in a sodding book!