sidetracks
Tue Oct 4 02:47:41 EDT 2011
One great thing about DVRs (or VCRs, too) is that you can pause a show and chase down (obscure) references. If I had been watching "Private Practice (What Happens Next)" live, I wouldn't have stopped watching the show to look up Judith and Holofernes; I couldn't have even paused it to get the spelling of "Holofernes" from the closed captioning. Now were I a religious person, I might have known the name Holofernes; I actually have heard something of the story of Judith before, but probably without the name of the invader. But thanks to the DVR and the handy Internet, I am a bit more educated than I was before I watched this show.
Graphic painting: Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes
[To my surprise, I linked to this (also graphic) when I wrote this entry. Or maybe I wanted the first one then too, and the search returns something different 5 years later.]
Wouldn't that make an interesting photo setup where they have those scenes with holes for faces?
I've mentioned not learning anything useful from watching sit-coms. Do you think there'd ever be a reference to Holofernes in a sit-com?
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One great thing about DVRs (or VCRs, too) is that you can pause a show and chase down (obscure) references. If I had been watching "Private Practice (What Happens Next)" live, I wouldn't have stopped watching the show to look up Judith and Holofernes; I couldn't have even paused it to get the spelling of "Holofernes" from the closed captioning. Now were I a religious person, I might have known the name Holofernes; I actually have heard something of the story of Judith before, but probably without the name of the invader. But thanks to the DVR and the handy Internet, I am a bit more educated than I was before I watched this show.
Graphic painting: Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes
[To my surprise, I linked to this (also graphic) when I wrote this entry. Or maybe I wanted the first one then too, and the search returns something different 5 years later.]
Wouldn't that make an interesting photo setup where they have those scenes with holes for faces?
I've mentioned not learning anything useful from watching sit-coms. Do you think there'd ever be a reference to Holofernes in a sit-com?
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/471061.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]