{"id":24057,"date":"2014-08-27T17:58:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T22:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24057"},"modified":"2014-08-27T21:01:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T02:01:49","slug":"marlow-briggs-ep10-marlow-briggs-and-the-wheels-that-make-total-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24057","title":{"rendered":"Marlow Briggs EP10: Marlow Briggs and the Wheels that Make Total Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptEVthxK8Q8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ptEVthxK8Q8'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>So I guess we&#8217;re talking about the 90&#8217;s today. Earlier we were talking about my DOOM 2 mods. And now in this episode we talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/10,000_Maniacs\">10,000 Maniacs<\/a> concert I went to in 1992, and the time I went to see Stargate in theaters. (1994.)<\/p>\n<p>Anecdote:<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, 10,000 maniacs were touring to go with the release of their album <em>Our Time in Eden<\/em>. They played at Slippery Rock, the college my girlfriend Heather attended<span class='snote' title='1'> Also, both of my parents went to Slippery Rock, and that&#8217;s how they met. Both of Heather&#8217;s parents went there, and met there. Also my sister went there, although she didn&#8217;t find her husband.<\/span> During the concert &#8211; right in the middle of their set &#8211; this guy screams out at the top of his lungs, &#8220;GOD LOVES YOU NATALIE!&#8221; (Meaning lead singer Natalie Merchant.) <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What?&#8221; she shouted back. She was about to launch into her next song, but apparently she felt like she needed to sort this guy out first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GOD LOVES YOU!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was this long silence. She looked at her fellow band members. She still wasn&#8217;t hearing him. Finally she took a guess, &#8220;Can I juggle?&#8221; She shrugged. &#8220;Not really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was a pause. The guy in the back didn&#8217;t have anymore theological advice for her to misinterpret, so they started playing the next song. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the largest group of people I&#8217;ve ever shared a really awkward moment with. <\/p>\n<p>You know how I&#8217;m always analyzing plots and nitpicking and demanding that storytellers know what they&#8217;re trying to say? Obviously I wasn&#8217;t like that as a kid. If I saw a movie and it had lasers in it, then it was awesome. I think Stargate is the turning point. It&#8217;s the first time I walked out of a theater and I knew why I didn&#8217;t like a movie. <\/p>\n<p>(Can&#8217;t remember any of it now, of course. I guess I thought the bit where James Spader figured out how to speak ancient Egyptian in the space of ten minutes was pretty dumb.)<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I think it&#8217;s clear we are completely out of things to say about Marlow Briggs and the Whatever of Bullshit Thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) So I guess we&#8217;re talking about the 90&#8217;s today. Earlier we were talking about my DOOM 2 mods. And now in this episode we talked about the 10,000 Maniacs concert I went to in 1992, and the time I went to see Stargate in theaters. (1994.) 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