I like the direction this is going in.

That’s hellaciously funny, Michael; and the unfunny part is the “o’course” which implies no Fool of Keyboard Borne can be harmed, even by yo’ own coke, which is a la someone “just not true” in a sense *I* will pree-cisify. You, Berube, are *neither* Foxy (to?) Brown, Greil Marcus made good, or all up in my bizness on occasion; just a “sharper” that clews those who have the blews non I’M FROM NY AND CONSEQUENTLY AWESOME — a story untold, true but unknown *by me*, and really the advice is to stop wasting people’s time with dangeroids like this.

Those truly devoted to Internet Traditions know that everything is better with lolcats, even Twilight and New Moon

that is brilliant, and also depressing. we used to be so much better with evil.

i can’t tell whether this shows that our decadence has degenerated, or that our degeneracy has decayed. anyhow, there’s been a real falling-off in our fallen state.

Anytime, Christian. And while I’m complaining about the domestication of this novel, I’d just like to add that I am good and tired of people whitening Heathcliff. Really. Dark and brooding and somewhat Irish just doesn’t get at it.

So far as I can see, only one production even came close.

Twilight parody with glitter –

Sparkledammerung.

Salient, you aren’t actually Randall Munroe, are you? That last comment was dead on for one of the alt-text comments.

While, as a musician, I may well be missing something in the Wuthering angle, the Sonata in Bb has definitely always been considered sublime, funky, and tempestuous. This is due in part to Schubert’s profligate use of mediant and semitonal functional harmonic relations (the most familiar is probably the lowered submediant in the opening of the first movement), to the unorthodox tonal layout of the movements (the second movement is in c# minor), as well as to the references to some of the composer’s own songs and perhaps even Schubert’s autobiographic story Mein Traum. But most of all, the work (like all three late sonatas) invests its constrasting elements of statis, continuity, and sudden shifts in tonality held together by cyclic elements in holding a thread — and perhaps a narrative thread at that — throughout the work. The tempestuous journey taken by that thread makes it abundantly clear that Schubert had his funky on.

The Sparkledammerung posts are not just parody, they are the best explication yet of the Mormon elements in the Twilight series. The combination of mockery + literary/critical exegesis + deliberately bad Photoshop + religious/social insights = THE FUTURE OF CULTURE CRIT. Take notes, Michael. If you can do this for “The Rise of Silas Lapham”, the world will be the mollusc of your choice.

Yeah, I remember that Michael. But didn’t the mathematicians get embroiled in a beef with the Butcher’s International Benevolent Association and the Bouillon Brewers Cooperative over who had rights to the cube offense?

In any event, I believe christian h is a mathematician. We could hook him up to an Official Internets Offense-0-Meter and see whether or not he rings the bell on that one. If so, I’ll donate a copy of Brother West to the Bourbaki Home for Imaginary Maths.

The Fondue Foundation? After all, you always were such a cheeze wiz, Michael.

I always found the funky and sublime aspect of that Schubert sonata to be the triplets against dotted eighth note rhythms. Assuming I’m thinking of the correct Schubert sonata in B-flat.

Sorry Bill but my offense-o-meter is broken. Cube away, if that’s your thing. Michael, on the other hand, clearly is a square.