Trivialities I'm thinking about

[stonebender]

There's a Burger King commercial that has rewritten the words to "I Am Woman". Turning it into "I Am Man" to sell crappy hamburgers. This bothers me.

I was watching a rerun of ER yesterday morning. It was the episode that Dr. Green left the hospital to die. I realized that the second to last patient Dr. Green treated was the same actress that Dr. Green treated on the premier episode of ER. In fact the patient had the very same complaint, a hangnail. In the first episode, the actress played a very rich but bored woman. In Dr. Green's final episode (well final episode as a doctor, there was the final dying episode) she was a very poor emotionally neglected woman. I enjoyed the symmetry.

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[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I saw that ad. It fit perfectly into my obsession with gendered food, of course.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Of course!

[kshandra]

You have a far more encyclopedic knowledge of ER than we do. gridlore has often enthused about that particular episode, and Dr. Greene's parting shot to the patient ("I have a hangnail! It's painful!" "I have a brain tumor. It's terminal. I WIN."), but I didn't realize it tied back into the first episode.

(Doug used to play his own ER drinking game: One drink for every procedure mentioned in an episode that he's had done. He has to play with soda, 'cause he'd be blitzed before the half-hour mark otherwise.)

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

You have a far more encyclopedic knowledge of ER than we do.

I've got a good memory for faces, but thanks. I do get a kick out of that particular exchange with Dr. Greene (Your spelling of his last name is correct. I goofed.)

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Rewrote that lyric myself many years agone. The chorus ran:

I am not dead, for I can eternal lie,
and (with strange aeons) death itself may die.
When I want to, I'll devour everything.
I am strange (strange!),
Incomprehensible (sible!) --
I am Cthulhu.

I think this was approximately when I (mostly) stopped writing filk, for reasons that may be obvious.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

I certainly like your rewrite better than the commercials. On whether to lament your shortened filk career. I'll reserve comment :)

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

what's a filk?

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

It's like folk music. It's usually a rewritten popular song that includes lyrics that refer to science-fiction or fantasy literature/shows. Science fiction fans got started writing them in the '60s.