I haven’t decided how much of the RNC I’ll be watching. It might be interesting to watch Schwarzenegger and McCain to see what kind of reception the crowd give them. I’m a little disappointed that the GOOPers aren’t putting at least one right-wing nutjob in prime time. I’d love to see Gary Bauer froth at the mouth about the homosexual agenda and the satanic faith of Islam. I think Alan Keyes should be free as well, since the people of Illinois are pretty much ignoring him. Either one would make great television, but the Republicans seem determined to present themselves as the heirs to the Party of Lincoln.
Kevin Smith is doing a sequel to Clerks. The dialog in Clerks is some of my favorite in a movie. The characters were exaggerated portraits of people in my generation; people I went to college with. It captured that self-indulgent slacker cynicism that defined a lot of us who came of age in the mid 90s. It works because it could have been set in any convenience store/video store in American suburbia and the characters were implicitly critiquing the cookie-cutter consumer culture that had defined our whole lives. I wonder how the sequel will treat the characters ten years later. They said irony died after 9-11, but the events of the last few years seem to belie that notion.
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