Posted on 07/18/2013 11:58:56 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
In the original Miami Vice television series, Detective Zito is murdered in Season Three. After learning of his death, co-cops Crockett, Tubbs and Switek visit his house, where they discover Zito's collection of snow globes. They look at them in bewilderment, and the clear message delivered by their faces—in as ham-fisted a way as only '80s American television can do it—is "Wow, I guess we didn't really know this guy at all." Cue violins. An as hackneyed as that moment was, it was the first time your adolescent correspondent understood the usage of physical objects as a narrative device in storytelling.
Years later in ID school, professors who apparently knew each other as well as Zito and Switek delivered conflicting messages on this front. One professor would tell you that "Objects exist to tell stories—they tell us about ourselves!" while others said objects were mere intermediaries that we should design to be unobtrusive; the whole "People don't want a toaster, they just want toast" mentality.
It's easy to see the ... that a child from that family would do well in school.
Any guesses as to what that object is? A computer? A television? An iPad?
What if we told you it's a piece of furniture?
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“Are you telling me there are people out there who don’t have bookcases in their home?”
Heavens yes, there are millions of them! And some even read a good deal, it seems to me. (I don’t know what they do with their books, just borrow them?)
And just for the record I’m talking about people in the NYC metro area, I grew up on the east side of Manhattan, I knew some folks whose homes were STUFFED with books (hey it was the east side, even the high end apts. are pretty small) and some who didn’t have a book in the place.
And some have the bookcases, but no books. That to me is really the saddest.
Me, I’ve got plenty of books, but I love my kindle!
“I never forgave the writers.”
I know how you feel, I hate it when they do that.
I’m still ticked off about the end of that bio pic about Babe Ruth (starring John Goodman); it just ended on a needlessly depressing down note. And I’m no big Babe Ruth fan, so why make me depressed because I watched a movie about him?
“Anyone for a thread on which books to fit on just one bookshelf, if you were limited?”
well now you are reminding me of one of the great compliments I ever got, so I’ll repeat it in complete humility.
My first apt. of course I didn’t have too much stuff and only one bookshelf as you say. My brother came over and he said “wow, for only one bookshelf, you have an excellent compiliation”. If you knew what a complete intellectual snob my brother was you’d understand why I was over the moon about that.
I can’t remember what I had, sorry, but I guess it was OK. Pretty sure I had my trusty “Complete Sherlock Holmes” because that to me is the best.
I dunno. Our house is filled with thousands of books. I have a room full of nothing but books—history, mostly, but also art, science, gardening, conservative politics, some classics, theology, and more history. The kids each had a big bookcase for the bedroom and those were full. We didn’t have a working TV, and they saw their father and me reading all the time. Every room has books. I have a substance-abuse problem with books. I read to the children from the time they were tiny.
And still today neither of them are interested. They never liked to read. It is a mystery.
A luge sled and a waffle iron?
That would be perfect, except the parents need to be one of each SEX.
John Diehl wanted to leave the show.
He would change his voice for each character, the scariest (and most fun) was Jacob Marley's haunting voice, and his most gentle was reserved for Tiny Tim.
I would not change that memory for all the tea in China.
Yeap, that is what I said, parents, one of each gender.
I deduce that’s a joke, somehow, but I get fuzzy in the afternoons and I’m not getting it.
Right, I know. The writers owed him a better death.
It’s not at all unusual for us to be watching a movie from the 90s or later, and I’ll say, “Hey, that’s Detective Zito!”
That’s one of the perks of long-time watching. We like doing it backwards, too, when we watch an old movie and see a no-name bit actor who has since hit it big.
‘course it’s only good if the person hasn’t been dissing conservatives, which renders them unwatchable from that point on.
provided they not cursive, n.gga.
St. Skittles needed one more item to be successful—a bulletproof vest. If he had one, there is no doubt that he would have grabbed that gun from the wimpy Peruvian guy and filled him full of holes.
That must be so neat. I've got this "dream" library in my head that I am going to build someday. Floor to ceiling bookshelves, in a two story room, and rolling ladders to get me where I want to go. A really comfy reading chair, table to set my drink (etc) on, a loungy area for the four legged critters and a sound system.
Yep, that is my idea of a happy place. :-)
a suit of armor by the dooe r - a large globe at the center - oh and framed antique newspapers on the wall???
>> “Are you telling me there are people out there who don’t have bookcases in their home?” <<
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Unless comic books count, Obama doesn’t even have books.
ROFLOL! I haven't taken it that far, yet.
The old English formal libraries just do it for me. Until that time, I have just mashed in all the bookcases that I can fit into my house and then discovered the instant gratification of electronic books.
And I have a list from listening to talk radio of books that I want to purchase. I was listening to the interview with James O'Keefe today, about his new book that is out, and had to add that to the list.
:-)
Sooo.. do you know where I can get a suit of armor... cheap? hehehe
Aaaah, the days of my youth and stamp collecting. My interest stopped as quickly as it started when I had accumulated every stamp featuring bare breasted women that my measly budget could afford. Cheaper than a subscription to The National Geographic...............
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