Tuesday 27 January 2009

Chiffre

1. Numéro :
Patrick McGoohan, R.I.P.

2. Bingo :

a. e.g "sacré numéro". Sainte Thèrèse face à la mathématique : une relation extatique.

b. Leslie Nielsen, dans Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver la reine, joue le rôle d'un espion. Ouvrant un tiroir suspect, il s'écrie "bingo" (il en sort effectivement d'une grille de bingo).

c. Distraction post-nucléaire pour le congrès (cf. Believer, January Issue) : "if the congress had actually been entombed [in a bunker] for the requisite sixty days, there were lounges where they could have read books or played chess, Scrabble, or bingo."

Monday 26 January 2009

(About a certain) brand of cereal

What is exactly a lucky charm ?

1. Cereal shaped as an infamous lucky charm.
2. Edible objects, shrunk to an edible size.
3. A pun based on food : Lucky Charms don't really bring you any luck.

Related :
In Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, Oprah interviews a Cherrio.

Friday 16 January 2009

Jane Fonda

Tempête sur un crâne.

Saturday 10 January 2009

Melrose

Leçon d'anglais hollywoodien :

"Tu n'as encore rien vu, Amanda, je vais te montrer ce que c'est de faire un scandale" (Peter)

"- On dit que vous êtes le nouveau Bill Gates... (Sydney)
- Je ne donnerai plus d'interviews".

Variation :
"Taylor, you are rich !".

Origami

Things that get folded once - it's a one room apartment - twice - a two room apartment - and so on and it gets bigger.

Folded three times, look, it's a swan, because people who do origami seem to like birds.

Wednesday 7 January 2009

Horloge interne

Intervention de la nature au discours indirect libre.