2022年11月11日 星期五

spoof, SNL, Snowflake, foot traffic, a swirl of spoof messages and parody accounts

Joycean spoofs, storytelling tribes and an invented canon

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The sin of writing
"Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness", wrote Jorge Luis Borges. "The better procedure is to pretend that these books already exist", to summarize and comment on imaginary books, concentrating on the purity of the idea rather than dirtying oneself with the spadework...




foot traffic


1. people who are walking, not driving cars or riding bicycles: 2. the number of people who go into a shop or business in a particular period of time: 3. → footfall。



Urban Dictionary: Snowflake

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A term for someone that thinks they are unique and special, but really are not. It gained popularity after the movie "Fight Club" from the quote “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and uniquesnowflake. You're the same decaying organic ...


spoof は何か: 1. a funny and silly piece of writing, music, theatre, etc. that copies the style of an original work: 2. to try to make someone believe in something that is not true, as a joke3. an original work that copies the style of ...
【可算名詞】1(冗談に)だますこと,ぺてん.2戯文,パロディー 〔on,of〕.【動詞】 【他動詞】〈人を〉だます,かつぐ; からかう. -


SNL

Live from New York for more than four decades, celebrity hosts join an award-winning ensemble cast to perform comedic sketches, satirical news and digital shorts, alongside popular musical acts. Capturing the pop-culture zeitgeist, the show's sketches and segments often go viral the next day. Over t… MORE

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