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Oh let's mix up some fun with some silly YouTube recuts of movie trailers.

Because... why the hell not?

Darth L. JacksonStar Wars vs. Star TrekWilly Wonka -- Horror MovieBatman Dark Knight -- Joker As Good GuyPixar's "The Terminator"Wes Anderson's "The Fellowship of the Ring"You're welcome.

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Nothing Like Them At All

Some evil genius has done a mashup of the audio from the Inception trailer with scenes from It's A Wonderful Life. Man, you'd think this was one dark, violent movie. Well played, good sir, well played. Via NU ISP classmate Richard Magahiz on Facebook who got it from someone else...



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The Great Thing About The Internet...

... is the wonderful conglomeration of mash-ups. Here, from maryrobinette Mary Robinette Kowal, is the trailer for Jane Austen's Fight Club:



In Truth...

I really do love Jane Austen. And when I write in my bio blurbs that I "teach Physics at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo by day, and aspire to write The Great Science Fiction Romantic Epic in the wee hours of the night", I'm really not kidding. There is my unfinished 1¾ million word epic which I have described as Jane Austen Meets Star Wars, which actually does involve my 29th century hard military SF universe combined with the polite (and mean) society of the Greater British aristocracy, a heroine who is the heiress to the family which owns all the patents on interstellar travel and has degrees in art and engineering -- and a talent for fighting interstellar battles -- and a prince. (evil grin)

I am about to start mining the rough chapters of The Epic for some work this fall, so someday...

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Well, I Suppose It Had To Happen

Forty years ago or so, the people at the Harvard Lampoon published a parody called Bored of the Rings. The faithful were properly offended, but it was funny -- and the sucker's still in print! So back in the late 60s and early 70s, every college and high school student was reading LOTR. If lightning were to strike again, what meme would be attacked in 2009? Why yes, it's:

Nightlight

About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.

Yes, the Harvard Lampoon has done a novel of Belle Goose falling in sort-of vampire-lusting love of Edwart Mullen, a computer geek who actually isn't a vampire, no matter how much Belle wants him to be. No, I haven't read Nightlight, or Twilight for that matter, but I thought I'd pass on the info. (grin)

I read about this in The Chronicle of Higher Education, but their online article is subscription based, so I won't link it here. Amazingly, this is a work of about a dozen people -- and the article mentioned that it was accidentally dumped into the Recycle bin for two days before someone noticed it and saved it. Ooh, vampire love and destiny -- this is the novel which had to be told! (eyerolls)

Let's hear it for parody. (But will it still be in print in 2049?) (Only time will tell)

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