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An open letter to the Internet
Apr. 1st, 2010 10:39 pmDear Internet:
Tonight I saw the film American Grindhouse at the Boston Underground Film Festival. It was an appealing and polished documentarial history of grindhouse cinema, but that's not why I'm writing to you. I'm writing because of the short that preceded it: Porn Guide.
Porn Guide was a brief, fairly amusing mockumentary about how to make a porn film in the 70s. It contained boobs, a makeshift merkin, and, as the seedy director getting a massage and sporting a fake erection beneath his towel, Nicholas Brendon.
Yes, that Nicholas Brendon. Xander Harris. I verified it in the credits.
And yet you, Internet, you have no record of this appearance. Let me repeat: this is the intersection of pornography and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which together make up 83% of the content of the Internet, and you, the Internet, have no record of it. You leave me unable to verify my facts — on April 1st, no less, so I look like a merry prankster.
I am very disappointed in you, Internet. Next you'll be forgetting to mention Cory Doctorow's new iPad-themed Cake Wreck.
Yrs vry srsly,
jere7my
Tonight I saw the film American Grindhouse at the Boston Underground Film Festival. It was an appealing and polished documentarial history of grindhouse cinema, but that's not why I'm writing to you. I'm writing because of the short that preceded it: Porn Guide.
Porn Guide was a brief, fairly amusing mockumentary about how to make a porn film in the 70s. It contained boobs, a makeshift merkin, and, as the seedy director getting a massage and sporting a fake erection beneath his towel, Nicholas Brendon.
Yes, that Nicholas Brendon. Xander Harris. I verified it in the credits.
And yet you, Internet, you have no record of this appearance. Let me repeat: this is the intersection of pornography and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which together make up 83% of the content of the Internet, and you, the Internet, have no record of it. You leave me unable to verify my facts — on April 1st, no less, so I look like a merry prankster.
I am very disappointed in you, Internet. Next you'll be forgetting to mention Cory Doctorow's new iPad-themed Cake Wreck.
Yrs vry srsly,
jere7my
