posted by Guest Writer on Sunday, May 31st, 2009 at 12:30am
[This weekend, we're pleased to bring you two Star Trek related guest posts, this first by André Callot. As always, let us know what you think!]
Eyes, why should you see light who have shown me nothing but darkness? The unrelenting black of space, and also the metaphorical darkness of wanting to bone my mom.
JJ Abrams does not want to have sex with his mother.
I am sure that Mrs. Abrams is a lovely woman, and Gerry Abrams (JJ’s dad) is a very lucky man with nothing to worry about.
In this universe.
But somewhere, in a parallel world where Jim Kirk listens to the Beastie Boys and 9/11 never happened, JJ Abrams has murdered his father, married his mother and is right now wandering around Burbank with a white cane and a pair of dark sunglasses.
No, not really. JJ Abrams seems to worry about that, though.
Fringe and the new Star Trek both spring out of daddy issues. Nothing new about that. Hamlet, Robin Hood and Jesus Christ have benefitted from the power of the story of Oedipus: a story that, according to psychoanalytic theory, is so close to the male psyche that we are compelled, as a sex, to re-enact it over and over again forever.
posted by Think Tank on Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 7:25am
In tribute to this weekend’s release of Up, the latest sure-fire hit from Pixar, we’ve asked our Think Tankers about one of the modern world’s most enduring and picturesque fantasies:
“What is your favorite instance of somebody or bodies getting carried away by a balloon or balloons?”
And they have been, dare I say it, Up to the task. Make sure you weigh in with your choice in our poll or the comments — careful, not too much!
