You asked for it, you got it. For those of you who missed our Geek Week performances in Boston on April 30-May 1, we’ve adapted the main presentation from the show into an audio slideshow for your viewing and Overthinking pleasure.
The voices you hear are (in order) those of Fenzel, Sheely, and Shechner, who also came up with the concept and content of this presentation.
I like to think of this presentation as the philosophical bedrock upon which the Mr. T Party movement is built. It’s analogous to conservatism’s 24, liberalism’s West Wing, and the Tea Party’s Disjointed Paranoid Ramblings of Glenn Beck.
Lastly, I’d like to call out one of the many outstanding Photoshopped images from this presentation, for it so well encapsulates both the Mr. T Party and Overthinking It. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the T-Viathan:
Without Mr. T, truly our lives would be nasty, brutish, solitary, and short. We need his Hobbesian python biceps to hold the social order together.
Readers: what do you think? Is Mr. T Fenzel’s meta-rebel or Sheely’s T-Viathan? How awesome is Shechner’s photoshop-fu? How does Mr. T fit into the hegemonic discourse? Is this all a bunch of jibba jabba?
[This post is the distillation of a rambling email conversation. In an effort to keep it as well organized as possible, I have flagrantly collated, rephrased, and outright forged and stolen the words of my fellow writers. Any awkward prose or failed attempts at humor are certainly my fault, not theirs. --Stokes]
Although you wouldn’t know it from the look of things, Lee doesn’t have time to write about EVERYTHING he saw at comiccon. So he tossed this one over to the team.
What you see above is the armband worn by soldiers in the Human Resistance. Or more accurately, what you see is a piece of viral marketing connected to the upcoming Christian Bale movie, Terminator: Salvation. But what does this bizarre hodgepodge of symbols mean?
Resident structural biochemist Shechner got the ball rolling.
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