I feel as though i should start out on the story "The Handsomest Drown Man in the World" because i just saw the trailer for Duke Nukem Forever. This would be a game about a super masculine male individual who goes around womanizing, drinking, smoking, and killing aliens... "one of these things is not like the others" as Sesame Street would say. Duke and Esteban show some similar characteristics, they both are idealized macho men. Both Duke and Esteban would make perfect Playgirl models. These two men also share another feature with one another, they both are fictitious. After Esteban's funeral, the villagers all leave for home; after playing an obscene video game the gamers will return to their everyday lives of not caring about naked alien tri-tatas and the destruction thereof.
On a mildly more serious note, one not involving alien breasts, i shall now move onto old Norwegians with wings- I mean angels. Remembering the two of Marquez's short stories, I must, for a moment, ponder sunflowers. Sunflowers are drawn to Esteban's village, they also pop out of a leper's sores after being blessed by an angel; maybe the angel wanted the leper to find that village and so covered him in a sort of compass. coincidence or not, such musings are not my main objective here. I have no odd connection to make to this story, no low brow reference, e.g. Space Balls, Duke Nukem, to draw from at this immediate moment on that angel, but I do have a connection to make on the ending. Anticlimactic endings, they disappoint me, even though I know they are supposed to. I recently finished watching an anime called Gilgamesh, in the end, EVERYBODY died, the world ended, the mad possessed genius got his way and the sky destroyed all life on earth. i felt similarly when the angel just flew off into nothing, "an imaginary dot on the horizon". now for some church bashing, i mean mild criticism. my father's family is Catholic, the bad kind. the wasted time and over emphasis on authority set out in their view or religion is just plain oppressive; They remind me of the priest. they could have a miracle on their hands and completely discount it as a trivial event, unless it happens as a direct effect of their influence, that is. On the other hand, maybe miraculous events have happened to me, maybe I've experienced the divine will unknowingly and just never put any thought into it. Maybe miracles happen all around us all the time and we just don't understand.
Duke Nukem, some disambiguation- NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART i do not take responsibility if anyone decides to watch this, the wasted brain cells are your decision and i did not make this offensive material myself, i just am providing the option to view it if one wishes.
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That video is hilarious. Only in a male audience oriented piece of media would a video spend so much screen time on urinating. I'm working on keeping Duke Nukem and the Handsomest Drowned Man in my mind at the same time. I'm sure Marquez would have something scathing to say about this genre of video games. I'll have to see if I can channel Marquez to find out what it is.
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