I remembered
March 7, 2008
I remembered what else I wanted to talk about. It was only about one minute ago that I finished my last post, but it was getting kind of long so I thought I’d make a new one rather than edit it. It’s about the name of my blog. Someone, somewhere knows this (in fact quite a few people know this, but seeing as my blog readership currently totals 0.0% of the total population of Earth, I’m going to record it for posterity anyway), but Fantasy Bazaar is the name of the comic book shop in the sitcom Spaced.
Wow, what kind of first impressions does that leave you with I wonder?
“What? Comic books! I’m not reading this blog, it’s for geeks and other similar people!”
or
“Hooray yet another blog that spreads the joy of the graphic novel!”
Just to be clear, I’ve never read a comic book in my life (I’ve read a few graphic novels such as Flight but no comics) for no reason other than when I was growing up I was more into video games and novels that comics. That’s all. I mention Fantasy Bazaar not because of its reading material but because of its staff, played by Bill Bailey and Simon Pegg, two heroes of mine. Also as any fans of Spaced will know, it is laced with intertextual references to films, books, TV shows, music and comics. So this is a kind of meta-reference, referencing the show and alluding the show’s penchant for referencing other texts in doing so. Neat, huh?
I’m liking the stream-of-consciousness thing, I think it’s going well. If I’d premeditated this post I probably would have omitted the first impressions bit in fear of offending people (something to which I am, at times, excruciatingly sensitive to) and the post’s realism would have suffered. This way’s better.
That is all.
