Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking/Other Media

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Literature

  • Literary magazine N+1‍'‍s about page: "Interns are involved in...research, fact-checking, proofreading, publicity, mailing, distribution, web administration, and bartending."
  • Steven A. Grasse's "nonfiction" book The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined The World is chock-full of this. He accuses England of everything from World War I, World War Two, Islamic terrorism, and the Opium War to the Piltdown Man hoax, homosexuality, the Industrial Revolution, and *gasp* knighting Elton John.
  • From a recent[when?] issue of Readers Digest: "Three Reasons to be Happy: The divorce rate in the United States has fallen by 13 percent since 2000. The average credit card debt is under $5,000 for the first time since 2002. Scientists have discovered that gorillas play tag."
  • In the very beginning of Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion, he asks the reader to imagine a world with no religion. A world without suicide bombers, crusades, witch-hunts, middle eastern conflicts, persecution of Jews, the troubles in Northern Ireland... and no shiny-suited bouffant-haired televangelists.
    • Not to mention the book's Long List which has been quoted countless times, in which he says, "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."[context?]

Web Original

"Something Awful is a cult that supports drug use, rape, racism, illegal use of firearms, harassment, piracy and child pornography."

  • Inverted in this post on My Life Is Average.
  • On this article, a music critic listing the weird/awful stuff in which Motley Crue was involved, does it twice: "Vince Neil killed Nicholas Dingley of Hanoi Rocks in an auto accident.. Tommy Lee served time for beating up Pamela Anderson... Nikki Sixx served as songwriter for hire to Meat Loaf, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw... Vince Neil's ex-wife accused him of spousal abuse... married family man Sixx slept with tour drummer Samantha Maloney and slammed her for it on his website after the fact... and what the hell is that thing sitting on top of Mick Mars' head? Is that hair?"
  • An io9 article on improbable natural disasters asks, "what would happen if the moon disappeared?" It goes on to describe the resulting earthquakes, volcanoes, chaotic changes in the Earth's rotation with all sorts of weird consequences, and then ends with "it would also be harder to see at night".

Real Life

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  • A Daily Mail article discussing the Glee episode "Britney/Brittany" said it was accused of promoting "Drug use, masturbation, and burlesque". Sure, burlesque is a bit risque... in a 1920s sort of way.
  • This review of The Cabin in the Woods notes that the cast is forced to fight "endless evil, including — but not limited to — zombies, aliens, fearsome monsters, graves, ghosts, grim clowns, grim reapers, dead-eyed dolls, SWAT teams, janitors, more zombies."
  • MacNeil/Lehrer Journalism consists of the following principles:

Do nothing I cannot defend; cover, write, and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me; assume there is at least one other side or version to every story; assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am; assume the same about all people on whom I report; assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise; carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories, and clearly label everything; do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions; no one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously; and finally, I am not in the entertainment business.

  • A t-shirt marketed by the producers of Helluva Boss lists the locations for Verosika's Hell Tour (Verosika being a succubus, pop star, and antagonist on the show), most of them being cities in the Seven Circles of Hell: Pentagram City, Pride; LDS Satanio, Wrath; Beelzehaven, Gluttony; Mint City, Greed; Crystal Stadium, Lust; Levitowne, Envy; Dreamsville, Sloth; and finally, Florida. Possibly the concert in Florida was, in fact, where the episode "Spring Broken" actually took place.
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