Not a Number

Oscar Gold

Everything listed here is, at least as I can see it, a property of someone else. People, Places, and Predicaments were created by someone else(r). [Insert obligatory boilerplate.]

    What makes The Villain?
    ( the Killing Joke (comic) / Dark Knight (movie) )

    Two adaptations of the 'Joker' origin story sit on either side of the 1999-2000 changeover

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    The End of Adolescence
    ( Ender's Game (book) / Neon Genesis (anime) )

    No longer youth and not yet old, two exceptional young people lead others into the unknown

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    U 'Grok' ME?
    ( the Ren & Stimpy Show (TV) / Rocko's Modern Life (TV) )

    Is companionship the only reality or the only illusion?

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    the Lonely Path
    ( Sailor Moon (anime, esp. s1) / Dragonball (anime, esp. versus Piccolo) )

    Plasma projections persist as the penultimate power of the penitent & perky PC

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    Mister Scrooge
    ( Christmas Carol (Muppet movie) / unknown )

    When a cold wind blows it chills you -- chills you to the bone. But there's nothing in nature that freezes your heart like years of being alone. It paints you with indifference like a lady paints with rouge -- and the worst of the worst, the most hated and cursed, is the one that we call Scrooge.

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    fear & loathing
    ( the Brave Little Toaster (movie) / WALL-E (movie) )

    If we teach a machine how to love, we must prepare for the eventuality that they succeed

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    Not Only Talking Animals
    ( Watership Down (book) / the Secret of Nimh (movie) )

    Both are adventure stories about ordinary (people) pursuing meaningful changes to their society

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    for the Love of Dog
    ( all Good Dogs Go to Heaven (movie) / Gay Purr-ee (movie) )

    the fetishization of the Foreign takes 'He of the Nose' around the world and back again

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    Freedom w/o Wisdom corrupts
    ( On the Road (manuscript) / the Wolf of Wall Street (movie) )

    Youth is Wasted on the Yuppie

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