Bob Dylan's Christmas Lights: A Scholarly Treatise(merrillmarkoe.substack.com)

51 pointsby NaOH3 anni fa9 comments

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Bob Dylan's Christmas Lights: A Scholarly Treatise

https://merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/dylans-christmas-lights-a-scholarly

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I assume this article is just for fun, a poke at the grand tradition of people overthinking everything Dylan says or does. I hope so anyway, and at Merrill Markoe didn't have to dig through his trash to gain these important insights.

detourdog3 anni fa

Merrill Markoe was an early writer for and big influence on David Letterman.

karaterobot3 anni fa

Yep.

libraryatnight3 anni fa

I found this hilarious, thanks for sharing - I didn't realize Merrill Markoe had a substack :)

CharlesW3 anni fa

For folks who've never heard the name, Merrill played a very important part in the post-Carson late-night TV of the late 1900s–early 2000s (think Letterman and Conan): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill_Markoe

oluckyman3 anni fa

In a similar but visual vein, here’s a Mad Magazine style treatment of the great man’s song Ballad of a Thin Man: https://paulpritchard.github.io/Ballad_of_a_Thin_Man/

denton-scratch3 anni fa

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Boogie_Man3 anni fa

Is this entirely factitious, or did someone actually photograph one of Bob Dylan's houses once a year, layer "parodic humor" on top of it, and then publish it online? If the former, hardy har har. If the latter, I worry sincerely about the wellbeing of the person who completed this strange action, regardless of the layer of "it's just a joke I'm in on" placed on top.

Edit: disregard. I realized I'm just "being a hater" on HN lately which is in the wrong spirit. My bad.

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