Bob Dylan's Christmas Lights: A Scholarly Treatise(merrillmarkoe.substack.com)
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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.
Merrill Markoe was an early writer for and big influence on David Letterman.
Yep.
I found this hilarious, thanks for sharing - I didn't realize Merrill Markoe had a substack :)
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
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/
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.
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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