Confession may be good for the soul, but it can be bad for the public image. While our loyal readers may think of us as the font of all b-movie knowledge – no, no! don’t bother to pretend! – the fact is that sometimes we’re just…well, winging it. But no more! For our next Roundtable, we B-Masters will be risking our reputations, baring our souls, and publically ‘fessing up to some of the more embarrassing gaps in our resumes.
Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
#1 by Thomas on July 31st, 2009
Hooray! This looks like a promising one.
#2 by Blake on July 31st, 2009
Yeah, I can’t wait to see how well this roundtable goes.
#3 by El Santo on July 31st, 2009
We didn’t do the usual round of pre-roundtable coordination and dibs-calling, either, so we get to be just as thoroughly flabbergasted as the rest of you at the things we’ll be owning up to over the next month.
#4 by DaveCausey on July 31st, 2009
I can’t wait to see this one!
#5 by The Rev. D.D. on August 1st, 2009
Ooooo, I think this’ll be a neat one.
Not just because of the mocking that will no doubt take place, either. There’s also the….hrmm….the, uh….
OK maybe just for the mockery.
#6 by Baron Scarpia on August 1st, 2009
I wonder what Ken hasn’t seen. Personally, I’m waiting for his review of Myra Breckinridge…
(Yes, I’ve seen it. It’s one of the only three films I’ve seen that I find absolutely intolerable.)
#7 by Gentle Benj on August 2nd, 2009
The b-movie fan in me wants to get stoked for this, but the linguist in me won’t stop geeking out about the “themself” in Lyz’s post.
#8 by lyzard on August 2nd, 2009
I throw myself on the mercy of the court and plead the fact that WordPress hates me: every minor update like this takes me almost as long as writing a review. By the time I get done, I’m so frazzled I don’t know what I’m saying.
#9 by ProfessorKettlewell on August 2nd, 2009
This reminds me of the game “humiliation” which David Lodge describes in ‘Changing Places’…..anyone familiar?
#10 by Gentle Benj on August 3rd, 2009
I was not getting all Grammar Police on you, Lyz, I promise! The emergence of the word “themself” as the reflexive form of the ungendered singular “them” is just really really interesting to me.
#11 by MatthewF on August 3rd, 2009
Will the confession be along the lines of ‘actually I’ve been making these films up for years, there is no studio in Romania’? because that would explain a lot.
#12 by lyzard on August 3rd, 2009
Grammar Police away, Benj – it’s usually me doing that, so I can hardly object!
Using “themself” in this instance is similar to using “their” in place of “his or her”, a cheat to reduce the cumbersomeness of the sentence…which doesn’t make it any less incorrect, o’ course…