a guide to the pop culture references in "the paradoxically festive mortality"

[themiddleblog]

- "higbee's department store" is an homage to bob clark's film of jean shepherd's "a christmas story

Comments

[4hour_ramona]

i love these cultural reference primers. thank you!

[corellianjedi]

- "fools, i will destroy you all" was a villain catch-phrase pitched by middleman editor raul davalos as a potential second season replacement for the first season catchphrase "my plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity."

I can't even read that without hearing Mark Sheppard say it in my head [from the Comic-Con table read].

[hematitebadger]

Now I feel like an idiot. I own and regularly listen to "Gimme Shelter," but didn't get the reference because I have never been able to decipher that first line. And deciphering lyrics is my mutant supoerpower!

[4hour_ramona]

happy birthday!