even if they are not endorsed by the louse-bitten horsefuckers at HBO, let alone the authorities in Yankton and beyond

Heh. You are *really* good at Milch-speak.

I must say, Jane's history lesson about Custer had me nosing my beverage.

Yep, I'm watching the new season. Of course, I've only seen selected bits of the prior two, but I figure while I've got the interest, I may as well watch the new stuff (and catch up on the old as quickly as I can).

Frank: no kidding. That scene was freakin' awesome, and not just because it was funny as hell, but how it played perfectly into the reality of one of the most damaged people on a show about a town full of damaged people.

You are *really* good at Milch-speak

I thank you, but, seriously, some of the things that pop out of Swearingen's or Farnum's mouths are the linguistic equivalent of watching Chinese acrobats turn themselves into pretzels.

I know. Sometimes I don't understand. And when I do understand, I'm both impressed and appalled at the same exact moment.(And that brain's been on Drugs and almost died. Bad news for those egg-frying cocksuckers, huh?) Language in the Simonverse is challenging too, but he's not trying to be the Bard of Balmer.

I am trying to remember the name of a movie I saw a REALLY long time ago, which I thought was titled "Freaks", but now that I am looking for it I think not.

It was a very strange, black and white film that featured (that I could see) no plot and just footage of deformed, mentally ill, and mentally challenged people in the early part of the twentieth century. It was quite disturbing, both for the content and for the titallating sort of way it was displayed.

Am I craxy, or does this actually exist? (I don't really want to watch it again as it was quite horrible, but I was having a conversation about it and realized that I didn't remember the name)

Freaks was a famous Todd...someone movie. It was set at a carnival, and did indeed feature little people, and people with deformities.

Yup. 1932, Tod Browning. Black and white. I've only ever seen clips from it.

I've seen it...it's sort of a Movement rite of passage. My people love it. I wonder what Browning would think about that.

Freaks has a plot about the scheming wife of a little person (I think she's a trapeze artist or something) who is carrying on with the strongman. It's a fantastic movie with an ending that might be a little laughable by modern standards, but you can practically see many of the tv shows and movies it influenced.

"Freaks" is where the phrase "One of us!" came from. What freaked (pun intended!) out moviegoers of the early '30s is not that Browning set a film in the world of the circus sideshow, but that he used actual sideshow "freaks" as cast members.

See, I thought it was famous! The person to whom I was talking thought I had two heads!