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2015 Roundup!

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Here’s a look back on 2015  for the CIRCO blog. #MakingMemories

Last year, THE AUTOMATION was made available for free viewing and downloading on Goodreads. 

Too Many Cooks was a thing in 2015.

“Geek culture” moved one step closer toward pissing people off.

The pen name Adrian Jones Pearson was mistaken for Thomas Pynchon because of his “Cow Eye Press” novel Cow Country. Has anyone read it?

THE AUTOMATION got reviewed in Tales of the Talisman. Four talismans! 

The TV show Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell came out. Gabbler liked it.

We reblogged this critique of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. It’s spot-on.

James Patterson was a dick. As usual.

The Movie Ex Machina came out and was, like, the best movie of 2015.

The all-female Ghostbusters cast was announced, and B.L.A. had thoughts on it.

The CIRCO blog surpassed 1,000 likes in 2015! 

Jesse Eisenberg showed some love to the footnote. What a guy! 

Aaaaand you can check out the GABBLER RECOMMENDS category for 2015 books we recommend, like Fifteen Dogs.

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: Julian Darius’s Sequart Article on “Too Many Cooks” and Adaptability: ‘ “Too Many Cooks” is a Sublime Postmodern Masterpiece’

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If you are yet to experience “Too Many Cooks,” here it is:

‘It’s hard not to see this as a parody of how shows sometimes radically reinvent themselves, as well as of our current culture of reboots and reinterpretations. Sometimes, people claim that a concept’s “adaptability” illustrates its strength. “Too Many Cooks” demonstrates how weak this argument is, at least on its own. Because there’s nothing to adapt, except the theme music and the idea of too many cooks spoiling the broth.

It’s easy to see some of these title sequences as belonging to shows other than the sitcom Too Many Cooks — shows that reinterpret the original “concept.” But in fact, they are different aspects of the same show. All of these characters interact. The first generic departure, into detective drama, illustrates this concept: what we’re seeing is more akin to a spin-off, depicting the workplace adventures of the member of the Cook family who’s a police officer. Except, of course, this isn’t a spin-off. The title sequence is still continuing, so we’re simply reflecting the fact that Too Many Cooks is such an ensemble show that it has a whole second cast, focused around the police department. In fact, “Too Many Cooks” establishes this idea even earlier, when we meet a set of characters in an office. Even the sci-fi sequence, which feels the most like a reinterpretation or a separate show, is actually just another setting explored on the same show. After all, it’s also part of the same title sequence.’

Read the rest on Sequart.

[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

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