#sea oak

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We are living the dystopia are ancestors warned us about

[barthfeldman]

SEA OAK ( 2017 ) | 1X01 PILOT

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in 2017 hiro murai (atlanta, barry) directed a pilot for an adaptation of george saunders’ outstanding short story sea oak. glenn close is brilliant as bernie, one of the protagonists, and murai gets the anarchic vibe pitch perfect for 35 minutes of tv gold. but fucking amazon scrapped it, the cunts. what the actual fuck? i mean saunders, like many great literary stylists, should in almost no circumstances be adapted to film or tv. his language, the grasp he has over the short-story form, the way he uses omission are so perfect on the page that adapting to the screen is inherently going to water-down or simplify the original material. somehow, though, murai pulls it off perfectly. like paul thomas anderson with inherent vice, he perfectly captures the spirit of the source text, and it is entertaining too. fuck amazon for not picking this up.

watch it in poor quality here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x68o9xg

ffo: atlanta, subverting horror tropes, perfect literary adaptations, refusing to show your penis for money

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Castle Rock

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Meet Aunt Bernie (played by Glenn Close). Pilot ‘Sea Oak’ Debuts on Amazon November 10, 2017.

Sea Oak, from short-story writer and creator George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo), stars Close as Aunt Bernie, a working-class woman in a Rust Belt city who dies tragically in a home invasion and comes back from the dead full of rage, determined to get the life she never had.

[lovecraftsgarden]

Fucus vesiculosus

Bladderwrack, Rockweed, Sea Oak

DIJUNO? Bladderwrack was the original source of iodine, a chemical commonly used for medical applications. And after a dog took a chomp out of my hand a couple of years ago, it was used to sanitize the wounds. I screamed a lot. 

Good stuff.

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Me Stanley you Jane!