Media Department of Hideous Similes
posted by May 9 at 11:05 AM
onI recently flew from Seattle to Florida and back on JetBlue, which means I was exposed to many hours of seat-back cable TV.
I saw many impressive things (I’d heard rumors that The Real World: Denver was composed entirely of alcoholic sex addicts, but holy shit!) but the thing that’s most stuck in my mind is a quote from City Confidential, A&E’s real-life mystery show devoted, in the episode I saw, to the murder of Mia Zapata.
Along with much lovely footage of the Comet Tavern and former Stranger/current Mercury news reporter Amy Jenniges, the episode featured this remarkable sentence, spoken by the narrator in voice-over:
“Finding Mia Zapata’s killer would prove to be as difficult as finding a needle in a mosh pit.”
I don’t know where to begin.
So I’ll start with the factual error: Finding a needle in a mosh pit—in early-’90s Seattle, at least—was not that hard.
Sigh.
Comments
Is that some sort of heroin reference? Poor taste. Boo.
I love City Confidential, but it's hard to watch in the company of others due to its shameless employment of awful, awful similes and dunderheaded geographic generalizations. Georgia: Ice tea simile. Rhode Island: yacht club simile. LA: surfboard simile. And now, apparently, Seattle. Moshing.
Georgia is associated with iced tea? How about associating it with peaches or Scarlett O'Hara or insufferable humidity?
@3: Or Deliverance.
Deliverence was West Virginia.
I love the camp of City Confidential, I think they should take that aspect of it even further.
I beg to differ.
James Dickey was a Georgia writer, and boy did he ever show off the very best of our state.
Ahhh... I stand corrected. THE FILM was shot in West Virginia, and assumed it also took place there.
The film was actually made in northern Georgia, near the Chattahoochie? not sure of the spelling?
Listen people, you're killimg me here. WEST VIRGINIA IS FAMOUS FOR DELIVERNCE..OK? Why is that so? I don't know, it just is! Are the people of West Virginia so starved for landmarks they falsely brag about being home to raping banjo-ists? It sounds like that is the case.
1. Deliverance is set along the Chattahoochie River in Northern Georgia. Where the AT runs through.
2.Weird. I also flew JetBlue this weekend and saw that same special on the missing girl.
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