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December 12, 2009 1:23 PM   Subscribe

SLYT. '99 LA Weekly Article. Boing Boing

I was shown these videos by a friend and felt compelled to investigate - thus the article and the Boing Boing post.
posted by Esoquo (28 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Somehow that lady seems straight out of a David Lynch movie.
posted by dunkadunc at 1:52 PM on December 12, 2009


Scratch that. It's Lucille from Arrested Development, gone horribly wrong.
posted by dunkadunc at 1:55 PM on December 12, 2009


That is very sad.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 2:02 PM on December 12, 2009


In reading the L.A. Weekly article I can't help but wonder if Royce is nothing more than a poseur. Whatever the case, at least the two of them have an enduring friendship -- one which they hold in high regard.
posted by ericb at 2:08 PM on December 12, 2009


I believe that woman on the right is Don Imus.
posted by found missing at 2:10 PM on December 12, 2009 [1 favorite]


boing boing: "It's hard to believe that this jaw-dropping series of videos of Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt isn't a massive YouTube sensation... but it will be."

If view counts are interpreted as enjoyment, please mentally subtract at least 1 off of several of these videos. Thank you.
posted by dgaicun at 2:12 PM on December 12, 2009 [2 favorites]


I'm sure Herzog is indeed plotzing, but I won't be able to watch any more of this.

The Green Gables girls were... somewhat endearingly crazy. The lady with the hat is more jesus-christ-you-crazy-bitch crazy.
posted by cmoj at 2:13 PM on December 12, 2009 [1 favorite]


The Green Gables girls were... somewhat endearingly crazy.

You mean Grey Gardens, but I bet there's a mashup idea in there somewhere.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 2:23 PM on December 12, 2009 [1 favorite]


I don't want to be picky, but if you have three links in your FPP it's not a slyt. That label pretty much only applies when the FPP consist of, well, a single link to YouTube.

Also I'm rather frightened by the content of the links. Let us speak of them no more.
posted by Caduceus at 2:34 PM on December 12, 2009


Er, yeah Green Gardens. Green Gables is something completely different.
posted by cmoj at 2:37 PM on December 12, 2009


jaw-dropping

Dear Boing Boing,

You know, there are adjectives other than "jaw-dropping".

Here are some that you might like, which would certainly suit your pretentious, petulant editorial style:

"achingly beautiful"
"scrotum-tightening"
"soul-searingly precious"
"timelessly twee"
"disney-iffic"
"endlessly enchanting"
"cyberdelic"
"shambolic"
"cockhardingly"

Sincerely,
Me

PS: Fuck off.
posted by Ratio at 2:37 PM on December 12, 2009 [13 favorites]


jakeingly
posted by found missing at 2:38 PM on December 12, 2009 [2 favorites]


or should that be "just jakeingly"

/something for the old school boing boing haters
posted by found missing at 2:40 PM on December 12, 2009 [1 favorite]


Interestingly, if you search for ""jaw-dropping" steampunk site:boingboing.net" you get the exact same results.

same thing for "facile corey doctorow fapfest".
posted by dunkadunc at 2:41 PM on December 12, 2009 [2 favorites]


You mean Grey Gardens
Er, yeah Green Gardens


OK, read those two lines as slowly and carefully as you can.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 2:46 PM on December 12, 2009


single-page LA Weekly link.
posted by mwhybark at 2:52 PM on December 12, 2009


Achingly.
posted by Ratio at 2:55 PM on December 12, 2009


I had this hunch that I had heard these ladies before, but I couldn't remember how to get to the video. But lo and behold, just putting "Royce Reed" into YouTube led me to this incredible video, which I had gleefully sent around to all of my friends a couple years back.

Incidentally, I also sing everything perfectly, note by note, and think that the people around me know nothing, nothing, and I have a hat that is only FRACTIONALLY less fluffy than that.

Oh, shut up, shut up!
posted by Madamina at 3:05 PM on December 12, 2009


Madamina: your link was the same video as the first video that plays in the first link.
posted by delmoi at 3:16 PM on December 12, 2009


Oh, shut up!

So it was. Gah!
posted by Madamina at 3:19 PM on December 12, 2009


Ah, now I know where I first saw Royce Reed. Wayland Flowers introduced her to me.
posted by ericb at 3:22 PM on December 12, 2009


Become a fan.
posted by Obscure Reference at 3:38 PM on December 12, 2009


Royce is a preview of what Arthur Kade will morph into in oh, say, 2050 or thereabouts. (Translation: 480 months into "The Journey.")
posted by Gordion Knott at 4:05 PM on December 12, 2009


Whenever I see stuff like this, I'm struck with a palpable wave of horror at the thought of what it's going to be like when the baby boomers start hitting senility en masse. My only consolation is that I might develop some pre-senile condition myself and thus be blissfully unaware.
posted by philip-random at 4:29 PM on December 12, 2009


Boy I haven't read the L.A. Weekly in a while...

Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt, you see, are emissaries from a more refined time, women who do not end their sentences with prepositions, nor with the declarative question mark that is the California style

...and now I remember why.
posted by drjimmy11 at 4:37 PM on December 12, 2009


The article being ten years old your whiles must be incredibly long. . .
posted by Esoquo at 5:06 PM on December 12, 2009



You mean Grey Gardens
Er, yeah Green Gardens

OK, read those two lines as slowly and carefully as you can.


Jesus. Any color of botanical conservatory will do.
posted by cmoj at 6:59 PM on December 12, 2009


Wow, I thought I knew all the downtown LA characters, but these dolls are news to me. They seem to be regulars at Hank's Bar at 8th & Grand, which has free popcorn, but isn't in my experience all that friendly. Should you go on a Royce & Marilyn hunt, beware what appears to be an open seat at the bar, as it may be invisibly "saved" for some rude guy who is smoking and shooting the breeze outside. You won't see such fabulous females in the King Eddy, but you might make a friend to bunk with in your dotage. And for DIY hats like that, California Millinery Supply!
posted by Scram at 10:43 AM on December 13, 2009


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