Showing posts with label voodoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voodoo. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Halloween Countdown: October 14 - a curious fetish

In today's installment of Armagideon Time's Halloween Countdown, the esteemed Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana reads a passage from the Dictionary of Popcult Shorthand...

Reductive? Certainly. Culturally insensitive? Probably, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a better resource for drag-and-drop plot devices that won't tax your audience's thinkin' muscles.

Leave the detailed explanations of syncretistic religion, the Loa, and their interdependant relationships to the anthropologists, this is what the audience expects...

...so why let a little thing like accuracy get in the way?