#dingdongyouarewrong

this is a classic. the tallahassee song that was never on tallahassee and wasnt written by the mountain goats (a category it shares with quick! by the magnetic fields). it's so darkly funny, TMBG have really mastered the art of these jaunty good-time tunes that create a wonderful tragic dissonance with the subject matter.

will also take this opportunity to plug the cover of this song by the wrens because one of my gfs is always raving about it and her music taste is good and she's right.

rating: 9/10 favourite lyric: 'and there's a restaurant we should check out where the other nightmare people like to go / i mean nice people—baby, wait, i didn't mean to say nightmare'

YEAH i have so many thoughts about it...i particularly like how they discuss columbo's lack of a raincoat during the scene symbolizing his vulnerability. i think it'd be super interesting to analyze how the raincoat actually functions as a symbolic device over the course of the whole series.

i would say it generally represents columbo's external persona. not just the usual columbo persona we think of, how he tricks the killers into underestimating him and all that. for this scene particularly, the raincoat would represent how he presents as "straight" to everyone around him; and now that he lacks it, how the truth about him being gay has been found out.

we learn right alongside columbo during the bugging scene that the killer had this massive power leverage over him and an intrusion into his personal life that we hadn't really seen up till that point in the show?? before this, columbo rarely talks about his personal life. if the killers knew anything about columbo and "mrs" columbo, it's only what he'd told them himself. his straight public persona was perfectly secure. however, when the bugging scene flips that dynamic totally on its head.

anyone in columbo's position would probably be terrified. if the killer had outed him, his life could've completely been ruined. he's risking more than he ever has before to continue pursuing this case, now that the killer knows the truth. and what's missing while this is all happening? of course, it's the raincoat. his symbolic armor, his way of presenting himself to the world, has been taken away suddenly and unexpectedly. neither the viewer nor columbo know what this is going to mean for him, or what will happen next. it builds so much tension so quickly and effectively!! that's honestly why the scene is so great imo, even if the episode as a whole isn't one of my favorites.

me : FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT!

In honor of What Pumpkin attempting to fraudulently sue Sarah Z, I decided to sprite her! She comes in both regular and Sharpie Bath flavor.

You don't need to, but if this is about me I would appreciate a cheerleading squad! /lh, I am not a violent person and could easily be shoved in a locker.

Like, if you know you are followed by a bunch of vocal antis, please don't screenshot my post about computer science and disagree with me publically. If any one of those antis found out I run a proship blog, they'd be on my ass in an instant, and not in a cool sexy way.

If you didn't know I was proship, thats also a problem. You should do research on the people you RB from, and I post in the proship tag all the time!

Either way, a huge dick move that could have resulted in me being told to kill myself or maybe doxxed if I didn't take decisive action of getting a fake identity.