First, Meg and I are homeless until Friday. Will coach debate for food.
Second, I was checking out Diablo Cody’s blog, and she had a nice write-up from Ebert. This sent me down a Wiki Hole that lead me to the “Juno” entry. This made me laugh:
The main character's surname, "MacGuff" is derived from what Alfred Hitchcock referred to as a "MacGuffin": an object ostensibly central to the plot of a film which in fact merely sets in motion its narrative events by attracting the desire of the characters. Slavoj Žižek further likened the MacGuffin to Jacques Lacan's petit objet a, which, in accordance with the latter's formula of desire as a subjective lack was the object which participants in the theatre [sic] of desire sought. Thus, the foetus of Juno MacGuff is merely a contested element which is embedded, quite literally, within the narrative in order to facilitate its development. Furthermore, the fact that the title makes reference to the mechanics and historicity of contemporary narrative techniques provides a prime example of postmodern self-referentiality.
Another thing that has been weirding me out lately:
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