{"id":2430,"date":"2021-10-17T13:07:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T18:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:56:09","slug":"lx-commentary-17-love-is-a-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-commentary-17-love-is-a-razor\/","title":{"rendered":"LX Commentary #17: Love Is A Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

“Love is a razor. It’s cold, and it’s sharp. It’s cutting out hearts that glow in the dark. And it’s selling wine…”<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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This chapter is possibly the only “action shot” of the book being written, sent to a friend who asked if I was currently writing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

The core of this chapter is your basic lyrically inspired play by play: C has a glow in the dark razor and challenges Benji to a shaving contest. Absurd shenanigans the eventually turn more serious. Simple, right? No need to suspend any disbelief whatsoever. \ud83d\ude42

Allegedly an alternate version of Benji’s afterword playfully cited this song interpretation as being the least realistic. Something to the effect of “There’s a scene where two characters decide to shave together in the dark. That would never happen in real life, but who am I to police art?”<\/em>

I told Benji that was hilariously awesome. I also pointed out that he gave me a glow in the dark razor. What else was I supposed to do with it? (Upon closer review of the lyrics, now I realize it’s the hearts that glow and not the razor itself. Props for not policing that misinterpretation either.)

Another extreme mondegreen<\/a> I guess…

Other tidbits:<\/p>\r\n

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  • Originally this chapter started with Benji drowning his sorrows in wine on Kitchen Island, but since “The Mummy” needed to work as a standalone television episode the intro\/outro segues bled into the chapters around it.<\/li>\r\n
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    “Taped over the mirror was a poster. The poster showed fourteen photos of a man being shaved with a straight razor.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\nWith the DJ no longer dead due to something being set right that once went wrong, the name of the hardware store changed from Wilicur’s to Didicur’s.<\/li>\r\n
  • Do you know about the Evil Space Queen and the identity of the mummy like Frank does? (We don’t think you’ll figure out what it’s really all about…)<\/li>\r\n
  • “It works for me. I’m glad it hasn’t caught fire.” \u2014 Encore Magazine interview<\/a><\/li>\r\n
  • One of my first video sessions with Benji involved a tale of a shaving mishap\u2014before he knew of a similar reference in the book. I reworded to match his phrasing, but also took it as a sign from the universe I was on the right track.<\/li>\r\n
  • The unnamed ZZ Top song (quietly) playing on the jambox is\u00a0Rough Boy<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n
  • Overemphasizing the “together” part of the shaving contest is a reference to a song by McClintock G’s, a Benji Hughes side project.<\/li>\r\n