Memoirs of an English Major

“Do you not like me with my clown? I can see I make you frown. When on Earth will all this end? I’m your friend, your only friend” - Test Card Girl

Welcome to day two of Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes week. Before I begin the post, I’m going to quickly write about my experience with Project Wonderful for those of you whoa re curious how’s it’s gone. My current impressions is that it’s not a great as it sounds, at least for my site. The bottom line is that when you run a PW ad bar, you’re auctioning off your site and much like any auction, if you have something that no one wants, it won’t sell. I have yet to see a bid that actually pays me. At one point I set the minimum bid to a dismal five cents. I soon learned that you can make a bid for a site for the cost without any funds. I think if you’re running a bigger site, Project Wonderful’s a great way to get some ad revenue, but not for a small blog like mine. It’s a good idea, just has yet to pull its weight much like Entrecard has. I’m going to continue to run it on the sidebar for the reminder of the month, but these are my first impressions. In any case, on with the post.

It’s amazing what sort of idea pop into my head while I’m on the road, driving along with nothing more than the wheel in my hand, music blaring, and the open road. As I was driving, Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie started playing on my Ipod and I began to think more on the series finale and the series as a whole. In Ashes to Ashes, much like Life on Mars, there is a reoccurring element of a violent clown ready to attack the main character Alex Drake. It’s a consent image and one the viewer finds out what it means. It’s not the first time the clown has appeared in the show’s history.

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“I’m everywhere, Bolly. I was needed and I was there” - Gene Hunt

    It’s no secret that I love Life on Mars and it’s spin off Ashes to Ashes. Next to Monty Python, it’s now one of my top UK television programs.  And with the last episode of Ashes to Ashes series one already well in the books, I felt it was about time I wrote about the show in what may be my most intensive writing week ever. From Monday to Thursday, I will write on and about the show in a variety of fashion, not only because I feel the series is deep enough for the task, but also to challenge myself to get back into a research mode of writing, one I haven’t done in quite some time now. This is all leading up to a paper I plan to work on, complete with due date, sources, and all the things that can go into a academic paper, minus the college class tied to it. Tomorrow, I will go into more detail on the challenge itself. For the most part, I will try to stay far from reveling the plot, but it will help to have watched the show. For now, the post.

    I’m a huge fan of Gene Hunt. Honestly, I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the whole hard nose policing he practices, or possible his flare for language. Whatever the reason, he’s one of the few characters that I can’t quite fit into a specific place, even more so after the finale of Ashes to Ashes. Allow me to elaborate

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