Between them is a pool of shared references and allusions fed by writers, but also by readers.
Or is there some inherent formal difficulty in making jokes — which often depend on the stable ground of shared references — through images?
"They speak a common language, with a lot of shared references that come from the fact that they grew up here in Mexico at the same time," he said.
The three-network era of mass media, which helped create a national hearth of shared references and values, is long gone, displaced by a new media landscape that has splintered us into thousands of insular tribes.
Armisen and Brownstein are fascinated by how couples interact — the shared references and gestures that mark intimacy — and since they often play couples on "Portlandia" they have been able to channel their outsiders' observations into characterizations.
Que Viva camp, a powerful social justice camp, and my People of Color camp, where POC came by to enjoy the knowing ways of shared references, winks above smiles, laughter after pulling off the scab of racism, dancing late into the night – until our skin was black as space, filled with stars.
