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    http://videosift.com/video/FEAR-Saturday-Night-Live-1981-Historic-Performance

     

    ...starts out looking like the 12 dupe of a stretched tape, but improves...the DC punks remained pretty confused/amused as to why they were invited (someone thought they'd be easier to control than local punks?), but of course most of the press the next day was apparently fictional accounts of DC punks trashing the studio. (Those were the halcyon days in punk of goofballs talking tough about Their Scene vs. Yours, but then again there were folks about, like [Ms.] Lefty in DC, fondly remembered by some for being willing let anyone who bothered her in some way know of her displeasure, whomever they might be.)

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    That last e-letter was indeed a moment...as someone who has had a few odd responses to my short stories, though so far nothing quite in that vein, I can sympathize.

     

    On a much more earthy? salty? level, male dolphins rather famously use their members to manipulate things in their environment, including at times people who wanted to Swim with Dolphins. Tends to make things memorable for such people...the dolphins, after all, have only so many tools, so to write, at their disposal...

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    "Also, I'm pretty sure there is no pushing involved in the Iditarod. Maybe I'm wrong, but the person on the back isn't pushing are they? I think they just ride on there and the dogs do all the work."

     

    There are occasions where the human passenger/driver/musher has to get off and push while the dogs are pulling.

     

    And, as I recall, "Bocephus" was a ventriloquist's dummy that HW, Sr. thought the infant Jr. resembled. He could've been nicknamed "Mortimer Snerd"...I suspect either wooden figure might've recorded better music...(apparently that talent skips a gen in the Williams family).

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    And anarchists...who don't, as a rule, want to Tear Everything Down, so much as want to rid society of hierarchies. Governments too often being precisely Not about people taking care of each other, except in the most sinister sense of that phrase. The anarchists in Catalonia/Barcelona in Spain during the Civil War were able to withstand attacks from without (from the Carlists, Fascists, and lent-out Nazi bombers) and within (from the Communists) for about three years, not by tearing everything down, but because they were so much part of the society that they were propping up. (The Stalinists were so nasty that even the Troskyists such as George Orwell threw in with the anarchists...not a typical result.) This might not have much relevance to a guy with a bandana over his face throwing a rock at a fast-food restaurant or an international bank, but he might have hope to eventually fight such a Good Fight...or just want to [copulate][excrement] up. You usually have to chat with them. Might or might not be worth it.

     

    And had I not had one of my own hot buttons hit the other week (on a really bad day for me), I wouldn't've had the invitation extended, or at least I wouldn't've have complained and had that invitation extended as a result (and had I thought I could add anything to a coversation about what's more cruel/supercilious than funny that Besser and company hadn't presumably had to think about themselves over the years, I would've accepted).

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    FWIW, Polynesians are Caucasian, as much as this means anything (the darkest-complected Sri Lankans are Caucasians, too). Hence the pale loonies always resorting to "Aryan" and such for their determination of Master Races.

     

    Rotten Tomatoes takes into account the assessments of That Guy in the bar whose WordPress blog is all about who Really Should be Caucasian, but also reviews films. Why people give it any credence, dunno...but, then, I'm clearly out of step...even if a friendly acquaintance of mine wasn't the survivor of what the court defined as a sexual assault misdemeanor peformed by Anthony Kiedis (and his lawyers hadn't wasted my time at work one day interviewing me to see if they wanted me testifying), I've always found the RHCP a buncha whiny bores. No Operation Ivy, etc., they.

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    Jangly: The Searchers and the Byrds were the first great self-conscious exponents of jangle in rock, I'd suggest.

     

    The word for that kind of Animal Collective music that comes to mind is "ethereal"...kinda taps out around Clannad.

     

    Echoing everyone else's concern--get chedked out, sir. Hypoglycemia can be pretty damned serious.

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    OK, after the fact apologies, too...I'd say I overreacted to some of the lines (such as He's homeless because he's boring) before giving up before getting to "My craziest day? I was warm for the other day for a half-hour," which is certainly not adding insult to injury. It just hit me sideways. And LA is right about this...this is, in total, an excellent episode, among the many excellent episodes, and thanks for doing them. (And thanks for the offer.)

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    In re: Y THE LAST, Kulap you (and Dustin, and perhaps even Howard) might particularly enjoy a long short story by Alfred Bester called "5,271,009" which also deals, in part, with the fantasy of being the only fertile male human on Earth, in part...Howard might approve of the variant title the novelet has, "The Starcomber"...the story might well've helped trigger the Y creator's thinking. (It's also a very trenchant and funny story about a man-boy learning to face maturity...). Bester is probably best known for his novels, such as THE DEMOLISHED MAN, but early in his professional writing career, in the 1940s, was writing scripts for DC Comics as well, and has a few amusing anecdotes about that in his memoirs. http://www.collectorshowcase.fr/IMAGES2/FSF_5403.jpg is the cover image of the 1954 magazine issue which gave the story its original title...it's been reprinted widely since and is pretty easy to find...

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    Steampunk is indeed Murrican in origin...hell, even before the fiction (is books), there was THE WILD WILD WEST...and then folks such as Howard Waldrop started writing stories about the television industry in the 1850s...and then the really bored Etsy guys started, in Maria Bamford's words, to take a typewriter and make a heavier typewriter...

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    In re: the Web Bonus discussion:

     

    There is the old bumper sticker:

    "Vegetarians taste better."

     

    I've been fortunate enough to be told that this is actually at least arguably the case.

     

    (And there is at least one Vietnamese dish that tastes almost exactly in the other direction, if you get my obtuse drift. I shall have to seek that out again.)

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