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• Commented on Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, one of the all-time great American comedy sf novels, will be a movie
  "That'll be the day-ay-ay when I die." /OK someone had to...
• Commented on EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees' fair use rights
  Agree that camera/pic policy is in Condition F, but for now... if you don't like it, don't go. Attend a regional burn instead. Playa del Fuego, Transformus, InterFuse, Scorched Nuts, Recycled Rainbow... etc. Save hundreds and enjoy (usually) better weather....
• Commented on Michael Jackson to be plastinated?
  Pop---------------> artifact....
• Commented on Coffin sofa
  Makes any room more Munsters-like. Release the bats!...
• Commented on LA cop union buys stake in newspaper, demands critical writers be fired
  The way newspapers are dying off, this union move may be too little image control, too late. Sounds like a lousy investment for the fund....
• Commented on Chicago Alderman vandalizes public art depicting CCTVs
  The overpaint color selected by the authorities is about the same shade of Chewing-Gum Grey used on vinyl siding in the worst looking duplex subdivisions. Welcome to East Berlin....
• Commented on Hospital Food Photo Blog
  "This meal is pureed and put into a mold to look like themselves in an original state." Why? None of it is raw. If they're *expecting* it to get thrown up, then they're using the right ammo. Most US hospitals...
• Commented on Smoking Smarties candy
  Used to snort Pop Rocks for laughs- it was like a bowl of Rice Krispies going off between your ears. This was c.1980, when you would be handed freshly mimeographed school assignments w/ the 'get high' scent. Wonder if there's...
• Commented on Prom dress store changes photo of dress
  Prom Dress sports honkin' Camel Toe! ; )...
• Commented on Meaning of radio station call letters
  From IL, c.1970: WJPF: W)illiamson J)ackson P)erry F)rankin- names of the four counties of target audience. Today this is a Limbaugh AM repeater station. Herrin IL. WEBQ: W)e E)ntertain B)eyond Q)uestion- AM, later FM. Harrisburg IL....
• Commented on Theme song for 1962 World's Fair in Seattle
  What's on the flipside? An instrumental version of the same tune? Lame filler?...
• Commented on Fox's Glenn Beck says Obama is building concentration camps for Republicans
  #30: Source, dowjones.com~ "KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M By Katherine Hunt Last Update: 12:19 PM ET Jan 24, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. said Tuesday it has...
• Commented on Paean to iron-on patches from the 1970s
  Iron-on patches didn't breathe like fabric- they made me sweat directly behind the patch area. Those rubbery, glittery iron-on T-Shirt transfers like the ones Roach sold had the same effect. Yick. "Whatever happened to white dog poo?" This topic merits...
• Commented on Unusual custom guitars
  Deep surf: http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2006/09/ebay-of-day-amazing-60s-mosritevon.html ~40 years old, possibly the coolest customs ever...
• Commented on Paul Harvey (RIP)
  In an insistent tone, he had disinformation on the topic of UFOs: "They are ours." Too bad. /can't get weepy...
• Commented on Wacko Jacko's wunderkammer for sale
  Anyone catch the fact that Jacko is offering autographed/numbered copies of the Julien's 5-catalog box set for $500 each? Seems like a better and more telling morbid curio than some crappy figurine. http://www.juliensauctions.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=58 Quite a bit like the movie "Citizen...
• Commented on Comedian smashes audience member's mobile phone, blames YouTube
  Milton Berle always claimed to use stolen- or more often, stale jokes. He also was the owner of a set of file cabinets containing (his count) a million jokes. Theft is as old as property. There are whole bands out...
• Commented on Paleo-walkman of 1957
  "Being considered a weirdo in 1957 could have been dangerous." ...or Post-1957....
• Commented on Skull Dog
  Okay, I saw a laughing 'Grey'. Responses here will reveal something about the responders~ file under "inkblot". Wonder what the dog sees......
• Commented on Homemade motorcycle ad on Craigslist
  Damn! So that's what happened to my '70 Coupe de Ville. "Uses about a quart of oil for each gas fillup."~ identifier....
• Commented on Home Security's security checkpoint measure "mal-intent" characteristics
  I call 'gimmick', overpriced at any price....
• Commented on Store won't put kid's controversial name on cake
  Hope the kid at least picks up a passable nickname- say "Audie", instead of a more likely "Headlice" or whatever. Public school is gonna be rough, an isolating experience at best~ maybe there's a good, cheap private place nearby that...
• Commented on Paralyzed guitarist outfitted with mechanical glove
  Guitar players will recognize that it's going to take more than just up/down finger movement. Usually. Dorian needs to watch Django clips, now. Wish him well....
• Commented on Obama <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">might</span> ought to get rid of daylight saving time
  Even here in flyover country, America in the 21st Century is a 24-hour society. Waht's gonna happen if we lose DST~ um, wreck sales of the evening newspaper? Anger the milkman? Inconvenience the lamplighter crew? /calling BS on nostalgia trips...
• Commented on Products from the former Soviet Union
  I bought a pack of Kazbeks in the late '80s just for the sheer novelty. The college kid who sold them to me gave a wicked grin and said "they're mostly tobacco." Fired one up anyway~ tasted like mattress stuffing...
• Commented on Self-Portrait of the Artist, Bloodspattered
  Looks badly dated- blood is sooo Sept. 10th....
• Commented on Ads from comic books
  Want a 6-foot Glow-in-the-dark Frankenstein? I sure did, c. 1971. A lying neighbor kid assured me, "Oh, I have one of those- it's at my Grandma's house. It was shipped in a big box." No, it was mailed in a...
• Commented on People over 55 dream in black and white?
  Any Black-and-White lucid dreamers out there? My last B/W dream was of a TV set that *somehow* had the tech to transform 2D images into holograms, and pull up detailed text info about the programming. "Watched" a Velvet Underground show...
• Commented on False Memories of tragic and happy events
  False/ impossible memory stories are commonplace among drunks. One boozer I knew swore w/ misplaced indignation that he'd watched the JFK shooting *on TV* the day it occurred. He claimed it had been "...very depressing. They kept showing it over...
• Commented on Hot Beef Sundae
  Hot barf sundae. /will stick to Lemon Shake-Ups....