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• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  stantoni, the missing line is "And we'll have fun, just you and me / on K... L... Z!" Also, more information about Jay Mack, Niles Lishness and Farley McLooth can be found on the internet. Some of it was surprising...
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  Anonymous @312 - No, no brother. I often wished I did. I have a tape of the Proctor & Bergman show from Ebbets Field. I wish I had a recording of their in-studio banter with the KFML jocks before the...
• Commented on TNH FTW! A final post and a question for you.
  A flying car and a jet pack will be introduced to the waiting world, after which they will suffer a terrible mid-air collision resulting in property damage and many fatalities. Both will be made illegal, except for use by government...
• Commented on What kind of animal is on this rubber ball?
  I know what it is, but unfortunately I do not have space enough in this margin to write down the answer....
• Commented on Al Jaffee's Tall Tales: skinny comics with snappy humor
  Thanks for the reminder! I hadn't kicked myself recently for once having had the 60s paperback collection of this strip and letting it go when I was in a series of moves. I'll get on that right away. Split tiles?...
• Commented on The Essential Groucho
  Since I haven't seen this one yet, I can with a clear conscience state that the best book I've read on the Marxes is Joe Adamson's Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo. (I may have Harpo and Chico backwards, but...
• Commented on Interview with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol
  #6 has done my work for me. I was going to link to the Lichtenstein Project to show just how poorly Lichtenstein copies from his uncredited sources -- any one of whom is a better artist than he will ever...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  Antinous: back! Thanks for the help....
• Commented on Web zen: more meaty zen
  The meaty yum is the message....
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  I'm grateful to Starr Yelland for bringing us Lemonade Joe, though I only found out a short while back how much they cut that print to show it. The real Denver pseudo-celebrity to me was Tom Shannon from KWGN, who...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  That one I don't know. I do remember going to a speech meet down in Denver and Gunnar, the bus driver, obliged the requests of veteran team members by taking us all to Jim's Burger Heaven, which had the largest...
• Commented on The Maverick Family in Texas Asks: "Who You Callin' a Maverick?"
  Small-m mavericks, on the other hand, were stock animals (often calves) found wandering, unbranded, on the range. By tradition, they belong to whoever brands them first. I expect both of our 'maverick' candidates will be found to have a large...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  Rusty, glad to hear somebody else talk about Fred 'n' Fae! And, oh, yes, the musical spoons they used to flog on the show. Not sure about Pepperland, but years after his fame on KIMN, Jay Mack was working a...
• Commented on World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler
  ...the population of the United States (and most likely, the world) has been decimated by an energy shortage, starvation, plagues, terrorism, and global warming. A population drop of 10% would likely be noticed, but would that be dramatic enough?...
• Commented on 1963 novelty song "The Martian Hop," by the Ran-Dells
  This has been a family favorite since 1963, when it was on the radio. The piano store Dad had his studio in also sold records, and we put it on the turntable more than once there. A friend found this...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  #287 - That's a good number for a Denver comment. The main road through Fort Collins was highway 287, and we used to go down to Denver on it before they put I-25 through. If we went north on it,...
• Commented on Creepy fingers in Sports Illustrated photo
  Yeah, they're clearly helping fingers....
• Commented on Pinhole skull-camera
  There is certainly a degree of craft and panache to it, but on balance, I'm against taking the mortal remains of a young person and using it for what is essentially a toy. If it was done with the advance...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  Not all in your head? Oh, man, I'm sorry. I thought this was fiction, and I've just been making things up... But seriously, how close was the place to Olinger's? Paris on the Platte is completely outside my experience, and...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  Mark, sorry I haven't been checking in -- I thought it was dying down and was starting to feel like it was just me. A brand of soda with an elf? I'm thinking maybe Squirt. My mom took the girl...
• Commented on American Legion WWII posters
  Careless workmanship like, oh, crappy poster art and boring dialogue balloons with no real punctuation? That sort of thing? Hm. "You can't fight the Axis if you have V.D." In fact, we encourage anybody with VD to go fuck the...
• Commented on Beautiful toner explosion
  I was working in a department with a copier in the 80s, and discovered the resource that is used toner. There was an old Thermofax machine there, which could roll paper through while it applied heat. I'd sprinkle toner between...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  Oh, I just remembered something I was going to put on here the other night. Dick Lewis. Ol' Dick Lewis. See, in the early 60s, like around 1962, there were local Mickey Mouse Clubs. Denver had one. They showed reruns...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  Stapleton used to seem like a wonderland -- there was a game room full of mechanical simulator games, like a pretend skiing game, a bowling game, and one where you're piloting a little plane through an obstacle course. None of...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  Blue Balaclava, I remember just how nice it was that we turned down the Olympics. Didn't want 'em. They would have made the place miserable. So satisfying to see the expressions: how could you not want this Wonderful Thing we...
• Commented on Titles from Little Nemo in Slumberland
  I got to gaze upon some McCay original pages at a museum in Newark last year. I think I've read that McCay worked directly in ink, and that's what it looked like from where I stood -- no pencil marks,...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  Altadenablog, I wish I was still a Ft. Collins boy. When I left in 1980, I thought it was for a year or two. I don't even get back every year, which is the unkindest cut of all. I should...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  "Beat Generation bookstore out on Colfax" -- I remember Black Ace Books, but I think it was somewhere else. It was run by two old Beats who'd known Kerouac, Kugelman & Bent. I knew about them because my (then-future) wife's...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  A friend of mine owned an electronics shop on Colfax, and lived in back until the day some guys drove down the street shooting into stores. He lost his appetite for it. We used to go visit my uncle, and...