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"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frighten me." - Pascal

Quote from: albrecht on August 07, 2020, 03:49:43 PM
His disappearance could be a good C2C type show if they still had a decent host. Syrette could do a decent job, Knapp also since Knapp likes deserts. It would depend on the author/guest- hopefully a somewhat legit one but with an open mind for conspiracy and such.

+1

I like to think he survived any embedding within the war and continued traveling south until he found himself at the foot of a Mayan pyramid.

Upon his ascension to its peak, an interstellar craft swings by and plucks him off the planet.

He regularly drinks coffee with Enoch, comparing notes about time dilation and indigestion.

John Norman (pen name)
June 3 1931
Age 89

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on August 07, 2020, 06:27:02 PM

It's so much more worse than anyone supposes.

John Titor footlocker system is a go.

(powering up)

Quote from: Jackstar on August 07, 2020, 05:51:40 PMLet me guess, another girl you have a crush on?"

Let's just say, if I could time travel, it wouldn't be to visit Jesus, as Noory so often claims would be on his list of stops.

My first stop would be at June Bug station.

My second stop would be to intercept that cunting Mark David Chapman.

June Lockhart
June 25 1925
Age 95

Quite the looker. Cybil Shepherd minus the psycho glimmer.

 06) THE LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCE (1922) edited by Bertha Clark Pope

The idea of relocating to Iceland.

How to die from alcohol poisoning:

Drink 1/2 shot of your preferred whiskey, rum, scotch, tequila, etc every time Noory says one of the following:

1) Ah ha!

2) Izznit?

3) Duzznit?

4) Wuzznit?


You will be an alcohol soaked corpse by dawn.

Congrats. Thank you for playing. 

Random add

For the non Trekkie in the farflung future stumbling upon this thread and puzzled by IO attaching the Spock pic while we're talking typewriters:

“After a time, you may find that ‘having’ is not so pleasing a thing after all as ‘wanting.’ It is not logical, but it is often true.”  - Spock

I just realized what one of remaining gates is: owning a Selectric II from a specific individual. Say, if you obtained Leonard Nimoy's old Selectric that was the same shade of blue as his first officer shirt.

Huge.

Quote from: pate on August 04, 2020, 11:28:13 PM

Hey, Cam do you remember "The Dixie Chicks?"

I do remember those Chicks. Upon first exposure years ago I recall thinking "Hey, Bananarama regrouped."
 
I believe you're right, pate. Not quite an earworm, but is catchey/hip-notic.

As far as dropping Dixie, I wonder if they went far enough?

I can't advise the left or right (I refer to politics, not the helix'd paths twining up Mercury's key.)

BUT, if shooting for a revolution or statement, shouldn't the lesson of Cassius Clay be their b(e)acon?

A whole new name/experience.

It is a toughie, but I am partial to renaming the collective to The Kitchen Alligator Bitches; but that might echo too Cajun.

Speaking of chicks, I always had a weakness for this Lita Chick in this necessarily dated video.

As a slide effect, when I see that nymphonimbus hair, I am instantly transported to any given episode of Wings featuring Crystal Bernard.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=foGkU6x3eSE

A long time ago, I used to listen to a band called Morphine. If I recall correctly, the vocalist died on stage.

This new material by Robert Plant brought back memories of the Morphine vibe.


https://youtu.be/pcvtKPatRNQ 

Quote from: ItsOver on August 04, 2020, 05:24:06 PM
I wonder if having a blessed Selectric is as rewarding as seeking the next media sighting.

According to John Dee's angels, there are four gates into Eden. (Or maybe not.)

I would say owning a Selectric and spotting one in the media are two of the gates.

The other two gates?

Unknown.

I'm going to need more angel/demon fuel.

 

Quote from: Jackstar on August 04, 2020, 05:12:08 PM
polite bellylaughter

Since I routinely create local EMPs when using Roman candles and a pack of Black Cats, the jury is out for now.

If the second explosion was a tactical nuke then more is coming.

Quote from: ItsOver on August 04, 2020, 02:51:08 PM
Thank you, Cam, for continuing to pursue this noble cause.  It's one I can personally identify with and I anxiously look forward to future sightings.  March on, brave soldier!

I appreciate your support, IO.

To quote Dickens:

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."

And it beats the hell out of playing "Where's Waldo?"

I might have my gravestone commissioned in the form of a Selectric II.

Twice lifesize.

Each bronze key of the keyboard would feature a skull and crossed bones instead of a letter or character. Cleverly placed heavy springs under each depressible key would allow a mimicry of "typing action."

(That is to say, "evocation.")

College kids visiting my grave in the middle of the night, testing the keys:

"The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown bat god."

All the keys strike home.

And they've unwittingly released something.

The fools!

Hahahaha hahahaha
Hahahaha hahahaha

Camazotz Automat owns this fraternity initiate! Transmigration complete!

(coughs)

Sorry.

But, yeah!

The IBM Selectric II will never die!

JOKER (2019)

An IBM Selectric II appears in the counselor's office.

Now we will find out if that COCOON story was legit or mere Hollywood poppycock.

I'm taking him to the swimming pool where the oyster pods are.

Quote from: ItsOver on August 01, 2020, 01:55:50 PM
Cam, you're latest avatar is giving me a hankering for a Quiznos Classic Italian.  Toasted is tasty.

Heh heh. That's the Arby's half pound French Dip & Swiss :

Roast beef. Swiss. Italian roll. French au jus sauce.

For fast food, it is stunningly decadent.

Quote from: AZZERAE on August 01, 2020, 10:51:17 AM
I'm elated to see that Jackstar has returned to his original form.

I wasn't going for that rabbit-hat stuff.

+1

And absolutely no disrespect intended toward the cast, crew, writers, et al who worked on THE NIGHT OF THE LEPUS.

You're all shining stars, too - just the furry kind of stars that are made into coats.

Not the Crowley  A∴ A∴ kind.

05) KINFLICKS (1976) by Lisa Alther

THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN (2018)

The Selectric II in this movie was a green baby.

Quote from: pate on July 20, 2020, 01:24:53 AM
Thanks, I would really appreciate the intel.  I know he has it in him to write something I might enjoy.  His early shorts, The Stand, IT, a few of his Bachmann essays...  the rest seemed so, forgettable.

Airport Convenience Store Author is great work if you can get it, enjoy it and can meet the dead-lines I guess.  Maybe the filthy lucre is worth it?  Were I an actual writer, would I rather stand on 1.5bn copies of one singular work or 1.5mil copies of a thousand clones?

I think Plato and Socrates still rhetorically question each other about this very issue to this very day...

Mr. King I truly hope this is the one!

Thanks Cam!

pate/K_Dubb 2020
"We are going to fix this shit"

UPDATE for pate:

It is my unfortunate duty to relate that the phrase "we can kill it" does NOT appear in the title track story of  IF IT BLEEDS (the book.)

King's target was "If it bleeds, it leads."

However, the story did pass the dill pickle test.

At the story's end, I experienced an electric current down the spine, as if I had bitten into a stolen large dill pickle from the big pickle jar at Cabell's Dairy Way in Oak Cliff, TX in 1969.

It was the humanity, not the horror, that got me in the end. Not an easy thing to pull off.

Well played, Mr. King. Bitch-slapped my black heart after some  misdirection.

The biggest possible drawback to the third story is that it is related to the Bill Hodges trilogy and to The Outsider. 

Since I had read those four books, the connecting points in IF IT BLEEDS (the story) were not a problem and provided back story texture.

But it might be slightly  confusing or frustrating at times if you haven't read those other books.

Why a publisher would put this particular story in a collection is puzzling. It could have been released as a novella on its own and clearly marketed as being part of the Bill Hodges cycle.

Maybe the publisher thinks it wil induce the reader to seek out those other books. Or the publisher is certain the readers of IF IT BLEEDS (the story) will have read the relative books.

Seems like a gamble.

The other three stand alone novellas in this collection were solid IMO. I can recommend these without caveat:

MR. HARRIGAN'S PHONE

THE LIFE OF CHUCK

RAT

Peace & long-toothed crocodiles, buddy.

Cam

At this point, we could probably bring a class action lawsuit against Noory for being one  negligent son-of-a-bitch.

Negligent and lackadaisical bastard.

George Noory, ace reporter! He will hold those goddamned initials accountable!

This mission obsession is in his blood.

Q.E.D.

(BTW, George Noory's aunt Shafica Karagulla was a member of the Bene Gesserit. I'm just sayin'.

Dune. Full tilt.)

Quote from: pate on July 31, 2020, 06:49:27 AM
Wierd All should do a parody of "Riders on the Storm."

"Riders of the Worm" get full on Dune about it!

Genius.

I would immediately legally purchase such a song.

Maybe a companion song, again going full tilt Dune, with THE WHO's "Melanged Blue Eyes."


"Weird Al IS the Kwisatz Haderach Yankovic!"

Quote from: Juan on July 30, 2020, 07:43:57 AM
Who made the rule that “Riders On The Storm” has to be played every show?

To stir things up, it might be cool to have all the bumpers on one night be only Weird Al parody songs.

I could see Knapp doing it, and citing interesting UFO trivia just before going into ANOTHER ONE RIDES THE BUS.

But I'm a Weird All fan. He is a good goto to get away from Riders On The Storm.

John Saxon July 25 2020



Sorry to see you taking the bus, John.