ha! i hate to say it, but no, it wasn't a joke. Shit, I guess it's true, if you remember who wrote what from that "genre," defined broadly, you weren't really there. i just spaced. yeah, kesey, merry prankster. I had a furthur bumper sticker on the front of my toyota tercel for a couple of years, and a sock in the…

Cuckoo's nest struck me as his finest. My brother and father vote for Sometimes a great notion, but it left me unmoved.

thanks, good to hear. looks like i have some soulstealing in my future. it rejuvinates!

Moorcock, wow, I grew up on his fantasy stuff. The Elric series was absolute pleasure. Damn I loved it at the time. I wonder how it would hold up now, after lo these many years? Camaxtli doesn't make it sound too promising.

Kindle users
Anyone noticed the price fluctuations on kindle ebooks recently? A few days ago I was going to buy some pulpy contemp crime fiction (Robert Crais, cuz I love LA), and found that some of the ebooks cost more than the paperbacks. I checked again today and they seem to be back to the 9.99 pricing structure…

Username story… My friend's deaf mom took her dog to the vet. At the receptionist's desk, she handed over a note card with the message, "Sugar eats poops," written on it. The story still makes me chuckle.

Move
Diddy to the right, Curling to the left

HGF has the "story" as an additional plotline, along with the romantic tension and sparring. Ralph Belamy's in it too, I believe. Rosiland Russel is fantastic in it. But mainly Grant is able to play a character that can be strong and aggressive while at the same time fallible. In BUB, he's just a bumbling stooge.…

When it comes to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Zeppelin IV. And get to a baseball dugout.

Now that's the best tasting baby I've ever heard

It better have wings

Excellent
But fiction, right? With all the lore around Clifton it's hard to know. The interview really picked up after the prostitutes part. Great interview

Cancellation
I thought it was canceled after airing a scene in which MM, while flying over a burning field, slows down, flips over onto his back, puts his hands behind his head, and mellows like he's stoned? Am I misremembering, or was there more than one scene in which MM inhaled and liked it?

Yes Maybe, I'm smuggling the Vacation bit into my Christopher Guest authored memories. Thank you. Riddle solved. Hurting abating.

Reference question
I like this guy's schtick.

Bored? Why, you could martinize your shorts

Thanks for the tips, Unreg. It has seemed like there's a secret handshake I could never figure out.

the Rusty Nail.

Procuring the stuff was always been a mystery to me. I've moved around a lot. Do you ask people? Do you wait for a new friend to mention it? And there's etiquette to consider. I know it's supposed to be everywhere, but it seems like the best kept secret.

Sakitinis, and friends
I'll just go ahead and drop this load back here, where it won't be seen. Drinking's been an important of my life for as long as I can remember. It's a weird relationship, often volatile, but too dear to leave behind.