AND NOW, BURT REYNOLDS NAKED AND RECLINING ON A DEAD BEAR

The 70s: you had to be there.



Easy, ladies.

The punch line is that I found that via this Violet Blue piece on “manthers”.

What is a manther, you ask? The male equivalent of “cougar”, apparently.

I thought you should know that. Because I like to keep it educational here.

Walk like a manther,

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BOBBY VINTON NEVER DID THIS

Or, “Where David Lynch gets his ideas.”

"Twin Peaks - Japanese Georgia Coffee Commercial (Chapter 4. The Rescue)" (Watch on YouTube)

Via BoingBoing, which makes a good point that while the term “Lynchian” is overused, it definitely applies here. In a good way. Especially the gratuitous spooky-eyed go-go dancers.

Too good to be true,

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CRAP NOVEL: I HAS ANOTHER ONE

Remember that NaNoWriMo entry from 2008 I told you about? The mock novelization of the mock screenplay from this mock B-movie?



I just typed THE END on it.

Christ I'm relieved.

And at 413 pages of A4 and just shy of 200,000 words, it’s a doorstop in NaNoWriMo dimensions. It’s certainly longer than I had in mind, and longer than the basic idea warrants. Probably all the gratuitous sex scenes. We’ll see how much of that survives the editing process when I do the second draft.

On the bright side, I’m rather pleased I was able to knock out 200,000 words worth of novel in about 10.5 months – especially when my first NNWM project, Planet Of The Bulls (2005), still isn’t finished. And this is only my second novel manuscript in four years (the first being Becky Horror Picture Show, which remains unpublished for a number of reasons). So I’m not exactly prolific, but neither was Raymond Chandler. So I can live with that.

Okay. On to the editing/revisions stage, after which I may require a volunteer or two (or 20) to actually suffer through the goddamn thing to see if it makes even the slightest bit of sense to anyone but me.

But first, the whores!

I don’t know what to do with myself,

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9.12: NEVER FORGET

Those of you who have tuned in to this space for awhile know that, generally, I don’t do 9/11 posts, usually because I don’t have anything to add that hasn’t already been said by everyone else.

Also, I tend to be more interested in 9/12 – i.e. What Happened Next. In other words, how we reacted to that event.

In some ways, we reacted well. In some ways, we reacted poorly. Some of us still are.

Which brings me to Glenn Beck and today’s 9/12 Project.

Of course, making fun of Beck is easy and time consuming. The 9/12 Project is even sillier. The goal is pretty straightforward and even admirable on paper:



Except that by “unity”, he apparently means “Real Americans uniting against Those Other Non-Americans (i.e. Democrats) who took the country away and handed it to Yr New Favorite Hitler.”

Which is pretty much NOT how I remember 9/12.

Unity!

That said, by 9/13 or so, much of America had regressed into the atavistic hardcore patriotism that made so much of the Bush Posse’s policies possible – the Patriot Act, rounding up Muslims for “questioning”, indefinite detentions without trial, secret prisons, Abu Ghraib, waterboarding, secret wiretapping, pre-emptive wars, to say nothing of other unifying trends like hating the French, burning Dixie Chicks records, denouncing anyone critical of Bush as traitors, especially if they were employed by the New York Times, arresting people wearing anti-war t-shirts ...

So in that sense, the 9/12 Project could be considered true to its source material.

Or am I being divisive here?

Well, never mind. Beck and his people will tell you they have every right under the 1A to gather and protest and speak their minds. And they’re right.

But do not speak to me of unity. The 9/12 Project is not a call for unity of the country. It's an exercise in Fear And Loathing of The Opposition who Must Be Stopped. On 9/12/01, Terrorism was the enemy. Today, it's The Other Party. It's been that way since somewhere just before Clinton won his first term, but since 9/11 we've really lost the plot, and have been living in fear of each other ever since. Today’s 9/12 rallies – as well as the legacy of fear left by the Bush Posse – will illustrate that in no uncertain terms.

So here's my 9/12 message to both sides of the aisle:

Refuse to be terrorized.

That is all.

We have met the enemy and he is us,

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