Riff Cliche

Mr Bigshot here splashed out $13 on a puck screen that should come today. I'm running out of the <$40 gizmos...

Now you're talking. Although the Gaggimate Pro...

But did we ever find out why he couldn't touch it?

Imagine a TV show like Saturday Night Live but funny.

YouTube video by Grindhouse Movie Trailers Mitchell (1975) - Trailer

Fairly atrocious. Probably only bearable if you watch the Mystery Theater 3000 episode.

Rewatching after seeing the previous Ian Kennedy Martin /Joe Don Baker funfest (MITCHELL, 1975) adds a certain something.

I want to hear their version of "Baggy Trousers."

It's like one of those HP Lovecraft stories where the narrator manages to write down his last words as the eldritch things gets him.

It's like overhearing a rather personal conversation on the bus and slowly realising it isn't very interesting.

They'd put him in jail if he did that today.

"Praise me more, little man, praise me more."

Chocolate -redefined as a colour not a flavour.

Welcome to the Turd Reich.

He's got to empty his Depends somewhere.

Incontinent America-hating Coprophile At It Again.

But where does that leave all Salinger's pre-1948 stories?

I was right, wasn't I?

They get 0.000001¢ for every violation of human decency.

"Owwww, I'm not wearing a jacket, and those aren't lapels, Mr. Herbert!"

Disturbed to find an error in Shadow Ticket.The FBI was not called the FBI until 1935, Tom. Not sure that I can go on...

So 1.33 million readers don't think it's worth paying for. That's what I call a business model.

Turns out everything - animal, vegetable, and mineral - is Antifa.

Rewatching LOST for the first time since it was broadcast and impressed at how well it holds up: it certainly shows how lugubrious "prestige" TV currently is. An episode like "The Shape of Things to Come" from Season 4 has more going on on every level than an entire season of most HBO or FX product.

Today's update;

It's a bit of a dilemma when one thinks creators should be paid for their work but can't bring oneself to pay $10 a month for less than half a dozen Substack posts. I mean, I could get a secondhand copy of Anna Karenina for that.

"I can't be the only one confusing Russ Vought with Brock Vond," as Zoyd Wheeler said to Bob Ferguson.

An imaginary college run by grifters in a liberal city?

YouTube video by The45Prof 1968 Alan Copeland Singers - Mission: Impossible Theme / Norwegian Wood (mono 45)

Possibly the most late-60s-pop-thing ever.

And the funny thing is she names them all "Brett."

I'm so old I remember a decade going by thinking Gravity's Rainbow would be Thomas Pynchon's last novel.