Special K: Japanese gentlemen, stand up please! https://youtu.be/wijrWMd9wvQ
b1-66er: Jesus.
I wish I'd had one final good thought before my mind went away.
K: Same.
30.7.21
The school of Soft Knocks
Special K: "Japanese pole vaulter disqualified from Rio after his penis knocks bar off"
29.7.21
Reese's Puffsnstuff
b1-66er: We've now moved to the next level...
***
Special K: From
Don't play with your food
to
Play your food.
b1-67er: Great idea.
***
Cap'n Happy: It's like a SNL sketch, without the laughs
66: Great line.
27.7.21
Double exposure
b1-66er:
There was a man. He lived in an apartment. And put a wall down the middle.
On one side he had furniture, clothes and books.
On the other side he had different clothes. Different furniture.
And a TV set...
He'd live on one side, until he got tired of it...
He'd put his book down. Take his clothes off.
And walk over to the other side...
And he'd live there until he got tired of it...
And he'd flip flop...
And he did this back and forth until he died...
After he died, they went in to clean up the apartment so they could rent it out to college students...
These people went back to the closet in the very back of the apartment. And the whole closet was filled with these books...
... And each book was exactly the same...
... And this man had written all these books and had them all published...
... He never sold one, or gave one away...
... The name of the book was
Life and How to Live It
Special K: Thoughtful book story. Where is it from? Did you write it?
b1: No.
Did you ever see REM in their early days?
Stipe had this ability to just go off and tell these long stories in concert.
I saw them enough times that I heard some stories multiple times...
K: Cool. I didn't see them until they were already huge.
b1: On one of the anniversary releases of Document, that story is the intro to a live version of Life and How to Live it.
I thought the story was not only fascinating and compelling; but also provided a spectacular Polaroid of what it was like to be in an REM audience...
They were a strange band because they came from a place no one (yet) cared about...
... And at their very deepest core were all record store weevils...
... The result was they liked what I liked.
They'd play requests.
They'd play without a set list and argue about what to play next.
They'd pimp other bands touring the music that they liked, or where they were from.
Document is the album where it all changed and they started getting played on more than just lowly college radio.
26.7.21
Tethered
b1-66er: "Issa Rae Secures Husband"
Special K: Was he floating away?
b1: I assume so. I didn't read the article.
24.7.21
EVERY day is STFUF!
Special K:
b1-66er: Crass, but correct.
b1-67er: That is really funny. The delivery and chain smoking is funny. It's the "there are no deaf and dumb people in prison" advice.
D4rw1n: That is utterly freaking fantastic legal advice
I, literally, charge $1100/hr to say that in different words
Quite honestly, their advice is better than mine. Because it's way easier to remember
Causes me to think about quitting my job
23.7.21
Medals for Everyone
Special K: I'm watching The Olympics on DirecTV. There's an Olympics app, which wasn't there yesterday but is there today. Every time I use it -every few hours- it has new features. I think they're frantically working and updating it.
b1-66er: That's a job you don't want to have.
K: No no no.
b1: See anything interesting?
K: US Women's Soccer lost their opener. Very big upset.
b1: Yeah.
And worse, Sweden beat them last time.
And they were beaten handily.
Is it The Olympics No One Cares About?
K: Yes.
Very astute.
b1: That's funny.
K: I think so, at least now.
Time waits for no one.
But I can record it.
Their next game is v. the lowest ranked team in the group. That should be interesting.
b1: They're gonna have to make another set of medals with an asterix* on them.
*The Olys no one cared about
K: I think the competition will be legit.
Just lots of other stuff is strange. No fans. Nobody to give you your medal.
b1: Do you have to go collect it from a bin?
K: Yes, with tongs and a hairnet.
I haven't seen it yet. I think they said it's on a tray.
b1: A TV tray.
With a cup of Nissin.
Has the US managed to do anything remarkably stupid in the Oly Village yet?
K: Nothing has been reported.
Blow needed first.
b1: Give the Yanquis time. It's like track, they need a chance to stretch and warm-up before the long jump into social ineptitude.
K: But the hosts fired a lead guy because he did an anti-semitic comedy skit some years ago.
b1: I saw that.
K: Maybe he ate bad ice cream.
b1: What flavor Nissin WOULD a gold medalist* be assigned?
<Instantaneous response follows>
K: Potato leek for gold.
Iceberg lettuce for silver.
Banana cinnamon for bronze.
Gold flavor is champion.
Silver flavor is punishment.
Bronze flavor is sympathy.
b1: Are those real flavors?
K: Not AFAIK. I just thought of them.
b1: I love how quickly you just came up with those.
K: I'm a little tired. That probably helps.
b1: Always.
That was the subterranean power of 24HO.
K: Yes, and The Great Discovery.
b1: Which was what, exactly?
(you can say, it's already been discovered.)
K: Tired means creativity.
I guess it's like a drug.
It screws up perspective.
Also lowers my inhibitions.
b1: Oh THAT.
I thought it was brain damage¹.
K: That might also work.
¹the hidden beauty of MS.
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