“…Brought to you here on the sub-etha wave band, broadcasting round the galaxy, round the clock. We’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere… and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. “
I’ll let Andy Ihnako do the talking here, he put this into words far better than I could have…
With Carson’s passing, an entire generation of young adults have suddenly become Old. There’s an entire generation behind us that never saw “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” We will try — with embarrassing and dithering enthusiasm — to explain what the show was like and we’ll fail. Completely. No doubt part of that’s due to the fact that our childhoods are so deeply infused with memories of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The first time my parents and I were in the same room laughing at the same thing, we were watching The Tonight Show together. Some years later, our bedtimes were defined by the start or the end of the monologue. That’s some powerful mojo, and those kinds of memories are shared by nearly everybody who was born before 1980.
I’ll always remember the rare privilege of staying up late with my grandfather, watching Johnny step through those awesome curtains, and launching into a monologue I only half-got as a child. What I really loved were the skits… Karnak, Aunt Blabby, Floyd Turbo, and other characters I’ll always dig.
I’d usually fall asleep or get sent to bed before he started interviewing people.
Here’s an mp3 of a classic Carson sketch… Jack Webb (Joe Friday of “Dragnet”) and Carson deadpanning a Dragnet sketch to end all Dragnet sketches.
MC Chris was a blast, this was a bigger venue than the other day, and the house was packed despite the foot of snow outside. It was wild, and everyone was really cool!
I was going to bring a group, but everyone else chickened out because of the snow. I had also planned to meet a couple of online pals at the show, but that didn’t happen either. Still, it was totally worth it.
Chris signed a Sealab DVD for me. I’m pondering sending it to Atlanta and bugging the rest of the crew to scribble on it as well.
In other news, after 20 years on the scene, text zine Phrack is officially closed for business. I’m sorry to see them go as they have been a part of hacker culture for longer than I have, but they haven’t really been fun to read for the past ten years or so. Interesting, educational, but not fun.
Happy post-apocalyptic lyrics + 1950s kitch + The Postal Service + Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess = this. Watch it now!!
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While walking home today, I figured the one thing the world needs is to see more of my scalp than my already faulty genetics dictate.
So, here’s me buzzed down to a #1.
Just got back from the MC Chris show. After meeting Chris and John in person, I can honestly say they couldn’t be any cooler if you fed them an igloo. Same goes for my fellow MC Chris fans. Thanks, everyone!
More details later, now I go to sleep.
Pics will be much later, since I still have enough shots left on my recyclable digital camera from CVS that it’s worth saving until the Saturday show at Arlenes Grocery.
Going to The Continental tonight to catch MC Chris doing a few songs. (He’s not on the scedule, but his set is at 11PM.) Go me!
In my recent eBay victory, the seller’s first name is Vincent.
The toy robot for sale, a model of one from the old Disney scifi masterpiece The Black Hole, is named V.I.N.Cent.
I feel there’s something I should fill in as a magic third fact, something that would reveal the significance of the harmonic convergence that is this transaction… but it slips my mind. Sorry.
Superman, dumped by Lois Lane, moves in with Jimmy Olsen. Great Superfiends/Justice League gags abound.
I gave blood today, and while I was bleeding into a plastic bag for the benefit of five anonymous folks, I got to thinking…
Remember old-fashioned shareware? You don’t see much of it of consequence around these days, but in the days of BBSes and the early Internet it was a tidy business, working smoothly for the mutual benefit of both users and programmers.
The classic model of shareware has mostly vanished in this age of Digital Rights Management, product activation, registration codes longer than your arm, and Paypal links. The basic idea was that if you got hold of a piece of software, you could try the whole thing out for free. If you liked it, you could - on the honor system, mind you, most of the software wasn’t crippled or limited in any way - send the author a few dollars for hir work.
I decided that I’d like to release my fully functional blood as “Share-Blood.” As with the above model, any of you potential accident victims can have full normal access to the unit of my blood that is now in the system. If you get into an accident in the future, you’re in the Long Island area, and you’re compatible with blood type A+, you may benefit from my regular blood donations. In that case, throw me a sawbuck next time you see me, and we’ll call it even.
This will also be on the honor system. I see no reason why this plan shouldn’t make me instantly rich while still enabling me to valiantly claim that I’m saving lives.
Remember, I’m only asking for a small amount of money. Isn’t your life worth it?
If this doesn’t work out as planned, I may have to somehow limit the functionality of the free version of my blood, or implement some sort of banner ads.
THE RESCUE TOASTER IS MINE!!!@#$%^&*
I’m going to adapt this model kit to fit what he looked like in Sealab 2021. Get him a little broom, maybe a necklace made of teeth…
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