"René Girard"? Riiiiight.

 This is the ALD link to an article about René Girard. 

I used "whiskyprajer@yahoo.ca" -- consider this your permission, Dear Reader. 

Metal has a problem

Yeah, maybe Science says... 

I can confirm this action. 

Not just at Meshuggah and Lamb of God concerts, but elsewhere -- hugs were the norm. 

Samuel R. Delany

When I was sick I read Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany. I borrowed the Harper Collins Bantam pulp paperback from the local library. That book really put the zap on me. 

This is the Dhalgren wiki; this is a New Yorker profile; and this is an LARB interview with Sam "Chip" Delany. 

RIP Suzanne Somers

I never really "got" Three's A Company. but Suzanne Somers sure had John Ritter beat to pieces. 

As MAD Magazine says: 

"PLAY with yourself BOY."

My blog "rules"

Blame Joel. 

I used to blog because I couldn't find it on the Internet. I obviously don't post that way anymore. 

These days I use Blogspot to keep track of what I stream (mostly on Netflix). 

"What fun!"

1967 AutoWorld Catalog

Following Thanksgiving dinner, in the pantry of my Grandparents' house I found an old AutoWorld Catalog. I perused the pulp pages of that thing like they were sacred literature. 

I also spent a lot of time with this comicbook (our father eventually hid it -- or at least he tried to):

Sunrise Semester on SCTV

While I'm on an SCTV kick, this is Andrea Martin as Dr. Cheryl Kinsey: 

My mother would watch this and laugh. So you know why I turned out the way I did, Dear Reader.