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Chief Bullfeathers—3/10/2010 6:57:52 AM

MC Bullfeathers -- are you my grandson?

Chief Bullfeathers—3/10/2010 6:53:16 AM

*Yawn* -- Holy smokes! The world is in color now. What happened?

Last thing I remember, I got shot by Hopalong Cassidy. It was a good day to die.

No-one told me this color thing would come along. How can we be "red indians" now that everything is in color?

"Apropops". Hm. I remember soda pops. I don't remember apropops.

He who is called Apropops of Nothing -- maybe you are not Arapaho. Are you Greek?

MC Bullfeathers—3/10/2010 6:48:42 AM

I be rappin' 'bout an Idaho potato

Chief Bullfeathers—3/10/2010 6:35:22 AM

You summoned me, he who is called Apropos of Nothing?

I am not easily disturbed from my slumber, this better be good, he who summons me yet can not spell Arapaho.

Toady—3/9/2010 9:35:25 AM

Sorry, change 'effect' to 'affect'

That is all.

Apropos of Nothing—3/8/2010 4:52:54 PM

Bullfeathers.

Toady—3/6/2010 5:56:10 AM

Greetings from the land of busy. Life here is busy, busy, busy, but it forces one to 'bee' all one can 'bee.'

Apologies to those with sensitive pun lobes.

Teaching, having a new puppy, fending off new and accumulated ailments in myself and my spouse; these things, they have impinged upon my time and energies.

Thus, I am not around as much.

Has anyone noticed the deplorable state of political reform in the US? Oh my head, it turns out that Obama, unlike Truman (who hailed from a simillarly corrupt political organization), has failed to rise above his political pedigree and effect real, substantive, and lasting change.

In two to four years the GOP will be back in control, and we will continue our hellbent and delusional path towards obsolescence and irrelevance.

It will be a fun ride -- at least fun in an I-told-you-so sort of way. China, India, and the European Union will hold the field as the US collapses inward upon itself in a black hole of debt. I sure hope that I am able to be there to witness the decisive delineation of the event horizon, that will separate the wheat from the chaff, the Cheney-Hapsburgs from the Ralph Everyman and Joe Sixpack.

Vedrun—3/5/2010 5:06:07 AM

I am glad to see you you are taking your medication. Sleep well, Slobodan.

Slobodan—3/5/2010 4:49:58 AM

Yes, Vedrun. It is you. I will email you my instructions. Goodnight.

Vedrun—3/5/2010 4:49:13 AM

Have you appointed a lawyer?

Slobodan—3/5/2010 4:48:13 AM

Vedrun, a class action resolves disputes between the many and the one.

In this case, the YouTubes are the many and we are the one. Trust me. It works every time.

Vedrun—3/5/2010 4:42:44 AM

I can hardly wait for your clear explanation, beloved leader.

Slobodan—3/5/2010 4:40:59 AM

It is a simple thing, Vedrun. I will mount a class action. Many have done this successfully in America and England and everywhere.

Vedrun—3/5/2010 4:37:52 AM

There are many Tubes, Slobbo... perhaps you are the one trying to catch the wind.

Slobodan—3/5/2010 4:36:09 AM

All of them, Veddy.

Vedrun—3/5/2010 4:35:43 AM

You want to take the YouTubes to court?

Slobodan—3/5/2010 4:27:00 AM

Veddy, they don't call me "the boy named SUE" for nothing... hahaha.

I think this is our opportunity for a little Johnny CASH! If you catch my wind...

Vedrun—3/5/2010 4:24:34 AM

We are being ripped off. All over the YouTubes. Everyone is stealing the new video! Even the BoingBoings who live in America and England and everywhere! This is horrible, Slob.

Slobodan—3/5/2010 4:21:52 AM

I never sleep. Why do you wake me?

Vedrun—3/5/2010 4:21:01 AM

Yes.

Slobodan—3/5/2010 4:20:44 AM

Why? Is it important?

Vedrun—3/5/2010 4:20:10 AM

Slobodan... you awake?

Fantø—3/4/2010 10:30:07 AM

Hmm, I don't know. Maybe she just doesn't like dingo lovers. . .

Stanley—3/4/2010 5:34:06 AM

Duh... oh yeah. Just found the address change email from last year. Still, I got no reply for the past five years or so like I said, because I haven't emailed her for the past five years or so. Hey, what's half a decade between friends?

I did leave a few messages up on her website and saw no reply at all, like, minutes later. So I what could I do? Kids today... slackers.

Fantø—3/3/2010 1:54:18 PM

Hey Stanley, her "othitis mail" has been closed for a long time, if that's the address you used. Email me at eso(at)bukowski.net - I'll put you in touch with her.

Stanley—3/3/2010 6:09:14 AM

Fantø -- how'd ya get hold of Miz O? (Sounds like japanese soup)

I sent an e or two but got no reply for the past five years or so.

Fantø—3/2/2010 12:09:25 PM

I thought GONZO was a Muppet.

Raj Bloor—3/1/2010 8:30:04 PM

Check this clip; totally accurate definition of "Gonzo."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Krusty the Clown—3/1/2010 6:45:48 AM

Sounds kinda kinky, kathy; back in pa, huh? I bet that hurt! Mwahahahahaha!

Fantø—2/28/2010 8:47:14 AM

Christine says hello, and wishes all of the Old School Owl Farmers well, especially jj, Stanley, and Luna.

Stanley—2/27/2010 8:56:11 AM

Them Yugoslav Billiard Peoples are building up an impressive body of work. Like Dr Frankenstein.

kathy—2/26/2010 6:53:48 PM

i'm kinda new here, saw this, don't know if you did or not:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/26/a-flat-out-high-spee.html

maybe you;ll like it

i'm back in pa for anyone who knows

Sleepyhead Beatnik—2/26/2010 11:28:58 AM

It's a good thing those YugoBillPeeps disabled the comments section on their godawful YouTube pages.

I was ready to post some vile diatribes, rank with undeleted expletives & shocking metaphors that would have singed the skin off their hairless nutsacks.

The Scum Also Rises, eh?

johnjohn—2/26/2010 6:02:27 AM

Huzzah...that's one creepy video! I had to check to make sure the doors were locked, just in case.

Vedrun—2/26/2010 4:29:50 AM

You've plucked your eyebrows. Who did the plaster work on your hair? I do like the register change at 1:25 very much -- you are as good as a eunuch there.

Only joking, very good job Slobodan. What do I do now, promote this?

Yugoslav Billiards People!!!—2/26/2010 4:26:08 AM

New sophisticate look! New sophisticated sound!

See soon-to-be international hit and all-time standard "Words Fail Me My Love" -- and handsome Slobodan as you've never seen him before!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By4yZQXfvPI

Fantø—2/24/2010 11:38:07 AM

And how many times can I use the word "just" in a post?

Fantø—2/24/2010 11:21:15 AM

Glad you're enjoying the GONZO TAPES, Stanley. What can I say? It's amazing [to me] to hear how some of the Vegas trip went down. Without Oscar, that book wouldn't have been written. Sure, that's a hypothetical statement, but you can hear just how much dialog came from the tapes + his notebooks. The embellishment isn't that far off the mark. It reconfirms once again [in my opinion] just how groundbreaking that book is.

"The Cocaine Papers" notes are interesting to hear Doc's first real ride with the White Devil. Once he got seriously into cocaine his writing went by the way-side. To focus in a cocaine binge [or just constant daily use] is impossible. Concentration is doomed. That is just my opinion from personal experience with it. An understanding, as it were. I don't mean he COULDN'T write anymore. I don't need to explain this...

"GUTSBALL" is another strange one. I think he tried to push that story for a LONG TIME. No one took the bait.

Hope your flu subsides, Stanley. 100 proof vodka will keep mine away today.

Stanley—2/24/2010 5:58:46 AM

"And the Katzenjammer Kids are too." -- typed in haste.

maybe, for clarity --

And the Katzenjammer Kids, Oscar and Hunter, are too.

Or something. I dunno. This ain't the Pulitzer Evaluation Committee Blog is it?.

And I've got the flu.

Stanley—2/24/2010 5:40:46 AM

Fantø -- Gonzo Tapes. Just got 'em, and nibbling at 'em. Thank you for the advice!

First impressions -- yup, it was all true. Pretty much as I'd thought. He was a great editor as well as a great writer.

The Taco stand in FLLV was a revelation. I don't have my copy of FLLV to hand, I keep misplacing it, but the waitress sounds a lot more savvy than in the book, comes from NYC. And mercifully, there's no knife drawn by the attorney. Actually, all the people in that segment are so polite and friendly, trying to help them find the "American Dream". And the Katzenjammer Kids are too. I like how HST says almost nothing at the taco stand, letting Acosta just run with the joke.

They both sound a lot more like two normal guys out having fun than the cartoons in the movie (or, indeed, the book) but I haven't listened to it all yet. I believe the wreckage in the hotel room is real, but I haven't heard it yet.

From what I've heard so far, they might be ripped to the tits but they don't sound like it -- they pass easily amongst civilians. I await to see if there's evidence to the contrary.

I presume the bath-tub/radio/grapefruit/White Rabbit sequence isn't in there.

Great stuff. The biggest revelation to me is Oscar, so far. Not a cartoon but genial and funny with an obvious thread of beautifully camouflaged deeply, deeply evil humour.

Thanks, Fantø, once more. Had no idea it existed and it's been out for over a year.

Slobodan—2/23/2010 7:10:55 AM

Now we wait.

Vedrun—2/23/2010 6:59:47 AM

Now I understand product placement. Nice work, S. Now what?

Slobofreak—2/23/2010 6:53:40 AM

Hello fellow freaks! Here is my contribution to thread below:

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when my attorney turned the car radio to YouTube. Boy what a trip!! Even Hitchhiker was dancing feet against my ears. Was hearing Yugoslav Billiards People, hard to keep still, amazing, awesome rockin car trip music... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMVZCH4J0lQ

It was about noon, and we still had more than a hundred miles to go.

Slobodan—2/23/2010 6:40:57 AM

Shut up Veddy, this is not a coup (even though they have been asleep for 3 days) -- I am EMBEDDING, Veddy.

Vedrun—2/23/2010 6:39:28 AM

Don't do it Slobbo... we have to wait.

Crab Nebula—2/20/2010 12:25:23 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNGt7xEUgS8

Fantø—2/19/2010 11:35:23 PM

Has anyone here listened to the GONZO TAPES?

Listening to Doc driving around Lake Mead with a mic, rambling into it, after Oscar fled -- in the destroyed White Whale is pure genius.

I'll transcribe one tiny section by ear after this joint.
Don't shoot the messenger. I don't get paid for this.

[AT THIS POINT, DR. THOMPSON HAS TO PULL OFF ONTO A SIDE ROAD TO LOSE A COP, HE BELIEVES, IS FOLLOWING HIM.]

"I wonder if that creep's gonna come in here after me. Goddamn his ass! Scum, can't leave a man alone . . . all I wanna do is sit out here . . . drug up . . . get all crazy. Seems like a decent way to behave on an afternoon."

And that's my latest contribution for the thang. TRANSCRIPTIONS. I do like the tone Doc gets when he says "God damn his ass." You can hear the teeth grinding upon the tar-guard, the Cadillac ripping through the sand and up side mountain roads.

As your friend, I advise you to seek out the GONZO TAPES or FILES or whatever.

TURN UP THE NIGHT!

And—2/19/2010 4:57:20 PM

WHAT was supposed to be THAT. (Zen?)
Ahh, this is starting out on
the good foot!

Period—2/19/2010 4:55:27 PM

What was supposed to be a period behind "FRIDAY". What the hell? If my predictions are correct you'll see worse than that in a few hours.

Fantø—2/19/2010 4:53:42 PM

What's happenin', hootch?

Sandy talks about the miscarriages publicly. Hunter has mentioned it in letters, but never in a book or an interview, as far as I'm aware.

In better news, it's Friday, I've plenty of liquor, and otherness legal or not. Phew! Now I can relax.

Cheers to all of you!