jaw@ames.UUCP (James A. Woods) (07/17/85)
# "Ha, ha. Grotesque!" -- last line of Georg Buchner's Woyzeck
# "A little paranoia makes a good propeller" -- Capt. Beefheart
Pick up a copy of the red desk edition of the American Heritage dictionary
and look at the pictures next to the words "contortionist" and "taxidermy"
(not the ones in the bowdlerized blue second college printing). Now, go see
a John Waters film.
When you come home, put Roger Ruskin Spear's "Unusual" on the turntable
and listen to "When Yuba plays the Rumba on a Tuba down in Cuba" as well his
multitracked euphonium remakes of standards by Guy Lombardo and The Who. Then
crank up the Balinese Monkey Chant during football highlights on the VCR.
In the corporate library at work, scarf an eye on the last page of any
random issue of New Scientist to focus on the last few paragraphs by
"Daedalus". Yeah, the guy who's into self-renewing paint, the "hallucilid"
visual display, sculpture via ultrasound, perpetual motion machine designs
which fool physics profs, and aging pills to save on death row costs.
The cat is bent.
Finally, be acutely aware that, though you can't quite see it on p. 69
of the September 17, 1984 issue of Fortune Magazine, there's a plastic pinwheel
propeller perched atop a pencil sticking out of air grill a few feet in
front of Ritchie and Thompson's notorious Murray Hill office refrigerator.
The thing has been spinning nonstop for more than a year.
-- James Alien (ames!jaw, or jaw@amelia)honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman) (07/20/85)
strictly speaking, that's not true. i took my son up to the gucci lab about 4 months ago whereupon he smashed the pencil and ate the propellor. peter
jpl@allegra.UUCP (John P. Linderman) (07/20/85)
> strictly speaking, that's not true. i took my son up to the gucci lab > about 4 months ago whereupon he smashed the pencil and ate the propellor. > peter Better the propeller than anything out of the refrigerator. The last time that thing was cleaned was when the frog pond on the roof started leaking and everything on the fifth floor got a good rinse. I hear that Genetech is bidding for rights to the refrigerator's contents, but Ken is stalling because whatever it is inside the fridge has learned to play a respectable game of chess. jpl