gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP (G.N. Excelsis-Deo) (05/30/86)
Years in the making ("Sure, I'll drop the cassette in the
mail to you over the weekend...."), weeks in the sequencing
("Let's see, do I put Dave Bottom's blues frenzy between Jim
Hofmann's poetry rant that the Japanese court stuff from
Brad, or should I use Binkley's syntho jazz thing? Aaargh.
[sound of darts being thrown at listing tacked to dart
board]"), requiring literally thousands of dollars of pre-
cise and expensive equipment (jump cut to my wife hollering,
"Greg, have you seen that Planter's Cheese Ball can that we
keep the coffee in?" I reply, "Uh....yeah. I needed some
fake drums, so I had it in the recording studio." Riotous
laughter ensues.) and time, IT IS FINALLY COMPLETE. I have
one in my walkperson even as I type this party out.
So welcome to the USENET cassette release party posting. We
didn't have time to do much for munchies and drinks, so I
made all the contributors come BYOB. Oh yeah. Sorry about
the name tags, too. You gotta do it by net address. Anyhow,
here's what we've got. Here's what we've got:
?vax!tjjw: It's Toejam's favorite drink: A flaming blue
malibu with California plates. Don't ask me what's in it.
guidos@brl-lfd.arpa: Bernie's got some kind of urban version
of the clear stuff in the mason jar that pulls the breath
out of your lungs. You can't miss his glass-he's got his
harp soaking in it.
bentley!egw: Schnapps, drunk with a straight back.
pur-ee!hsut: sand and juice with a bat in my airplane
iham1!rwn: It sure is fizzy
esc-bb!brad: sake, natch. In this beautiful white bowl....
tellab1!etan: He keeps asking us what *we're* drinking....
g.cs.cmu.edu!ckk: Dunno. The glass is opaque. He seems
pleased, however.
vaporvax!bornak: It looks like that Jovian slime that all
the yuppies were drinking a while back. They didn't float
methane ice in it, though.
dadla!jrb: Whatever it is, it's (ouch) "Straight, no
chaser"
ihuxx!phedge: VAX magnetic tape head cleaner cut with a
little Hawaiian Punch
nrl-css!wicinski: Dance Lubricant and Bourbon
dec-pldvax!janzen: He's not drinking anything. Does he eat?
hofmann@amsaa.arpa: I think it's either a funny coloured
beer, or some sort of industrial effluvia
pyuxd!rlr: I haven't seen him recently. He was arguing with
Toejam about something. Maybe he knows what's in Toejam's
drink.
potomac!jsl: A tall, cool bottle of Slam 69
stolaf!robertsl: He's finished whatever he brought, borrow-
ing from jsl and Hofmann now.
dec-baxta!bottom_david: One whisky, one gin, and one beer
hao!pete: This stuff from uh...Thailand, maybe? I can't
read the writing on the label
amdcad!linda: A bracing New Beaujolais.
cubsvax!dss: Long Island Iced Tea
rossi@nusc.arpa: Electric Kool-Aid
astroatc!gtaylor: Cointreau on Ice
NOW, HOW DO *YOU* GET IN ON THIS?
Simple. If you're at USENIX and you can find me. I'll have
some tapes along.
Otherwise, sit down and get four dollars. This money will
take care of that luscious little 90 minutes of low-tech
anarchy and history, and the jiffy bag and some postage.
Get the check or the money order or the krugerrands and send
your "pretty please" request to my house (I can't get stuff
here at work). The address is:
Gregory Alan Taylor
907 Jenifer St.
Madison, Wisconsin 53703
As soon as your note arrives, I'll send you one. Simple, eh?
P.S. Soon I'll be posting the official liner notes for the
cassette in nroff/troff form so you can run off your own.
Stay tuned.