More Feetlebaum than you needed/wanted to know

[David Casseres]

Well, shit.

That Hugh Schulze seems to *own an actual copy* of that 
Beetlebomb/Feetlebaum thing.  What kind of fair play is that?  Where's 
the fun in having a pointless argument when one player can just deal in 
actual facts any time he wants to?  This looks to me like a case of that 
*deconstructionism*, that *postmodern* shit where those academics all 
talk about the "text" and all.

And here I was all set to have nice juicy flame war with someone I've 
never even met or even argued with before.

But at least I can add to the confusion just a bit, and at least I can 
deny that Schulze the satisfaction of being the first to tell me it was 
really Spike Jones all along, because the first to tell me was an old 
friend who owns a copy himself.  Well, a copy of a copy -- a CD that has 
BOTH VERSIONS of the Sport Spectacular.  The first, the famous one, is 
the horse race with the "William Tell Overture" for music.  But the 
second one, also Spike Jones but not Doodles Weaver, is a car race with 
Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours."  And according to my friend, it's 
Beetlebomb in BOTH versions, so there, Schulze.

And if there's a second version that made it onto that CD, well how many 
other versions are there that didn't, eh, Schulze?  Eh?  The truth is not 
so simple, is it, when there's more than one text.  Pomo scum wouldn't 
understand that, but Borges would.  Remember, *his* library contains *all 
possible variations* on that Sport Spectacular, Beetle Feetle Bootle 
Footle you name it.  Think about *that,* Mr. Smartypants Hugh Schulze.

Sneers,
David Casseres


Cheers,
David