grgr (34): pinball wizzard?!

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy 

Wow, a "bitch-slap!" I'm too busy with Betty Boop just now to worry.
And as for you, m,
"When you're slapped you'll take it and like it."
(Bogart as Sam Spade in Da Maltese Falcon by D.Hammett via J.Huston)

Mark
Boop oop a Doop -- whee!

--- Can't Wait <yayforgod at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy Mark--
> 
> Talk about a bitch-slap!  Oh well, we all make mistakes, especially
> epistemological mistakes....Do you think you may have made it worse
> by writing again later and pointing out you bitch-slapped him?
> 
> m
> 
> --- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Howdy
> > 
> > This is an old movie convention.  If an audience was to be invited
> > to
> > sing along with the character on screen the lyric would be
> > subtitled
> > and a little dot (the "bouncing ball") would hop from syllable to
> > syllable in time with the music.  I remember it was used in old Max
> > Fleischer cartoons dating from the 1930's, when sound in film was
> > still
> > a novelty and movie palaces still competed with live burlesque and
> > vaudeville.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > P.S. Check out all the lewd old Betty Boop cartoons you can put
> > your
> > sweaty hands on!!
> > 
> > --- Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >                       "follow the bouncing ball:" (760)
> > > 
> > > does this, also refering back to 583, somehow suggest that the
> > > pinball machine 
> > > is a, well, "epistemological model" for the novel?! & if so: can
> > this
> > > be 
> > > observed as a pop-cultural meta-framing of the text? how is gr's
> > > pinball machine 
> > > related to the video-games in vineland? 
> > > 
> > >  kfl   
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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