VLVL2 (15): Tex Wiener

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Fri May 21 19:20:10 CDT 2004


"She'd been fooled, once again, by the uniform, a
bright silver custom jumpsuit with racing stripes,
flames, and a shoulder patch discreetly reading 'Tex
Wiener Ecole de Pilotage.'
   "And perhaps about to be by Derek, a terminal
sobriety case who favored leather, metal, Nazoid
regalia, and the attitude that went with them, whose
longest sentence was 'Weww--it's oow rubbish, i'n'i'?'
 The perversity of the attraction made Sasha stretch
and shiver, so she had little else on her mind as they
went wandering into the Vineland Palace's Bigfoot Room
...." (VL, Ch. 15, p. 361)


"fooled, once again"

http://www.thewho.net/discography/songs/WontGetFooledAgain.html

p. 361 "...fooled once again by the uniform..."   So
Frenesi comes by her weakness for sadistic uniformed
cops genetically, via Sasha? Or is this something
about how opposites need and create each other?

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm


"Tex Wiener"

Tex:Texas::Wiener:Vienna ...

p. 361 "Tex Wiener"  A Jewish hot dog with a
ten-gallon hat.

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm


"Ecole de Pilotage"

Main Entry: pi·lot·age 
Pronunciation: 'pI-l&-tij
Function: noun
1 : the action or business of piloting
2 : the compensation paid to a licensed ship's pilot

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=pilotage

I.e., The Tex Wiener School of Driving ...


"a terminal sobriety case"

Straight-edge refers to a philosophy that's most basic
tenets promote a drug free lifestyle. It developed as
an offshoot of the punk rock/hardcore scenes of the
early 1980's when the term itself is believed to have
been coined by Ian Mackaye, in the self titled song,
while he was the singer of the seminal hardcore band,
Minor Threat. Mackaye eschewed the nihilistic
tendencies of punk rock, promoting instead the simple
(almost simplistic) philosophy of "don't drink/ don't
smoke/ don't fuck." 

In the 12 years since the demise of Minor Threat,
these simple beliefs have transformed the minds of
scores of teens worldwide. Increasingly disenchanted
with societal ills, young men and women adopt the
straight-edge doctrine as a blueprint to better first
themselves, and then the world in which they live.
While the original definition of straight-edge only
included the rejection of mind altering substances and
promiscuous sex, modern interpretations include a
vegetarian (or vegan) diet and an increasing
involvement and awareness of environmental and
political issues. 

http://www.straight-edge.com/definition.html

http://www.straight-edge.com/


"'Weww--it's oow rubbish, i'n'i'?'"

E.g., ...

http://www.robhalford.com/

http://www.judaspriest.com/


"Bigfoot Room"

http://skepdic.com/bigfoot.html

http://www.beckjord.com/bigfoot/

http://www.unmuseum.org/bigfoot.htm

http://home.nycap.rr.com/wwilliams/BigfootFAQ.html

Long, Greg.  The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story.
   Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004.

http://www.prometheusbooks.com/catalog/book_1444.html

http://www.prometheusbooks.com/

And recall as well ...

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-591/epid-33063/

http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/smdm/bionicbigfoot.shtml

Have the figure, the novelization AND an autographed
still photograph ...


	
		
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