The fine art of missing the point

Keith McMullen schwitterz11 at netscape.net
Tue Mar 7 21:17:21 CST 2006


I think it's been fun......from Barry Manilow to MC5......pretty serious 
progress.......with some great stops along the way.......and that 
roll-your-own website is actually killer.....the perique is great, as is 
the Turkish......mixing them is just ridiculous bliss.......


michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com wrote:

> while laughing out loud, it all came back to me: I realized that there 
> was a mention of a reference to a lesser Barry Manilow song which 
> included the phrase "slip the talcum to me, Malcolm"
>
> while I was wondering if Barry Manilow was a Pynchon fan, or just a 
> Malcolm X fan, somebody used a quote from that comedian Bill Hicks to 
> demonstrate something, and then somebody objected to somebody's 
> objection, and somebody else linked to a roll-your-own website that 
> looks pretty good (but no Latakia on it) and then we got turned on to 
> youtube, and then we got cross-mojination and their heads 
> exploded...you know, that thing...




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