The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

"Veeeeeeeeeeeery Interesting" 

[Artie Johnson, "Laugh-In"---a touch of that ole': 

"Hey, weren't them Nazis really loveable scamps?" 

Monty Python/Goons/Bonzo Dog Band sorta thing,

[Irritating, high monotonous voice: "Appaling form of animal 
guising, really---makes you feel filthy all over just thinking 
about it, what with those suits, and those little S.S. pins and 
the smell of their boot polish, oh my god!" 

                    [angished moan] 

[as performed by Terry Jones, graduate of Medieval History at 
St Edmund Hall, Oxford.]

"Veeeeeeeeeeeery Interesting---but shtoopid ! ! ! " 

[heavy on the laugh track, quick cut to some other lame shit.]

            RCA had marketed its first television recievers in 1939, 
            and now, nine years later, there were still fewer than a 
            million sets in America, and almost half of those were 
            in New York. Those who had them had not been able 
            to see much. But now those ugly little devices were 
            beginning to hum and flicker with gathering gales of 
            gray insect fury , joy and plague, mediocrity and 
            madness, from that vast funhouse maw of metastatic 
            delights.
            Dino, Nick Tosches

         "What's a Thanatoid. OK, it's actually short for 'Thanatoid 
         personality.' 'Thanatoid' means 'like death, only different.' "

         "Do you understand this?" Takeshi asked DL.

         "Near as I can tell, they all live together in Thanatoid apartment
         buildings, or Thanatoid houses in Thanatoid villages. Housing's 
         modular and pretty underfurnished, they don't own many 
         stereos, paintings, carpets, furniture, knicknacks, crockerey, 
         flatware, none o' that, 'cause why bother, that about right, OB?

         "Uhk ee ahkhh uh akh uh Oomb," said the kid through a big 
         mouthful of Takeshi's food.

         " 'But we watch a lot of Tube,' " DL translated. 

Just noting that Entertainment Weekley/Weakly is a mouthpiece for 
corporate giant Time Warner, who I hear is in the movie business. 

I seriously have to wonder: how many of those titles are Time 
Warner properties?
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