The Whole Sick Crew

[kelber at mindspring.com]

How about a Slothrop action figure (with a V-2 rocket and pig suit accessories) or a V-doll with detachable parts?

I made a visit to the sci-fi bookstore Forbidden Planet the other day, in search of The Space Merchants by Pohl, only to discover that their sci-fi selection truly sucks -- it's been encroached upon by their much larger graphic novels section.  Their action figures section was dominated by Dr. Who figures.

I checked two B & N's for the Pohl book and likewise came up empty-handed.  It's a problem considering my bank account usually has a negative balance and my credit rating is horrific, so ordering online isn't currently an option.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
>Sent: Mar 29, 2008 11:36 AM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: The Whole Sick Crew
>
>Well, let me tell you a thing or two. . . .
>Being a guy with a name like Robin can do a number 
>on your head, particularly in a place like the East Bay. 
>
>So you want a Xena action figure, eh?
>
>http://www.leeanne.com/mamabears/
>
>I mean to say, on top of the aforementioned I developed a 
>fascination with Feminism [not the fuzzy, warm shot-
>through Vaseline Lipstick Lesbians but Buzz-cut separatists
>like Mary Daly] in a time and place where such happenings were 
>happening. Such a place was Mama Bears and you never 
>saw such a temple to Xena in your life, oh my Goddess.
>
>Further up the street there was a "Collector's Shop" where 
>the proprietor claimed [rather convincingly] that he in fact was
>the "Comic Book" of Simpsons lore, said proprietor's claim
>backed up by some background on Matt Groening's taste
>in music and the near vicinity of Amoeba Records:
>http://www.amoeba.com/
>
>And then there's Serendipity Books: 
>http://www.serendipitybooks.com/
>
>University Press Books: http://www.universitypressbooks.com/
>owned The Musical Offering: http://www.musicaloffering.com/
>where I worked for nearly ten years. 
>
>Mike Masley: http://magnatune.com/artists/masley
>often could be heard on Telegraph Ave, and the
>Explicit Players might be shocking someone's
>sensibilities somewhere near People's Park
>[do not open at work]:
> http://www.bodyfreedom.org/media_nma/nn0073.jpg
>
>Somewhere in the Gourmet Ghetto, Witches are
>assembling: http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bfuu/cuups.html
>
>Meanwhile, I.G. Farben is setting up shop in my backyard:
>http://www.founditatbayer.com/locations_berkeley.htm
>http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2007-04-24/article/26895
>
>...a-a-a-and, uh. . . .somehow, I have this "signed" copy of Gravity's Rainbow. . . .
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:06 AM,  <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > Cody's on Telegraph, alas, is no more....
>> 
>> That's too bad.  I was there a couple/three times in the 90s.  I
>> recall a place simply called Universityt Books or somesuch where I
>> picked up a few things as well (inc. Joseph McElroy's Plus), and a
>> used place which practically siren-called me in, where I found a copy
>> of A.A. Attanasio's Beastmarks (having stupidly NOT picked up teh copy
>> which sat @ my comic book shop of choice @ the time UNTIL I decided I
>> could blow twenty-five bills on it [a LOT of money for a slender
>> volume of SF shorts back in teh day]); also, a sued Xena:Warrior
>> Princess, uh, "action figure," still in the box.  But when on the
>> Third Coast ...
>> 
>> http://semcoop.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
>