BEg2 chapter 2 my .02

[Michael Bailey]

Duck stamps - recurring motif, CoL49 & AtD

AtD even has the bit about sticking the precious rarity on a letter

“Irwin always pays retail, being the 301.83 in the relationship” - 301.83
being the DSM code for Borderline Personality Disorder

On stamp collecting, seems like a kind of cool habit if you look at it
right. It can accumulate value, but also having a stamp collection makes
you have to arrange them, put them in a protective covering, have a safe
place to keep all that, lore about the stamps, other collectors, some
source of income to support the habit.
Like Zoyd’s ham-shaped trailer, eventually you end up building a house
around it.
Maybe I’ll start collecting stamps myself.


Hashslingrz what is their deliverable?
I map them to Google

And hwgaawgh to YouTube -

 I conceive their relationship of hwgaawgh’s subornation by Hashslingrz as
an exaggerated version of Google acquiring YouTube (which was actually
founded in 2005 and acquired in 2006 - I remember when people first started
posting YouTube links to the p-list)

This is fuzzy logic on my part. The parts I like best are the human
relations & the wordplay/jokes so I form a big clay Golem McGuffin out of
other things that seem important but are less pleasing to contemplate. This
is one of those.

Fiction fictitiously applied to fiction, but such details as I’ve ferreted
out do point to Hashslingrz being one of those companies needing lots of
servers and locations, so Gabriel Ice would be like an amalgam of Jeff
Bezos, the Google guys, and the rapacity of Bill Gates & the
want-to-control-everything of Steve Jobs…
Sort of a one-stop corporate bad guy Scarsdale Vibe for the new millennium.

But this is one reason I value these reads so highly, they tend towards, as
Paige Browning said in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, “transcending the
bullshit.”

Actually reading the more involved parts instead of giving them a probably
inaccurate tag* and moving on to the next joke or characterization or the
next expletive, like Fat Freddy of the Furry Freak Brothers does when the
students occupy the library and he goes looking for the “fuck books,” is
something I rarely do without peer pressure.

So - glad to be here!


* I often repeat how I missed the part in the Kafka story where the guy
turns into a bug, and wrote a paper without knowing that plot element.
Couldn’t figure out why everyone was so nasty to him, but focused the paper
on the relationship with his father.
Still made a B, but one could do better.