BEg2 chapter 2 my .02...ah, Gabriel Ice...

[Mark Kohut]

MB: "Sort of a one-stop corporate bad guy Scarsdale Vibe for the new
millennium."

You iced him, Mike, imo......showing P's coherence of vision and America's
imho.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 11:32 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
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