BEg2 ch 31 references

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Yes, somewhere in VL there is talk of the "Andrew LLoyd Webber Chamber
of..."

The idea evokes such unspeakable horror that the sentence cannot even be
finished, iirc.

Love it.

Am 10.07.2022 um 15:47 schrieb rich:
> some here, froth being spittle from that lisp, no?
>
> https://tenor.com/view/daffy-duck-spitting-gif-21192972
>
> rich
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 2:03 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>   “He’s a greedy little shit,” Eric’s head now in a halo of Daffy Duck froth
>> droplets, “eternity in a motel lounge in Houston Texas with a Andrew Lloyd
>> Webber mix repeating forever on the stereo is too good for his sorry ass.”
>>
>>
>> - Daffy Duck frothing - easy to visualize, hard to find an image of
>>
>> - Andrew Lloyd Webber - also dissed in _Vineland_
>>
>>
>>
>> “Seems [Eric] has recently launched the Vomit Kurser, named in homage to
>> the ill-regarded Comet Cursor of the nineties and developed in partnership
>> with a bruja from one of his old neighborhoods. Via eye-catching but fake
>> pop-up ads promising health, wealth, happiness &c, the Kurser will
>> surreptitiously lay old-school curses on selected targets—click in once,
>> your ass is grass. Somehow, as the Latina sorceress has explained to Eric,
>> the Internet as it turns out exhibits a strange affinity for the dynamics
>> of curses, especially when written in the more ancient languages predating
>> HTML. Through the uncountable cross-motives of the cyberworld, the fates of
>> unreflective click-happy users are altered for the worse—systems crash,
>> data are lost, bank accounts are looted, all of which being
>> computer-related you might expect, but then there are also the realworld
>> inconveniences, such as zits, unfaithful spouses, intractable cases of
>> Running Toilet, providing the more metaphysically inclined further evidence
>> that the Internet is only a small part of a much vaster integrated
>> continuum.”
>>
>>
>>         -  I remember buying in Books-a-Million, in the late 90s, an issue
>> of an apparently short-lived periodical devoted to applications of Chaos
>> Magick on the Internet. People trying similar ideas in cockeyed
>> half-seriousness. Seemed less implausible back then, maybe?
>>
>> But also, here extending the idea - propounded in other places by Maxine’s
>> father, inter many alia - that the Internet isn’t all rainbows and
>> unicorns.
>>
>> And warping the mundane notion of malware into
>> fantastical/science-fictional shape.
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