BEg2 ch 31 references

[Michael Bailey]

Thanks for that - I knew it was out there!

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 9:47 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> some here, froth being spittle from that lisp, no?
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> https://tenor.com/view/daffy-duck-spitting-gif-21192972
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> rich
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> On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 2:03 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  “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
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>> - Andrew Lloyd Webber - also dissed in _Vineland_
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>>
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>> “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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