From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Feb 16, 2003 1:00 PM
A big tip of the foreskin to THE MYSTERY PERSON(S) in
Texas who put
that lovely 48x firewire CDRW machine (and "accessories")
in the Sacred
PO Box North!
It now takes like 1.4 minutes to burn an Hour of Slack!
Also this frees the Gription-Clench-donated DVD burner
to function as a
PLAYER, meaning I can store the SubGenius album masters
on three or
four DVDs and go straight from those to the burner,
rather than storing
the dubbing masters on my hard drives, which I had started
doing.
That donation saved us about $100, part of which I spent
on a nice new
clean WHITE keyboard instead of the dandruff-advertising,
dimly visible
BLACK keyboard that came with the Mac.
I got #877 dubbed and mailed out in such record time
that Wei and I
spent all yesterday FUCKING OFF for Valentine's Weekend.
Among the many
off-fucking things we did were watching the movies "The
Big Lebowski"
and "The Hollow Man."
I can see why so many people consider" The Big
Lebowski" one of their
favorite movies. I have seen it twice now and I cackled
like an idiot
all the way through, both times. The Dude is an easy
character to
identify with, especially if one happens to share his
haircut, mode of
dress, income level, general lifestyle and aptitude
for real SWUFT
thinking.
I thought "The Hollow Man" was quite good
for the first hour. Its
climax was such a huge let-down, however, that it negated
what came
before. I am sick to fucking death of movies in which
I can predict
every single fireball long before the protagonist is
flying through the
air in front of it. I am sick to death of movies where
the instant you
see the comedy relief character, you know he's going
to die and when. I
cannot take any more instances of the bad guy being
"killed" but then
WHEN THE GOOD BOY AND GIRL HUG EACH OTHER IN RELIEF,
THE BAD GUY
SUDDENLY COMES BACK TO LIFE AND ATTACKS *AGAIN*! Which
now commonly
happens up to FOUR TIMES per ending. It actually WORKED
for John
Carpenter's HALLOWEEN in the ealry seventies.
Anyway, thanks for the free gear, the time off and the
keyboard.
Whoever you are. Tell me and I will send you a ton of
keen unpublished
swag.
Original file name: Thanks for the CD Burner and OE - converted on Monday, 21 July 2003, 13:44
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