Dagwood222

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Back in the day, both Harlan Ellison and Hunter Thompson wrote about the economics of being a writer. Around 1970 [iirc] Ellison said that if he sold one TV script a year he could pay his bills and write what he wanted. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" has a chapter on being a 'drop out.' A biker could get a Union stevedore job and save enough in six months to hit the road for two years. A part time waitress could keep herself and her musician boyfriend going.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

https://youtu.be/c91XUyg9iWM

'Jane, you ignorant slut,' was often used by Jane's costars during the show.

Here's her typical response.

https://youtu.be/r29-JkdKDec

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

They wanted him on SNL because the target audience had grown up hearing his voice. It was supposed to be funny, having someone associated with the blandest shows announcing for the degenerate antics of stoners like Belushi and ignorant sluts like Jane Curtain.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Or people could stop thinking small.

Back in the day, the GOP was completely controlled by Big Business. A guy named Jerry Falwell saw how Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy had gotten him elected and jumped in. He organized his people at the grassroots level. If there was a local Republican club that got 20 people at the average meeting, Jerry's church group would show up with fifty. At the start, they were getting dog catchers and county clerks in, but eventually their power grew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you tell me what 'bread' means? Thanks

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What's a 'bread?' Thanks in advance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I had to double check. Thought that it was a 'coroner' wagon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

"Ike At The Mike" by Howard Waldrop. Award winning short story. An elderly Dwight Eisenhower is invited to the White House. Ike famously gave up his West Point cadetship to become a jazz musician. Among the attendees honoring him is the young Elvis A. Presley, Senator from Mississippi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I worked retail for exactly one Christmas. The day I worked the toy department they had one album on repeat for eight hours. I hated Christmas music for years, and now it just annoys me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's been three hours and two pots of coffee...I gots nothing!! Nothiong!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Okay, I'll be still for a while. Give you time to advance.

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