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Dependence Day
When John did his Humphrey Bogart imitation for Lauren Bacall, he said, "Why did you hit me in the face with a coconut cream pie? Listen, Shorty, you've got five minutes to bring me my rabbit!"— July 6, 2008 3 p.m.
The Whole Friday the 13th Thing
John, Ergot poisoning, or ergotism, also has been blamed for the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials. Ergot turns the ordinary wheat kernel into a large, purplish-black kernel. I saw it often enough in Illinois, while I was working on the farm. Ergot induces perceptual distortions and causes women to miscarry. What better proof of witchcraft? Ergot also served as the substance from which Albert Hoffman derived LSD. My favorite Friday the 13th story: my hero Lester Young refused to attend a recording session scheduled for Friday the 13th. Count Basie fired him because of that, and that is how Lester came to leave the Basie band. A true story, and a self-fulfilling prophecy. There are lots more good Lester Young stories, for example, his trial for drug abuse in the Army. See you. Cosmo P.S. How do I get to meet that blonde girl lying on her stomach in the Reader ads?— June 14, 2008 1:30 p.m.
Like Young
John, did you make it to the Adams Street Fair last night?— May 3, 2008 9:34 a.m.
Taking Dancing for Granted
John, Egghead? Not hardly. If there was anybody we knew back then who could have stepped right out of a Jack Kerouac novel it was Bob Secketa. I will tell you more about it when I see you next.— April 28, 2008 10:28 p.m.
Taking Dancing for Granted
More: You can see John Belushi Po-Do for about one second in Animal House, but he calls it by another, unintelligible name.— April 27, 2008 11:48 a.m.
Taking Dancing for Granted
My best Po-Do night was in the summer of 1967 in Libertyville Illinois on the dance floor on the second story of a teen-age night club called The Cave while The Syns were playing Bury My Body, which was the one and only Po-Do song. Bob Secketa was there. The girls were beautiful. The Po-Do was sort of a dance but actually more like something that was a dance and a non-dance at the same time. It was magical.— April 26, 2008 12:42 p.m.
Voices of the Damned
Bonnie del Vecchio spends most of her time remembering MY thighs.— April 6, 2008 3:43 p.m.
Tie Ilya Kaminsky up, make sure he stays at SDSU
Maybe the Czech papers did not celebrate Franz Kafka's 75th anniversary, but you must admit that the memory of Kafka is all over the Prague like he is their biggest tourist attraction: the Kafka Museum, Kafka Cafe, Kafka Bookstore, Kafka's birthplace, surrealistic outdoor statue of Kafka, Kafka's home on the Golden Lane, the Kafka family's apartment just off the Staromestska, etc.— March 31, 2008 12:59 a.m.
Larry
Life is just a bowl of Larry's.— March 31, 2008 12:43 a.m.
Cavalcade of Raunch
Hollywood a Go Go? Who out there besides me remembers Lada Edmunds, Jr., dancing on Hullabaloo?— March 28, 2008 10:50 p.m.