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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.179.250.140
Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 12:44 am:   

I want a Simpsons novel, to be immersed in that world and feel it like it's real. Smell it, explore the place, feel the heat of the sun bouncing off the fences and the seasons change.
I don't think I will interact with a young person in any significant way ever again. Ive no need to and fear them anyway. That world is gone. Alien.
I'd like a sequel to a few films. Close Encounters, say - Neary comes back, nobody believes him, we see no aliens. There was one particular film I thought of today but have forgotten. Maybe it was ANY film, the idea of sequels especially to old films - fascinates me.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 08:16 pm:   

I interact with "young" (early 20's) people (almost all girls) often, because of my job. I find this peculiar, at least about contemporary American girls - they're quite fine and natural and friendly, interacting with older men. "But back in my day!"... well, back then, the young of that age wanted nothing to do with people over the age of 30/40 - they didn't even really exist, they were like rocks to frogs. In that regard, things have changed. Of course, these girls have mostly been raised in broken homes with no father figure present - does that have something to do with it?

Recent sequels to old films, they haven't come off well, from my viewings. The Two Jakes promised much, delivered almost nothing worth noting. Psycho II I remember being a bit better in that regard. 2010 (sequel to 2001) I remember hating, took away all the mystery of the first one - talk about a film that's been utterly memory-holed!
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.179.70.231
Posted on Monday, March 09, 2020 - 06:25 pm:   

Where do you work, Craig? (A question I hate btw)
You see I agree about sequels but still think they appeal to me. But I want INTERESTING sequels, and wish they would happen.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2020 - 06:07 am:   

I work in a flower shop, Tony - mindless work, just as I like it. I also read for the American Film Institute, but that work's dried up over the years - I don't complain about that.

I'm trying to think what I would like to see a sequel to... off-hand, I can think of nothing.... The great movies are complete, and so, you're satisfied in a way that needs no more. Prequels, they'd inevitably ruin the source material. Actually - hang on - I'd love to see a prequel to The Shining - the things that went on in that hotel - call it Overlook - hell, that's a perfect series... I'm sure it's in development as we speak....
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 109.155.160.42
Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2020 - 09:00 am:   

I've heard it is, but you see I'd fear it would remove a degree of mystery. It's currently happening with Doctor Who, explaining his origins, elevating him to God levels. I hate it.
A game I like to play is imagining some movies are actual sequels or prequels, though they're not, like ET, which could be a sequel to Star Wars, Elliot a Jedi in the modern age, the toys he plays with a clue of grace memories of a last age, ET a remnant of it. Such phantom sequels don't crop up much.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 213.233.150.52
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 - 12:38 pm:   

OVERLOOK could be great. Like a horror version of GRAND HOTEL. The Val Lewton films connect up a bit. I think there's mention of the island of San Sebastian (from I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE) in... I think... THE GHOST SHIP.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 213.205.241.134
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 - 02:22 pm:   

Thinking of sequels to films is a great way to think of new films.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2020 - 08:28 pm:   

Believe it or not, a movie I'd love to see a sequel to - but it would have to be same style, same kind of actors, same kind of locations, etc.; i.e., it could not deviate from the vision of the original, though it might improve on the technique - but a film I'd love to see a sequel to, is Burial Ground, 1981.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 109.154.254.251
Posted on Sunday, April 05, 2020 - 09:54 am:   

The zombie film? I've never seen it. God, I sometimes think I'm not a horror fan, I've seen so few. Also, I don't seem to enjoy the ones I used to. What's going on? :-(
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.153.35.179
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2020 - 09:35 am:   

What if angels were radioactive?
What if art were a magical act that divined the truth about reality?
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 109.151.241.144
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2020 - 08:32 pm:   

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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 45.24.89.171
Posted on Saturday, September 05, 2020 - 02:50 am:   

You might like BG,Tony. It is SO amateur... or maybe, they just didn't care - to tell a traditional story, that is. It is much like a nightmare, and I'm being descriptive - senseless, weird, incongruous, even the regular people are off - the scariest thing in it is the "boy"! See it - you might take to it.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 109.151.241.144
Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 - 03:07 pm:   

Will do.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2020 - 05:12 pm:   

I was opening the Pluto TV app on my phone the other day - it's free streaming channels, with TONS of annoying commercials, but whatever - anyway, it was on some movie channel. And though I've never seen the movie, I instantly recognized it; and in a mere, oh, ten seconds max, I hated it intensely. My instincts were right never to have watched it, I feel. Those ten seconds were just completely faux: it's as if the camera, Hollywood, the existence of viewer and filmmaker, of something created for the purposes of entertainment watched on a flat screen, had finally pulled the heart out of its victim, us: everything about it inauthentic to the core, but desperate to make that very inauthenticity the real part, instead of the story, the human passions, character, major themes - but knowing it couldn't anyway, because the medium was too powerful now, the medium is only capable of KILLING, of human sacrifice, of ghastly spectacle, it's too late --

Big build-up. But I'm serious. This is how I felt in a mere 10 seconds of viewing Mel Gibson's Apocalypto.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 109.249.184.195
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2020 - 10:36 am:   

It sounds like the story of the film summed up what you experienced.
I hate all the choice we have, all the scrolling I do to find SOMETHING. I once spent almost an hour doing this, making it too late to put something on. I actually like the Pluto app, seeing something that has already started. There's a sense of catching something while it's still there, which we aren't used to anymore.
My son has been booted off facebook for a while, "Facebook jail", which is actually a kind of freedom that he actually enjoys. The real jail is being back on it (of course).
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 109.249.184.195
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2020 - 10:38 am:   

Watched some of Repulsion. Realised bow that Carol is not mad at all.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 172.112.29.83
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2020 - 05:16 pm:   

Indeed, Tony! And it carries into actual theater-going. My mom and dad, growing up in the 40s/50s, said no one paid much attention to when a movie started - they just showed up to a theater, saw what looked good, and would go in halfway through, then sit past the end to get the part they came in on. Monty Python refers to this in one of their skits, and it's become a common phrase in the parlance, I wonder if people know from where it derives? "This is where we came in."

Yes, there was that wonderful experience of wading into a stream - of turning on the TV and seeing what was flowing by at that moment - seeing something intriguing and just going along with it. Even the commercials seem like a better time - the forced break, the constant pause from our engagement to give us breathing room, a sense of reality back.

Oh hell... I'm waxing nostalgic, aren't I? Actually, more like lamenting things gone that were not so bad after all, in retrospect.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted on Monday, September 14, 2020 - 05:21 pm:   

It's been a long time since I saw REPULSION. Polanski is one of the geniuses of film, and if he only ever made ROSEMARY'S BABY and CHINATOWN, he'd be... well, those are his best, actually, and did he surpass them? Not really, though his other films are exceedingly excellent. But those are peaks, and the rest are in valleys. Not like Altman, who is one long plain of quality, so all of his movies remain sort of equally memorable (being equally great).

I went back to watch an old movie to see if it stood up since my childhood watching it, the last time I probably saw it - THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, with Danny Kaye. Um... no. It stands up not at all. It is garbage. Colorful lush garbage, but garbage nevertheless. Wow... you mean to tell me Robin Williams saw Kaye in this, and actually wanted to build a career on that?!? (I joke, there.)
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 212.129.77.116
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2020 - 08:02 pm:   

Anyone see ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD? I really enjoyed it.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 217.43.47.4
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2020 - 08:09 pm:   

Yes, but as someone who feels a bit sympathetic towards the Mansons I found it a bit painful to watch. One of the girls was quite a victim herself and they made her seem much harder and more articulate than she was.
But I liked the atmosphere.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 12:47 pm:   

Oh, I don't really know much about that side of things. I was focusing on Hollywood. That montage where the neon lights all come on felt like a reversal of decay, a triumph of beauty. The arrival of spring for the art, culture and beauty.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 217.43.47.4
Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 02:14 pm:   

Yes, you're totally right. I think Tarantino WAS thinking of the big picture, that dark time was a rot setting in. I've noticed films spoiled by a tone, a kind of knowing tone, the opposite of that instinctive nature Di Caprio seemed to represent. I loved the scene with him and the girl.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.28.166
Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 03:26 pm:   

How to see something old and familiar all over again.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/headgum/newcomers-star-wars-with-lauren-lapkus- nicole-byer/e/66908822
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.29.159
Posted on Monday, October 26, 2020 - 10:26 am:   

What if we thought of writers and artists as scientists? Engineers?
What a life.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/may/17/per- kirkeby-obituary
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 89.19.67.203
Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 09:17 am:   

Yes, it's a time when multi-disciplinary generalists are not sufficiently rewarded I think.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.30.194
Posted on Tuesday, November 03, 2020 - 12:50 pm:   

Been to a caravan site again, one part of Flamingoland, a funfair cum zoo. For years we have been going there with friends and family, renting rows of multiple caravans. This year it was me and my son, who does not want to stop going. We got a caravan near the cabins, at the end of a road. It felt deserted down there, like there was only us in the whole place. I cannot explain how eerie it felt. It conjured a niggling of slight panic I've only felt in deep woods. The rest of the place was pretty busy, with crowds out for the end of season fireworks. But last day we left early, saw barely a soul, and the little froghopper ride my son rode in over twenty years ago, still there after many others have come and gone.
It was nice and not nice being there. Exactly like a dream where you see familiar places but something is off, it's a copy. I enjoyed, but I am not sure I liked being back there.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.29.152.227
Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 11:50 am:   

What if werewolves could transform at any time, for a matter of seconds, and attack people even in crowded places?
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Sunday, December 20, 2020 - 01:21 pm:   

Had lots of bird encounters yesterday. A dead swan in a river in a city. I stepped on a curlew on marshland but it flew from under my boot. Minutes later we watch a murmuration of starlings, and it is one of the moments of my life. We will never be so connected as these creatures. We will never be greater or more beautiful as a whole as we are individually as they are. I felt like I was witnessing our damnation.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.24.167
Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 06:23 pm:   

We went out to walk the dogs a long way in the dark last night. So dark and our torches weren't great. It felt so daunting in a way it isn't through the day. The trees seemed thicker and deeper and unfamiliar. A couple of things happened, one of our dogs, Fargo, disappeared over a barbed wire fence for ages - i had a huge meltdown, shouting for ages, even stamping the ground with my feet, when in the middle of it we see one of the biggest shooting stars i have ever seen, a big white lumbering thing that left a wayward trail like some falling, burning elephant. It was so stunning but I was still shouting, and my wonder felt small, but so did the shouting... it felt significant, but in a way I am still digesting. Then we walked up to where a busy road divided the tree tunnel path, but just before the path we saw what resembled Chris Lee Dracula standing there, staring in our direction. It was SO unnerving, even though we knew it was illusory, but heck, it made Dracula TERRIFYING, utterly! Of couse he became nothing as we got nearer, but what a buzz. It felt valuable, too, as did the tree tunnel - a pure, tangled branch tunnel with moon above. Our torch could not light up the far end - it was a black void the whole way. It was incredible, and beautifully weird and lonely. But the weird part was we reached a tiny hilltop village, and we had to wait a while for my wife to collect us. This tiny village where i could not help gaze into windows of people laid on sofas watching tv, and an old woman's bungalow with grandkids photos on the mantel, the room again dimly lit by a tv glow. We had to sit outside a pub that would have once been open and bustling, me looking at this old woman's window. I got thinking of how GREAT tv was, a blessing against loneliness, whatever dross was on, because up here on this lonely hilltop i was suddenly aware of times before tv and radio, even books,and the sense of how lonely and frightening those times must have been. I suppose I was thinking movies and the like felt like a fireside glow, and that glow was changing, and it felt like the land were changing again, and how it must have felt when radio and tv came, how great it must have been. If it was...
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.24.167
Posted on Monday, February 22, 2021 - 12:21 pm:   

I hate everybody.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Monday, February 22, 2021 - 01:20 pm:   

I hate everybody.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.24.167
Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 01:04 am:   

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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.24.167
Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 10:08 am:   

Dogs would hate outer space.
People have always thought they were the modern ones.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.24.167
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2021 - 05:07 pm:   

What if the universe fails if you are in a struggling relationship? I mean that truthfully.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.24.167
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2021 - 05:12 pm:   

Some great conversations here. Gold dust.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.11.24.167
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2021 - 05:15 pm:   

It's like a novel.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 2.102.0.95
Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2021 - 10:29 am:   

Hello again.
Found a tiny yellow action figure poking up from the mud in the woods yesterday, a Star Trek figure I could tell straight away, from the old Motion Picture. I thought it was Kirk but it turned out to be Decker, the one who went off into another world. The figure is 43 years old, nearly half a century.
It was so exciting. And sad - there was something hopeful in Trek (it was what it was about) but it seems nothing good has happened since that film came out of Decker began his sleep.
But last night I could not stop thinking what else was out there and how it got there. Also, what or who MADE all these things, and how amazing the most ordinary things were, our houses, plumbing, electricity. Decker had come from Hong Kong, further than anywhere I will ever travel, and ended up in a wood, sleeping there for years. How??
Bye.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 212.129.79.59
Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 10:43 am:   

Maybe put him back? Give it another few hundred years and see what a world he wakes up in. Do people periodically update time capsules and replant them? That might be interesting, to get one that had generations of input. I wonder if urban time capsules would fare better than rural ones? Much less likely that a city park will be rezoned I suppose.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 2.102.0.95
Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 04:35 pm:   

I love this interview.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/14/mark-leckey-interview-tate- britain
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 108.221.136.29
Posted on Monday, May 17, 2021 - 07:47 pm:   

Hey Tony - what do you make of the fact that you opined there about the figure of Decker from STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE... and... I'm not sure you're aware of this or not... did you know the actor that played Decker, Stephen Collins, way back in 2014, was essentially "cancelled" utterly - I mean, COMPLETELY - because of sexual conduct allegations that came out in the course of his messy public divorce?

The TV show he was on, "7th Heaven," which was SUPER popular when it ran, has since never been in syndication? Too toxic.

He was completely and utterly erased from the popular culture... he was cast out into the utter darkness... he was as "taken out and buried in the woods" as much as that very figure you found... in light of your writings there, how... weird, or eerie or something....

(It's back up!)

(No one, for all eternity [except Tony], will ever know what I meant by that paranthetical aside.)
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 2.102.5.67
Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 08:06 am:   

Shit. I looked him up. It looks like he didn't do a LOT, but that what he did was pretty gross.
But why oh why did I have to see a picture of one of the girls from the time? She was about 5 foot tall with boobs and looked like a proto Big Bang Penny. :-(
Now he has a wife half his age, 35 or something, and does transcendental meditation, and I feel uneasy having a plastic model of him sitting on the radio by my bed.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 108.221.136.29
Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 06:59 pm:   

"Lock up your daughter, lock up your wife... lock your back door, and run for your life!"

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