Re: The Usual Gang of Idiots
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captainsblogI linked in my last post, offhandedly as always, to a Godfather parody having been included in an unaired MAD magazine TV special from the 70s. Two things I did not realize on account of not reading the whole entry there:
* It was aired, although never on a network. Some local stations picked it up and inserted their own commercials into it.
* Dude. They included the whole thing as part of the entry!
MAD was my solace in the 70s, the anti-Nixon. The irony was that my godparents, two of the most rabid Republicans you'd ever meet, were the ones who gave me a gift subscription to it when I was 13, that lasted virtually into college. I think they just saw the funny tv-show parody covers on the copies their three boys brought into the house and never inspected further for subversive Commieism. Ah, there was plenty of that- subversion if not actual Commies- and much of it became the base of my comic brain. One of my most treasured high school graduation mementos was a letter we got from MAD editor Nick Meglin, to whom somebody on our literary-slash-humor magazine staff had sent a review copy, complimenting us on our chops. I might even still have a copy, which might well have been run off on a mimeograph machine back then.
This is serious nostalgia- for me, anyway.
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* It was aired, although never on a network. Some local stations picked it up and inserted their own commercials into it.
* Dude. They included the whole thing as part of the entry!
MAD was my solace in the 70s, the anti-Nixon. The irony was that my godparents, two of the most rabid Republicans you'd ever meet, were the ones who gave me a gift subscription to it when I was 13, that lasted virtually into college. I think they just saw the funny tv-show parody covers on the copies their three boys brought into the house and never inspected further for subversive Commieism. Ah, there was plenty of that- subversion if not actual Commies- and much of it became the base of my comic brain. One of my most treasured high school graduation mementos was a letter we got from MAD editor Nick Meglin, to whom somebody on our literary-slash-humor magazine staff had sent a review copy, complimenting us on our chops. I might even still have a copy, which might well have been run off on a mimeograph machine back then.
This is serious nostalgia- for me, anyway.
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In other brief newziz:
* Message to
glenmarshall: What she said. May hippos, birdies and ewes all abound today:)* I am in serious shoulder pain from my last workout, but I am working on working out a workout to work it out.
* Since I don't want to inflict any more information on anyone here about my return to Planet Fitness Not The Franchise unless you want to read it, here's the deal: I'm going to use my long-dormant Dreamwidth account for exercisish posts. ("Funny, you don't look exercisish." "Yeah, but I will if this goes well.") From there, it will appear on my friendspage (and yours, too, if you click this here link where it says, duh, add this feed). Alternatively, you could read it on Dreamwidth. Or just ignore it. Whatever floats.
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