"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Dr. Menlo: censored by China, Blogsnob and "The Lefty Directory"
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Met an audiophile who had gone to a Sun City Girls' show.
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Post a CommentHe swore up and down that they came on stage, piled up some wood and lit it.
Then they went and got hot dogs and buns and toasted them over a fire, then they walked off stage.