every song’s a comeback

An interesting (there’s that word again) follow-up to my previous post, which was a funny follow-up to its previous post: Way back when I was eighteen or nineteen, my friend Damion, who wrote and directed  Neverland, stood in front of the Tower Records on Sunset the day Fabio’s CD came out, with a cardboard sign which read, "I need twelve dollars to buy the Fabio CD." It took him about fifteen minutes to successfully panhandle his way into his own copy of Fabio After Dark.

A few years later, Damion was Garfield for Halloween, but not just any Garfield; the Garfield that was stuck into car windows all over Los Angeles in the early 1990s. He had the giant suction cups and everything, but what really made the costume was after a few drinks, when Damion told anyone who would listen, "Garfield has gingivitis!" It was a very surreal All Hallow’s Eve, to say the very least, and I haven’t even gotten to the part where the drag queen got into some sort of quasi-erotic (or disturbing, I suppose) dance off with a stripper that, strangely, had something to please almost everyone in the ad-hoc audience.

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  3. Apropos Interesting:
    I am really looking forward the next episode of Radio Free Burrito! Any idea what the eta on that is?
    Ps
    11 th post woohoo!!!

  4. I’ve never seen ordinal binary before. Boggles the mind. I don’t know if it’s “technically” correct or not, but I like the idea of writing it as 11rd. Especially cause when you write it like that it just looks like somethings going on.

  9. Ok, I thought this was odd:
    I followed the link to the IMDB listing of ‘Neverland’, and thought it sounded interesting so I put it in my Netflix queue.
    And when you add a film to your queue, Netflix shows you some recommendations that are usually related in some way to what you selected. Either the same actor or similar films.
    But the first 2 recommended films for ‘Neverland’ were ‘Monster’ (with Charlize Theron) and ‘Mr Smith Gets A Hustler’.
    Now I realize that ‘Neverland’ is a dark revision of the story, but this struck me as funny.

  11. Hi Wil,
    I’ve never visited your blog before……and I suppose I haven’t really yet seeing as how this one is temporary, but I just had to say hello, and make a comment. ::grins:: Having been an exotic dancer, I can safely say that random dance-offs with drag queens are not as rare as one might think. They are definitely a sight to behold- especially when the queen is wearing 6″ tall silver glitter thigh high boots and the stripper has bright pink hair and is stripping out of a Winnie the Pooh costume. Perhaps I shouldn’t elaborate on that one.

  12. So funny. We were at our local co-op a couple of weeks ago, getting salad from the salad bar. We both looked at the tables for a place to sit at the same time, and then at each other saying in unison, “I didn’t know Ted Nugent shopped here?!”. Then I got all quiet because I thought, shit, what if it really *is* Mr. Nugent? LOL

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