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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • Stone cold classic. Can’t speak for everyone else, but for me and my little friends, it really shaped how we saw Vietnam vets as victims. I’d go as far as to say it pumped GenX with the unconditional love we have for vets. Didn’t want to be guilty of that shame again.

    All the actors knocked it out the park. Every scene was so natural, yet the shit that went down was so inevitable. OK, Colonel Troutman overacted it all a bit, but he clearly told us who John Rambo was.





















  • Fahrenheit 451 was fascinating for the sub-story about the TV walls and, “Oh look! The White Clown is on!”

    Best friend held an acid party back in 1991 or so. From where we stood we could see all 3 TVs, 3 different sizes. He said, “Check it out. The attention people pay to the screen is directly proportional to it’s size.” Didn’t matter was was on screen, the larger it was, the more people stared, the less they talked. That’s really stuck with me.

    And the parasocial relationships with the people are the screen foretold much.

    Can’t imagine many would care about book burning today. I only know one other person that reads books, and few even “read” the internet.