The Off Topic Topic

[CountDeMoney]

Maryland music has sucked ass balls since Little Richard took a piss between connecting flights.

[Tonitrus]

Maryland music has sucked ass balls since Little Richard took a piss between connecting flights.

I like Clutch. 

[CountDeMoney]

Pfft, they lasted, what, a few months longer than Jimmy's Chicken Shack.

Besides, they're from Germantown, which is Monkey County, which is DC.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Well, it's hard to complain about Buddy Holly, but Stevie Ray Vaughan was pretty fuckin awesome too (blues though).  ZZ Top could be on there for sheer beard power.  Janis Joplin was from Corpus, IIRC. 

E:  Oops I was wrong.  Joplin was from Port Arthur.  A few hours up the coast from Corpus. 

[Neil]

Blast from the past: Hunter S. Thompson on Nixon's death:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/

Thompson was a dick.

[Barrister]

Blast from the past: Hunter S. Thompson on Nixon's death:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/

Thompson was a dick.

Absolutely.  But he was an amusing dick.

[Syt]

I should re-read Transmetropolitan. Again.

[katmai]

I wish assholes named Barrister would read their PM's

[Ideologue]

I should re-read Transmetropolitan. Again.

I've got the whole run.  It does sound like a fun idea.

Remember when Warren Ellis had fun ideas?  Ideas?  It was a different age, a golden age.

[Syt]

Transmet (and Preacher) was what got me into contemporary non-superhero comics. I've tried Ellis' other stuff (and his "Crooked Little Vein" novel, but nothing comes close. I fear he's peaked with Transmet and that was that.

[Syt]

[DGuller]

 

[The Brain]

Please don't leave America.

[jimmy olsen]

 

[Lettow77]

 I had a strange notion of a story in which Tyr and CdM switch lives. CdM, the loveable protagonist on hard times, falls into a land of attractive yellow women and stable employment, but finds that it is more than he bargained for. (comedic hijinks ensue.)

Meanwhile, the story opens with Tyr, the eternally-dissatisfied scrooge-esque villain, who bah humbugs at his pleasant and comfortable life, being transported to baltimore. An ensemble cast of loveable dazzling urbanites teach him about real problems, and he gains a sense of perspective (and funk/soul) as he is integrated happily into the black community. (comedic hijinks ensue.)