for 7 July 2000. Updated every WEEKDAY.
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Pass the Mustard, Please, Sister Sunshine Daisy-Hat Well said! I haven't been to a Gathering in 25 years, but it sounds like nothing much has changed. Hurray for the cosmic giggle! Sid Sidner <ssidner@visto.com> What one can usually say about most span-the-decades events is that nothing much has changed except the clothing styles. But even that's kind of the same at the Gatherings! Thanks. — 40SB  Re walker-rocker Steve Miller's list of second-tier venues: ayup. I can tell you that Blockbuster Pavilion in Devore, while definitely out in the back 40, is nonetheless an estimable amphitheater, and perversely, also the home of El Lay's Rennaissance Faire. Why, I've seen such luminaries as Linda Ronstadt play there, though she's, um, fluffier than she was back when Jerry Brown was da Gov. Rob McMillin <rlm@pricegrabber.com> Thanks for writing, Rob. The thing I like about Steve Miller is he's the only musician I know to publicly declare that performing new material at his summer shows was an impossible task, and switched over to an almost all-'70s set list. — 40SB Just a note to say thanks for the fine writing. Suck hasn't thrilled me over the last few months and your well-thought writing will keep me subscribing just a bit longer... Brian Mahoney <bmahoney@chronogram.com> Thanks for the kind and complimentary note, Brian. Anything that keeps you on board for the time being is a good thing. I have to admit, though, I'm not even my own favorite rookie, not as long as cartoonist Peter Bagge keeps contributing essays. — 40SB Suck's armies of the night strike again To: morning@npr.org I hate to be picky, but I feel I would be remiss in not pointing out that this morning's comments on the idealized portraits on the new currency sound suspiciously similar to comments run in www.suck.com over a month ago... At the very least, perhaps somebody would be interested in reading further commentary on the new bills at suck.com/daily/2000/05/25/. Ryan Olson <ryano@anc.net> Thanks for the support, Ryan. Send me your USPS address. Your email alert, although it concerns an NPR program of which I am completely ignorant, deserves a few stickers. Just imagine what you would have gotten if you'd taken the next logical step of dressing up in a bodystocking and fright wig, storming the NPR offices and treating a shocked Corey Flintoff to a tonsil-tickling kiss. I can assure you, your Suck souvenir would have been well worth the effort. But stickers are good too. yr pal, tim Hit & Run ahahahaha...asking homeless people what they think of current issues. That's fucking priceless. That schtick isn't very funny when Tom Green does it, and you don't have the benefit of being able to make funny faces into a camera as you do your interview. As for the Jeffrey Golberg piece, for a more balanced view of politics in that region, read Eric Margolis. And finally, if that's how Al Sharpton would call a football game, get him in the booth! Dennis Miller always takes too long to get to the point anyhow! Malcolm Jean <mjean@fitt.ca> Thanks for your input, Malcolm, but actually we were channeling Jay Leno with those interviews, not Tom Green. We also appreciate that the Suck interviews have met with considerable resistance from our more garrulous readers. But you know, people you stop and interrogate in the street frequently say interesting and surprising things. Our more garrulous readers rarely do that. Sucksters Interesting take on the human genome developments. You get some alcoholism, some racism, and some disease. You should try asking people who are well dressed and who are more affluent. Then it would be amusing. I am sure their ignorance would be amusing, and maybe even a little less depressing. Derek Generic <derek@helixtech.com> It was an abundance of ignorant, depressing interviews with well dressed and affluent people that made us want to interview the homeless in the first place, Derek. And in fact, both Street Sheet Kay and Walgreen's David gave more interesting comments than most of the people we saw on TV. But since you seem to work for a place called Helix Tech, we're not sure we can trust you on this topic at all. Sucksters I loved the interviews with the homeless! I hope you have more in the future. Vicki <vbrown@microsoft.com> Well, they have the most important attribute of great interview subjects: They like to talk and they're used to talking. But given the response they're getting from the Suck readership, it looks like the homeless may not make it past their pilot episode. Sucksters Yes!!! Today's was possibly the best hit & run I've read in a while. More interviews with random people off the street!! :) Actually, thinking about it more clearly, what today's issue resembled an Onion article. Just the feel of the first and last bits had something resembling things from the nation's finest newssource. But it still has that flavor you can only get from Suck, so keep on Sucking (as opposed to sucking) (yeah, how many times have you heard that one) and I'll stop typing now. Over & Out, Morden <morden@mendota.terracom.net> —If Mike Tyson bites off Jesus' ear in a fight, is it a foul or a sacrament? It's in the nature of a glutted market for funny-but- not-haha- funny content written by maggot-white smartasses with public school educations, mediocre publishing credentials and depressingly similar media diets that eventually everything will start to seem like a ripoff of something else. We're just hoping that flavor you can only get from Suck will somehow keep us out of lawsuit territory. Sucksters Subject: Today Compelling reading. Richard Banks <richard.banks@cpa.state.tx.us> Duly noted. Sucksters |
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