The Sudden Curve

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Gnomedex 4 :: Nerd Alert!

Sunset on Lake Tahoe. From the corner office, mini-bar... 13th floor of Harrah's.

Moblodged with a Zire 71

Gnomedex '04 :: Outward Bound

MEMO: from Supreme Uber Junker to all Editors @ Large.

TSC 1 is waiting at the dock, so we'll be trying some newfangled, whizbang, paleskinned-geek moblogging later. We'll meet at the Sammy Davis Room in Harrah's at Tahoe for a photo shoot. That is, if ROBO packed the para-power camera ... crap! And did we lock the door? ? ? Someone go back to the office and check ...

(And yes, animal rights activists, FLUFFY the Sudden Curve mascot is aboard and perfectly fine and has not been beheaded despite his terrifying ordeal at the hands of "Baghdad Bob" Wallace. Thanks to all the extorted book money Bob collected! Whew, it was a close one- but we will not negotiate with terrorists. Looks like poor TANGLES is toast. Unless YOU people come through .... )

Fluffy Set Free!

Okay, you called my bluff. I wasn't going to shoot him, cute dog that he is. But, I'll shoot this Beanie Baby with that .44 Magnum unless you buy my book! I've got three of these things, all given to me by women. Of course females love these things, but I've got no problem with rubbing out Tangles. The clock's ticking!

Click HERE if you want to save Tangles from being turned into fluff.

posted by Bob Wallace , who DESERVES EVERYTHING WRITTEN ABOUT HIM.

Buy My Book or the Dog Dies! Update~

Fluffy held hostage! Day Two!

Okay, this picture isn't original with me. It's the most famous cover that National Lampoon ever ran. But it's an effective one, isn't it? So, buy my book, or the dog gets it!

Click HERE if you want to save cute little Fluffy.

posted by Bob Wallace , who DESERVES EVERYTHING WRITTEN ABOUT HIM.

Update ~ famous, big-time writer speaks:

Hi there.

I'm famous, big-time writer John Derbyshire, and this is my homepage. I may sell lots of books, but even I wouldn't have the nerve to hold a gun to an innocent dog's head to get you to buy any of my books. So Buy Bob Wallace's book here. You'll be glad you did!

NOT posted by John Derbyshire, but hey, at least we got his name right.

Now I'm Very, Very Annoyed

I know that Philip Roth has been in and out of mental institutions in his life. And he's been rather abusive to women. such as his ex-wife Claire Bloom. And maybe he's getting senile, too. I suppose his utter lack of character explains his latest novel, The Plot Against America. He not only slanders a great American like Charles Lindbergh, who might have made a great President, he slanders anything west of New York City. The Midwest? Populated by subhumans! He portrays FDR, a foul human being who unnecessarly got us into WWII in hopes of sharing the world with Stalin (whom he called "Uncle Joe") as a wonderful President. This book is Bizarro World stuff. Roth has gotten everything backwards and upside down. George Orwell would have loved it: Ignorance is Strength and Lies are Truth. This is possibly the most hate-filled novel I have ever read.

ZERO stars - blech, yech, gack!

posted by Bob Wallace , who DESERVES EVERYTHING WRITTEN ABOUT HIM.

Can't Drive Fifty-five!

Below: actual ticket for land speed record.

205 m.p.h. - WOOOOOOOSH!

Poor Mr. Stevens

I was such a big fan of Cat Stevens that one of the first albums I bought (yes, before CDs there were vinyl albums) was his Tea for the Tillerman. Then, of course, he did the music for the wonderfully odd cult classic, Harold and Maude. Then he wacked out and converted to the foul and most foreign psuedo-religion, Islam. A pity, because after he did he lost his talent completely.

Every Guy Understands This...

Okay, girls, guys are pretty simple. Sex, beer, sports..there ain't much else to us. But then, on the other hand, 90% of my brain isn't taken up by "shopping" and "talking" and"complaining about guys," so there! Hah!

posted by Bob Wallace , who DESERVES EVERYTHING WRITTEN ABOUT HIM.

Good riddance to bad Cats

Sixties peacenik turned orthodox islamic jihadist, err, uh - that's orthodox islamic "personal spiritual sojourner," the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens and now called Yusuf Islam has been denied entry to the United States. Let's hope it's permanent. The British should now kick his butt to the continent where he can ride his peace train to paradise in the Caliphate. That is, after his fundamentalist co-religionists behead or enslave what is left of the remaining infidels over there to establish the Caliphate in Eurabia - Praise Allah!

And, OOPS! guess we plumb forgot to put an amazon link to any X-Cat Stevens albums. Darn.

Hmmmm, how about this instead?

... or, perhaps:

Guess you will have to get your master's JIZYA somewhere else, Yusuf.

Of course, all of you enlightened TSC-iites will no doubt recognize and want to read the puerile dhimmitude in old Cat, err, ah - old Yusuf's own words, yourselves.

ROBO says, "Oh, The Horror!"

"You inhumanoid monsters! What have you done?"

posted by ROBO, editor who dreams of electric sheep ... and not a minute too soon by the look of things

Meet the new boss*

*same as the old boss.

Article from the Australian on the second string of vile jihadists emerging from the ashes. If you are a Rothbardbot,
just close your eyes, stuff your fingers in your ears and say,"NaaNaaNaaNaaNaaNaaNaaNaaNaaNaaaaaaa!!!!" and maybe all the Islamic jihadists will just POOF! vanish from the battlefields of the 100 or so wars on the planet that they started. Or maybe not .. .

Personally, we still think that Bert was the better choice as next in line for succession. After all, he's better looking, has a more calming demeanor, and his celebrity status gives him a recruiting advantage with the Hollywood, Che-chic leftists.

Sadly, internet red-diaper babies never learn ...

However, we proclaim TSC to be, happily,

Che-free!

'Tis the day to talk the talk, and walk the

... PLANK!

Happy "International" Talk Like a Pirate Day, Swabbies. Arrrrrrrrrrrrr!

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Jeanne now on Ivana*'s projected path

Oh joy- another whirly girl! Luckily we know all about Hurricane Preparedness 101, otherwise we'd have been treading water last night in the TSC Underground Parking and Publishing offices.

At least they got the sex right this time, Jeanne is a girl name- unless you are french, although every french name is a girl name ... maybe she really will follow this path. We'll wait and see:

* Yes that's right, Hurricane Ivana. Ivana with an "a" - that's not a typo. Hurricanes are supposed to be named after women. We are officially changing all their names back to the proper sex and we don't care what fools say differently. There.

And, this just in ...

Florida's new license plates are ready to ship!

{At least according to Beanface, who sent this plate in}

The weather isn't the only thing that is rather crappy

LOL!

Quest Fest '04 - update

Memo to all Editors @ Large:

We fed the information into her, and E.U.N.I.C.E says it's time to open File O-37

Okay, oKay I know y'all are as sick as dogs on wet grass about all the bad weather, and bad politics, and bad news, and bad excuses for entertainment available out there broadcasted in yo' face 24/7 ... let's ignore it all, and this week in the TSC Underground Cinema screen all 26 episodes of the first season of Jonny Quest. Yay!

So, get ready for pre-PC, pre-teen tevee at it's finest, now commercial free in digitally enhanced video with Hoyt Curtin's vibes in 6.1 Dolby.

Grab your P.F. Flyers,
diving gear, rocket belts, hydro-foils, flame throwers, robot eyes, invisible monsters, flying platforms, condors, submarines and para-power-ray guns, and come along..

Updates to follow... even if the diabolical Dr Zin's henchmen or a power-mad, rogue general
show up spoiling for world domination and looking for a fight.

posted by tom novak, editor who is really a Hanna - Barbera production

Not REBELS.

George Washington was a Rebel. Robert E. Lee was a Rebel. Yeah, they took a lot of seven-year olds as hostages and mass murdered them didn't they?

It's quite disturbing to read thinly veiled commentary by certain leftists and armchair anarchists politicizing the deliberate slaughter of school children, who have NO influence on what their government does, because said government is a bully that does evil things - "so they got what they deserved" - or so they infer.

No matter which Libertarian Cloud-Cuckoo Land you claim as home, it's should be clear to all that these acts are not being committed by rebels. PERIOD.

They aren't rebels.

Rebels don't leave their own borders to make war on children. There is no way to politically romanticise this savagery as any sort of "freedom fighting." To attempt is blatantly wrong and idiotic. The perpetrators of these acts, are simply evil.. They have repeatedly and starkly defined themselves as barbarous criminals hidden, cradled and bolstered in their outlawry by their co-religionists worldwide who've been duped by a false prophet's adherent's claim that his word superceeds natural rights, common law and first principles. Humbug! Enough is too much.

Three years after 9-11 and, finally, daily, in ways that even the most blinded can see clearly, The Black Heart of Islam is being unveiled layer by layer to reveal it's rotten core - Jihad.

Okay, fine. Makes it that much easier to drive a stake into it ....

Bizarro

Here is one of these surreal comic strips that TSC readers seem to enjoy. You people are sick! Get Help.

It's Dan Piraro's Bizarro

Kollapsing Kerry

Intellectuamal Pundits from the left and anti-war right are shocked that John Kerry is now faltering. After all, say they, mystified, he really was in combat in Viet Nam and Bush wasn't! Well, just to help out the journalists, and english lit majors and the economists, accountants, philosophers, history professsssssssors and lawyers who have trouble understanding this; the answer is ~ old J. F.'n K. has been shooting his mouth off too much. Three decades too much.

Reading this here might could clear it up for y'all.

Try Chapter Two: