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| Some of the delicious pastry confections we will spread for your savor and delectation in JPT, Issue No. 7, ON THE ETHER WAVES TO YOU APRIL 23rd 2008!!! |
A straw drawn from our vast archives of classic personal essays, to remind you of bygone joys, broken jaws, blasting jazz, bewildering jive, blossoming jacaranda and other unnamable people, places and things.
a detailed plan for a new soul-withering magazine on all sorts of all sports, with hypothetical contents, expected editorials and anticipated sheaves of large color pix of bulging body parts, some of them relevant to athletics.
Brief histories of the most revolting of $$$-giveaway programs that once infested national broadcasting, in the days of crackly AM and a few gigantic clear-channel stations that excited all the amalgam fillings in your back teeth.
A decisive listing of all ye know and all ye need to know, in terms of great books easily obtainable from neighborhood libraries, Amazon.com or even a real bookstore marooned somewhere in a failing strip mall, past the Johnsonville cut-off.
Mangy movies now readily available on DVD, so you can replicate the sinking feeling once obtained only from viewing the upcoming title and credits for the second half of a cheap-theatre double feature on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
An excessively detailed chapter on neoclassical landscape and architecture from sleuth-singer Willis Quick’s The Process of Murder, featuring more prolix prose than pithy Poole.
Another long day’s journey into blight with a bite-sized wedge of Days of Wine and Seizures, when we find out for sure who put the dark into Dark Ages, as well as who put the bomp in the Bomp-De-Bomp-Bomp.
PLUS OTHER FEATURES, hand-drawn pix, gnus items too ephemeral to survive, artifacts found in dynamited surrealist exhibitions and tidal waves of Genuine Amerikana, by patriots too heart-wrung to acknowledge the stirring accolades given them by the White House, Congress and a Grateful Nation.
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