I'm reading Live from New York, the Sat. Night Live book by Tom Shales, and I'm loving finding out all these new facts.
Good ol' Al Franken... he had some political run-ins even back then, almost thirty years before his new gig as a radio political guy:
Al Franken-- I heard Spiro Agnew was going to be on Tom Snyder's show, so I just wanted to meet him and harass him a little bit. I brought a tape recorder and went down to their studios on six [the sixth floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza]. Agnew was in the makeup room, so I sat down in the next makeup chair as he was getting made up and I said something like, "You called student protesters 'bums,' and aren't you the bum because you took money?" And he just said, "I never called them bums. That was Nixon."...
I thought I'd pressed the button to start the tape recorder, but I hadn't. I'd had it on and turned it off or something, so I didn't get it on tape. And then I also felt stupid because I checked it out and I was wrong-- Nixon had called students bums. At least I did get to say to Agnew that he was a bum.
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this one sounds apocryphal... but I love it!:
Tom Davis-- One day Henry Kissinger calls up, and the call is picked up at an NBC page's desk, and the page goes, "Henry Kissinger is on the phone. He wants tickets for his son." And Al grabs the phone and yells into it, "You know, if it hadn't been for the Christmas bombing in Cambodia, you could've had your fucking tickets!"
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edit PS 7/10/04-- I went to see Napoleon Dynamite again last night. Also, it's ridiculous how addicted I am to this site!! I don't even go on the Boards hardly, or look at new Sets ever, and yet I'm on all the time at work now, and here I am at home... it's Saturday morning, I should be cleaning or buying something or exercising or planning... things... I am out of control (not to be confused with NoControl)!!!
Good ol' Al Franken... he had some political run-ins even back then, almost thirty years before his new gig as a radio political guy:
Al Franken-- I heard Spiro Agnew was going to be on Tom Snyder's show, so I just wanted to meet him and harass him a little bit. I brought a tape recorder and went down to their studios on six [the sixth floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza]. Agnew was in the makeup room, so I sat down in the next makeup chair as he was getting made up and I said something like, "You called student protesters 'bums,' and aren't you the bum because you took money?" And he just said, "I never called them bums. That was Nixon."...
I thought I'd pressed the button to start the tape recorder, but I hadn't. I'd had it on and turned it off or something, so I didn't get it on tape. And then I also felt stupid because I checked it out and I was wrong-- Nixon had called students bums. At least I did get to say to Agnew that he was a bum.
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this one sounds apocryphal... but I love it!:
Tom Davis-- One day Henry Kissinger calls up, and the call is picked up at an NBC page's desk, and the page goes, "Henry Kissinger is on the phone. He wants tickets for his son." And Al grabs the phone and yells into it, "You know, if it hadn't been for the Christmas bombing in Cambodia, you could've had your fucking tickets!"
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edit PS 7/10/04-- I went to see Napoleon Dynamite again last night. Also, it's ridiculous how addicted I am to this site!! I don't even go on the Boards hardly, or look at new Sets ever, and yet I'm on all the time at work now, and here I am at home... it's Saturday morning, I should be cleaning or buying something or exercising or planning... things... I am out of control (not to be confused with NoControl)!!!
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youre not on the boards or into the photosets?
where do you go when you are here for uncounted hours?
where is your secret hiding place on this site?
(i honestly don't expect you to reveal your secrets to me just asking in a rhetorical/symbolic way)
i know there are some strange secret places here off the well-beaten path if one is sufficiently determined and has the time to uncover them buried beneath the enourmous mass of the common and predictable
i am lost to the universe of the internet with a voracious reality habit that i can barely break away from long enough to respond to the rare comment in my journal that periodically seems to coalesce in the rare ether like an odd spontaneous generation
do you like the cure?
im stuck in that 20th century culture of 1987 and kiss me kiss me kiss me
why does that era remain so significant?
it has something to do with george orwell's novel 1984 im certain of that
it's all about forbidden passions(thoughtcrime and sexcrime)
talking newspeak right now!
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