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The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily released in 2013
The children and grandchildren of those who'd emigrated years before, that my father would promptly immortalize with his super 8.
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Hey All, Wass 'Appenin'?
NOW you can check out my new WAWTC Interview with Patrice 'Candy' Zappa (YouTube version - with a nifty photo slide-show)! ~~> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXRY9CghoX0
@negative @Ferg @RStreetSweeper @onan @philo @Saint_Kaosmic_BobKat @mazigazi @samatari @ChasingGhosts @RevVeggieSpam @thomas_klopf @Unca @JStep @kilroy_was_here @hobbs @boogerly @LapsusChao @BestPreston @reverendrobodummy @AleisterGiovanni
#radio #interviews #frankzappa #patricezappa #candyzappa #slackradio #wawtc
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💫🪐 FIND OUT WASS 'APPENIN'! 🪐💫
Tune in THIS SATURDAY at 9PM EST for AN ALL NEW WAWTC - "PATRICE 'CANDY' ZAPPA AND ME" INTERVIEW!!! LISTEN HERE 👉 https://slackradio.org@Ferg @RStreetSweeper @onan @philo @Saint_Kaosmic_BobKat @mazigazi @samatari @ChasingGhosts @RevVeggieSpam @thomas_klopf @Unca @JStep @kilroy_was_here @hobbs @boogerly @LapsusChao @BestPreston @reverendrobodummy
#radio #frankzappa #zappaandme #patricezappa #candyzappa #frankzappafans #zappakrappa #interviews #slackradio #wawtc
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💫🪐 FIND OUT WASS 'APPENIN'! 🪐💫
Tune in THIS SATURDAY at 9PM EST for a NEW WAWTC - IKE WILLIS TRiBuTaSHuM!
LISTEN HERE 👉 https://slackradio.org@Ferg @RStreetSweeper @onan @philo @Saint_Kaosmic_BobKat @mazigazi @samatari @ChasingGhosts @RevVeggieSpam @thomas_klopf @Unca @JStep @kilroy_was_here @hobbs @boogerly @LapsusChao @BestPreston @reverendrobodummy
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Saraf's dark, curly hair and Van Dycke style beard reminds me a bit of old black & white photos of Frank Zappa. Anyone else? No? Historical pulls unwelcome? 😬 🎸 🏀 ⚫️⚪️ #NBA #BrooklynNets #NetsWorld #BenSaraf #NBASeasonOpeners #FrankZappa
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Mark Volman, of Turtles ‘Happy Together’ fame, dies at 78
Mark Volman, the singer who co-founded the buoyant 1960s hitmakers the Turtles and was half of the humorous…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #duo #eddie #favor #favoriteband #flo #FrankZappa #Group #happytogether #howardkaylan #label #MarkVolman #ownname #right #Turtles #whitewhale
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Frank Zappa Visits WKLS 96 Rock Atlanta
ATLANTA - October 25: Singer/Songwriter Frank Zappa plays DJ for a day at WKLS 96 Rock in Atlanta Georgia. October 25, 1981 (Photo By Rick Diamond/Getty Images) -
💫🪐 FIND OUT WASS 'APPENIN'! 🪐💫
Tune in THIS SATURDAY at 9PM EST for WAWTC -
FRANK ZAPPA GUITAR SOLOS!
LISTEN HERE 👉 https://slackradio.org#radio #frankzappa #guitar #rock #slackrock #slackmusic #slackradio #wawtc
@Ferg @RStreetSweeper @onan @philo @Saint_Kaosmic_BobKat @mazigazi @samatari @minimallysimple
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA Plays "Eruption" On Guitar Given To Him By EDDIE VAN HALEN (Video)May include AI-generated or third-party content.
#DweezilZappa #EddieVanHalen #Eruption #Guitar #RickBeato #FrankZappa
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Producer / Songwriter RICK BEATO Shares New Video Interview - "What DWEEZIL ZAPPA Learned From EDDIE VAN HALEN" -
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DEEP PURPLE's ROGER GLOVER Says Decision To Enlist DWEEZIL ZAPPA To Remix 'Machine Head' Was 'Probably A Marketing' Idea#RogerGlover #DweezilZappa #DeepPurple #MachineHead #SuperDeluxeEdition #Remix #MontreuxJazzFestival #FrankZappa #QuadraphonicMix #DolbyAtmos
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Today In Metal History 🤘 December 21st, 2023🤘 FRANK ZAPPA, INTO ETERNITY, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, THE WHO
TALENT WE LOST R.I.P. FRANK Vincent ZAPPA: 1940 - 1993 (aged 52) R.I.P. Robert “Rob” Doherty (INTO ETERNITY, FINAL DARKNESS) - 1970 - 2012 (aged 41) HEAVY BIRTHDAYS Happy 52nd Brett Allen Scallions (FUEL, WORLD FIRE BRIGADE) - 1971 HEAVY...