Daily Archives: October 18, 2006

Age of irony…

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 18, 2006

Charles Starkweather and the freshly kindled space race shared the news in the fall of 1957. Sputnik went up in October, Vanguard crashed and burned in December and the Charles Starkweather’s killing spree pushed the space competition out of the headlines for a while, distracting us from the cold war angst we felt with a [...]

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monetize this, muthah…

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 18, 2006

Okay bmo, do me a favor and sit through both of these tiresome boring and simple-minded presentations. Now consider the financial support model… anything wrong? anything right? http://amandacongdon.com/roadblog/2006/10/18/chuck-olsen-is-cool/ http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/10/101806.html (I like “micro-duckie sponsorship” better myself — I mean, holy-moly, ze made two thousand simoleons on his first try with that scam! — but then that [...]

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But I’m a guy and I don’t cry…

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 18, 2006

So why, I wonder, did I get so teared up over Joy’s write-up of her daughter Jory’s marriage this weekend?

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Dove

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 18, 2006

(h/t to Denise)

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