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1985.

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"hey, look at me and my sweet motorcycle, here in front of my cool truck..."



Jerk.

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Chuck

You were probably thinking that I had forgotten about taking over the world, huh?
Nobody said anything 'cause you though it might be for the best.

Well, sorry, still taking over the world here...
Just give me a bit, alright.



The framus reactor is on line at this point, which is a big help in the lab. The baboonbot research takes a lot of energy, more than I was able to mooch off the grid.

Until the baboonbots are operational, I needed some back up.
That is where Chuck comes in.
Chuck was a regular chimp, but he accidentally was exposed to some wacky radiation in the framus reactor.
Now he is strangely intelligent, articulate and dapper.
Fairly handy with the pistol, though a bit unbalanced.

I did some testing on Chuck, following the radiation exposure.
Not sure if I could easily replicate the effects for use in the baboonbots. I am just going to move forward with the circuit intelligence program for the bots.

Anyway, if you think about it, all of the great Bond super-villains had cool henchmen. It is part of the idiom.

So, now I have Chuck.

Outta the Way

We're trying to look at the Norton...

The Hot One

I assume that the hot one is some reference to Gene Romero's shoe or his ability to win races.

Not some bid for the repressed homosexual motorcycle consumer market.
Though he did ride for Triumph, and Triumph guys can be a little swishy.








Note the cool fade paint on the tank...and the big #1 plate.

Anybody can get some cool paint, but it takes some work to get that number plate.







And the 1,2,3 shot.
I think that is Gene with Dick Mann and Dave Aldana.

That is a god damned legends club right there...

Hold On Hold On

The most gentle place in my heart is for strangers...


That is a great f'n line, right there.


Cruel, honest and harsh.
Affectionately hollow.

Marianne Faithfull covers Neko Case and makes this song seem twice as rough, twice as cold.

Fuel for Friday

Good One

A nice prank on us, by the world leaders, the G20 Summit.
April Fools!
As if they didn't have enough fun at our expense, anyway.

How about we send 'em off for a little holiday in London.
Meet the Queen and Gordo, generate some protests or riots.




Even in this moment of epic economic up-endedness, I question the point of a $75,000,000.00 get together of world leaders.

There is nothing that they will talk about that haven't damned well been talking about for the past three months on the phone. The issues that they are in disagreement on will not be resolved with some glad-handing and photo-ops.

There will be some platitudes about collective ambition to fix problems and maybe get to the bottom of how greed drove us under.
A few thousand protestors will get to wave some banners in front of cameras.
A few hundred cops will, probably, get the chance to crack the skulls of a few dozen protestors.
Germany will continue to hold back on further stimulus spending.
Gordon Brown will go on with saying nationalist bullshit about jobs.
The EU will be forced to remind itself of the rules the EU established on trade, immigration and finance.
Russia is going to continue manipulate the energy market in Eastern Europe, in an effort to prop up it's currency.
Powerful party members in China will consolidate their grip on their global capitalist holdings, buy American debt and recess into greater secrecy.
Japan will go on with the resolute denial of it's mounting troubles.

But they will all get some face time with each other.
They will make some resolutions
We'll still be fucked.


Good one guys, you really got us with this one.

Have fun in London.

April Fools

Oh, I pity the fool that would try to play an April Fools day prank on Mr. T.

I am sure it would end badly.