tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post8280507768527698102..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Fuck Me, Rocket ManFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-79089189973122872272011-04-18T11:16:05.077-05:002011-04-18T11:16:05.077-05:00LILL: Hi!
STEF: Having eaten your amazing cooking...LILL: Hi!<br /><br />STEF: Having eaten your amazing cooking, that is quite a compliment. Thanks!<br />There's a cute line in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan where Kirk's love interest, a scientist, sees the dead planet she has brought to life and says,<br />"Can I cook or can I?"<br />(She can, but it doesn't keep well.)<br /><br />MARZ: You listen to it and tell me all about it. His "songs" are like Ceti eels to my ears.<br />(Actually, only his old ones, I liked his "Has Been" album.)<br /><br />ANNIKA & BINK:<br />Yes, I am 100% sure it was US censorship. <br />Not extreme censorship, like the Soviets covering up that three cosmonauts had tried and died before Gagarin, but the "let us conveniently ignore this" school of obfuscation.<br /><br />I only know about YG because of my interest in space (due to Star Trek)--I sure didn't learn about him when I was growing up in the 1960s.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-24926728686522601602011-04-14T16:09:15.822-05:002011-04-14T16:09:15.822-05:00Re: Annika. When I was a kid we'd all heard of...Re: Annika. When I was a kid we'd all heard of Sputnik and knew the Soviets got into space first...but there were no details and we didn't (that I can remember) study it. It was like secret knowledge kids passed around... same with Laika.<br /><br />When I was 7 I tried to check a kid's book titled something like "What is Communism?" out of the school library. The librarian wouldn't let me take the first time I tried... she must have thought I'd picked it up by accident and would be warped by it. I wanted to know about communism because adults talked about it. She did let me have it the second time I tried to check it out. Amazingly the book was quite fair and balanced and I came away thinking that communism in it's pure intellectual form sounded pretty good... as a kid I was all about sharing. I guess that's what the librarian feared... a child thinking for themselves!binknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-61301844873741704152011-04-14T14:34:33.565-05:002011-04-14T14:34:33.565-05:00My first reaction to your guests' ignorance ab...My first reaction to your guests' ignorance about Gagarin was "WHAT? How can ANYB..." but then the memory hit me of a children's book about science and technology I read about 160 times when I was little. It said the first living creature in space had been a monkey, when I knew for a fact that it was Laika, the dog, and it didn't mention either Gagarin or the Sputnik satellite. I used to wonder about that (which was healthy; I learnt that books don't necessarily tell you the truth), then I forgot. Only a couple of years ago it struck me that the book had been written and illustrated by an American in the 1970s. Now I instead wonder whether it was censorship - if the author, and other reasonably well-informed adults, knew that the Soviet Union had been ahead of the USA in the space race, but the publishing company didn't think that was something American children should know - or if the fact was indeed so hushed up in the USA that names like Gagarin and Sputnik were only mentioned in documents labelled TOP SECRET.Annikanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-1098488018297502032011-04-13T11:23:30.748-05:002011-04-13T11:23:30.748-05:00Bill just announced the line-up for his upcoming a...Bill just announced the line-up for his upcoming album <i>Seeking Major Tom</i>.<br /><br />It includes a second go at <i>Rocket Man</i>.<br /><br />I am hopeful.Marzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05258262409718943594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-8434570792461365582011-04-13T10:33:37.141-05:002011-04-13T10:33:37.141-05:00Grrrlll! You blog the way I cook! Frame within a ...Grrrlll! You blog the way I cook! Frame within a frame reference within a reference story within a story play within a play! I think your end results are consistently better, which is why I have not explored the blogosphere so much since finding your site. I feel nourished and lazy and sated after grazing here and ready to face all the lions and tigers and bears wherever with Kirkness and humor and wit and a reservoir of cultural mirrors. But, with physical food, I still don't mind checkin' out what others are cookin' up or puttin' together--"professionally" or hamishly.<br /><br />Carry On and Feed Our Souls!<br />In Love and Struggle!<br /><br />Stefalala<br /><br />P.s. veriword= WORDST Heh-heh!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-66896009647506893942011-04-12T19:57:16.006-05:002011-04-12T19:57:16.006-05:00Lots has happened in l'astronave since I'v...Lots has happened in l'astronave since I've had a chance to check last. Glad you are freed from the communications project. Always look forward to the burst of play that you emit when that happens.Lillnoreply@blogger.com