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2021-06-14

by shaenon on June 14, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. David B Huber
    June 14, 2021, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Just because every time I try to predict the story line Shaenon and Jeff prove me wrong by being far more AWESOME, I think tomorrow will bring

    Panel 1: (Sweetheart, leaning forward) “By my calculations we’ll never reach Kansas in time!”
    Panel 2: (Baron, playing with the 8-track) “I wonder what this button does?”
    Panel 3: *LURCH!* as Mercury J. Buchanan tilts back to looks of consternation from Tip, Sweetheart and Baron.
    Panel 4: Exterior shot of Nick’s aircraft body swooping down in front of the van so it can roll up lowered ramp in best “Knight Rider” style, with voice balloon of Nick proclaiming “Not a problem.”

    • Robert Nowall
      June 14, 2021, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      To get to Kansas, click your heals and say “There’s no place like home.”

    • awgiedawgie
      June 14, 2021, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

      Not bad, but I’d see Nick saying something more like “Get in already, Melon Farmers!”

      • David B Huber
        June 14, 2021, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

        True.

  2. Rick
    June 14, 2021, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    There are only two controls, volume & next track. Only other thing is to insert the cartridge with a push to start, pull out the cartridge to stop. Simple as that, until the capstan roller gets dirty and snags the tape or the metal foil splice comes loose. Then you learn why 8-tracks didn’t stick around much past the seventies.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 14, 2021, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

      We had one with stop, play, and record buttons. We recorded our favorite tunes off the radio with it.

    • Dewy
      June 14, 2021, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

      Well, the size of the damn things didn’t help. We had a rack for them in the car. 8 of them took up the entire center console.

      • wizard4169
        September 14, 2021, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

        Which is what I remember any time I feel an urge towards nostalgia. I currently own literally hundreds of CD’s, plus music I’ve bought in purely digital form. And I keep absolutely all of it in my car on a flash drive the size of my thumbnail.

    • Robert Nowall
      June 14, 2021, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

      Well, I had (or my parents had, which for eighttracks amounted to the same thing) a copy of the “Hey Jude” album by The Beatles, and the sound quality wasn’t to be equaled on their releases till the big box set reissue of 2009. Also several doo-wop tracks in true stereo where the more recent rereleases seemed to lose the stereo masters. So eight-track was fine far as my adolescent self felt.

  3. David Simon
    June 14, 2021, 2:22 am | # | Reply

    8-track players do not have an eject button. If you see an eject button, it is NOT for the 8-track player!

  4. Robert Nowall
    June 14, 2021, 6:06 am | # | Reply

    Nice to see Vegas in the rear view mirror. Is that a song? Well, I couldn’t find it on Google, just a book…

  5. David B Huber
    June 14, 2021, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    Speaking of songs, any suggestions for a playlist of that 8-track?

    • Foradain
      June 15, 2021, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      Since the U.S. remake of a U.K. cop show allegedly set in 1973, I’ve been associating 8-tracks with David Bowie’s Life on Mars…

    • fractalwolf
      June 15, 2021, 1:46 pm | # | Reply

      Doesn’t all car media eventually transform into Best of Queens or something? (per Good Omens)

  6. Daibhid C
    June 14, 2021, 7:47 am | # | Reply

    With Scotland having their first game in the European Cup today, there was only one song I could filk…

    (If you don’t understand what this song has to do with Scotland being in the Euros, well, nor does anyone in Scotland.)

    No, Tip,
    This is no time for all your blubber,
    We’re burning rubber,
    And leaving Vegas in the dust.
    No, Tip,
    Don’t plan on giving up the steering,
    Alhough we’re veering,
    I stay in control of the bus.

    Ohhh…

    Yes, Tip,
    We should boogie,
    We’ve lost time we must regain,
    We should boogie,
    Boogie-woogie,
    Once again.
    Yes, Tip,
    We should boogie,
    Before things get more insane.
    We should boogie,
    Boogie-woogie,
    To Pavaaaaane.

  7. Robert Nowall
    June 14, 2021, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

    Well, if it was funny,
    He’d tell you what I know.
    Baron got crosstown with a Mercury to go.
    Crazy with a Mercury.
    Man, it’s crazy with a Mercury.
    Buchanan J’s a Mercury and headed right on down the road.

    Well, the girl Nick loves
    Got taken by these guys.
    He used powers took her back his prize.
    They’re riding in a Mercury.
    They’re crazy with a Mercury.
    Buchanan J’s a Mercury and headed right on down the road.

    Hey, now, fellas,
    Let’s let him rip.
    Driven out with your Mercury but with Tip.
    Crazy with a Mercury.
    They’re crazy with a Mercury.
    Buchanan J’s a Mercury and headed right on down the road.

    Symbol says “Mercedes,”
    Peace sign up front.
    He calls himself a Mercury, Buchanan’s a nut.
    He really is a Mercury.
    Yeah, they’re crazy with a Mercury.
    Buchanan J’s a Mercury and headed right on down the road.

    —from “Mercury Blues,” written by K. C. Douglas and Robert Geddins, sung (most recently) by Alan Jackson.

  8. Pygar
    June 14, 2021, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

    “Bodine Brown”, “Bertha Butt Boogie”, “Cow Patty”, “Grooviest Grubworm in the World”, “The Streak”, and other such classics…

  9. Pygar
    June 14, 2021, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

    This was meant for the soundtrack question above…

  10. Shadowmehr
    June 14, 2021, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

    Let’s see now, blue hair, can’t see over the steering wheel, drives like crazy . . .

    The Baron is officially driving like someone’s grandma.

  11. Robert Nowall
    June 14, 2021, 10:02 pm | # | Reply

    Improvements like eight-tracks and such, but issues of fears rise up much. Less talk and less blubber while the road hits the rubber, but can Baron M. work the clutch?

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