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...reason he?s on the list because he?s supposed to be a shock jock. Here?s the bad news: he doesn?t shock anybody anymore. Thanks to Howard...this kind of sludge just washes over us. And that?s the danger. That?s the serious part of the book. I?m not the Church Lady. I don?t care what people say in private; I don?t care what they do in private. But we?re talking about the public arena...
Perhaps because he's in Austin, or because he's so mellow, or because he still looks like a postcollege mop-topped, ex-jock vegetarian from East Texas, or because other than School of Rock's $81 million box-office take, his movies don't make much money, people think of him as the official spokesman for the slacker generation. "I had my chance to do that, and my instinct was to back away. 'Kurt Cobain just died, do you want to go on ABC tonight?' No, I don't. I don't want to speak for my generation that...
Martin--no American test pilot should be allowed to look dissimilar to Roy Martin--unintentionally flatters his charge by asking him whether he was ever a fighter jock. Martin needs this information to guide his presentation. After all, one should never bore the experienced with a nuts-and-bolts primer. The visitor answers negatively, tugs a forelock and asks how fast the F-20 accelerates from zero to 60. (Two and one-half minutes after a cold start, the Tigershark is flying at 38,000 ft., 13 miles from its base, the plane's radar locked in on an intruder...
...Virtual Jock...
Wendel grew up in Kansas City, Mo., where he was nothing like the quintessentially nerdy mouse jockey you're probably picturing. He was actually kind of a jock: he played baseball, football, golf, hockey, tennis, whatever. But it was in video games that he stood out. "When I was 12 to 15 years old, I went to arcades a lot and played Mortal Kombat 2 religiously," he says. "I used to bet against other guys who thought they were the big dogs, and I usually took home about $50 a night. For a 13-year-old, that...