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...wrote to amuse ourselves," Leiber says. It shows in the manic energy and irrepressible good humor of their music. It's still hard not to laugh at the comic turns they wrote for the Coasters, such as Charlie Brown and Love Potion No. 9. Such story songs as Along Came Jones and Young Blood were inspired by Leiber's love of radio series like The Shadow. Their subjects ranged from knife fights and no-accounts to class clowns and the clap. That last can be found in what Leiber calls the "snide innuendo" of their hilarious Poison...
...meeting while sitting on the toilet with all the abandon of a two-year-old. The positioning was Wright's inspired idea, though it was not his idea to have a rude noise on the soundtrack while he's sitting there. "When I saw it, it got a big laugh," he says, "and that's not what the scene's about...
Could Bill Gates still have the last laugh? Microsoft's boss reportedly boasted to Intel employees back in 1995 that "this antitrust thing will blow over." Those words have echoed hollowly on each of the Judgment Days since, as Microsoft steadily descended into Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's three circles of hell--branded a monopoly, found in violation of antitrust law and, finally, last week ordered to perform self-dismemberment. But Gates has at least one, and more likely two, lives left in this game--one if the U.S. Supreme Court takes the case immediately, as the Justice Department...
After that we grew quite close, drawn together by a common mode of conversation, the same general appreciation of comic nonsense (though sometimes he would issue a cold, dry laugh at something that seemed absolutely sensible to me), and by some unspoken sense of sadness. We circumvented the subject of politics whenever possible. He was appalled by my liberalism; I was enraged by his approval of Nixon and the Vietnam...
...last Tuesday, as I finished a lovely still life of Liquid Paper and Rubber Band Ball, I missed Jovon. He's nonchalant, slick, adored by his female classmates and doesn't have to resort to impugning his own manhood to make people laugh. I guess I liked hanging out with him because he's all the things I wish I was. Though I'd miss him a lot more if he were just like...