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...pick-up line: I think we have to make love on the front lawn likec razed weasels NOW!! I’ve never actually used that one but I asked my friend for a good one and that’s what he came up with . i feel that pickup line is really going to take off at Harvard. You’re welcome. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I think that’s what Jesus would do. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: backstreet’s back alright...
...weekends, it's fight time. Throughout the country, galleros - as folks who raise and fight roosters are known - bring their avian warriors to their neighborhood cockfighting arena. The wealthier galleros show up in pickup trucks and SUVs, carrying their roosters in wooden travel cases. The poorer ones show up on bicycle or by bus, carrying their birds in a plastic bag. After the weigh-in, the birds get razorblades strapped to their feet, the bets are cast, the beers are popped, and the fights begin...
...while R.G. Springsteen’s “Red Menace” (1949) may be the work of a true anti-communist believer, Hoberman argues that “Pickup on South St.” (Samuel Fuller, 1953), which features communist spies and a McCarthyite hero who is also a criminal, “seems like it might be one of the anti-communist movies but is actually much crazier...
...Soon Coyne is out of his house and on the road with his girlfriend, Georgia, racing the ghost (who drives a phantom pickup) south in search of the woman who sold it to him in the first place. There are quite a few artfully scary supernatural manifestations along the way - at various points the ghost takes control of the car radio, of a Ouija board, of other drivers, and even of the electronic voicebox of a stranger in a restaurant who's had a laryngectomy...
...Cage correct in considering a 1957 Ford pickup a work of art? Am I right in holding a 1953 Mad comic (#5, of course) in the same esteem? Or are we both merely venerating, financially and artistically, the tastes of our youths that we are too stubborn or eternally adolescent to outgrow...