When the hero of John Carpenter’s 1988 They Live puts on a pair of weird sunglasses that he has stumbled upon in an abandoned church, he notices a billboard that once invited us to a Hawaii beach holiday now simply displays the words: “MARRY AND REPRODUCE.” Ad copy on another billboard — this one for a new color TV — says,… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesClearly “Through the Glasses Darlky” is my kind of article:
I give a number of presentations under the title -HAPPINESS IS GETTING BEYOND BULLSHIT!
1. Food Safety: Getting Beyond Bullshit und Ueberbullshit!
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THAT THAT IS IS.
THAT THAT IS NOT IS NOT.
BUT WE KNOW NOT WHAT IS AND WHAT IS NOT
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