Apr 26
Ryan Comments: After his third glass of whiskey, Cowboy Joe began to suspect his companion was a man dressed as a woman.
Published 1987
Ryan Comments: After his third glass of whiskey, Cowboy Joe began to suspect his companion was a man dressed as a woman.
Published 1987
April 26th, 2021 at 9:03 am
The couple on the podium in the background demonstrate that the Twist will be making a comeback in the 21st century.
April 26th, 2021 at 10:36 am
I believe you have happiness mixed up with inebriation. Or neckerchiefs.
April 26th, 2021 at 1:09 pm
It won’t kill you if you always leave some of it in the glass.
April 26th, 2021 at 4:06 pm
“Did you ever get the feeling someone was watching you?”
April 26th, 2021 at 5:21 pm
Don’t disrespect the neckerchief. Charlton Heston established it as a not too distant future trope in Soylent Green; reinforced by the character Fred “Fifi” Macaffee in the original Mad Max.
The dancing, however, is a cocaine fueled nightmare. A white line nightmare, if you will.
April 26th, 2021 at 5:39 pm
1985: Rachel Ward decides that Quentin Tarantino needs to be home in bed, because the last smart-alec teenager who laughed at the Hootenanny was never seen again.
April 26th, 2021 at 7:17 pm
“It’sh crazy. I keep trying to pick up theesh shilver dollars but I can’t get hold of them. It’sh like some kind of magic trick or shomthin’. They’re jus sittin’ there on the bar but you can’t pick them up! Maybe I just haven’t drunk enough of thish flat beer.”
“That’s ok, honey. Even if you can’t pick up the silver dollars, you can pick me up.”
“(hic) I’d rather have the shilver dollers.”
April 26th, 2021 at 9:33 pm
I suspect that what kills most people in this den of “happiness” is the complete lack of safety rails
April 26th, 2021 at 10:19 pm
Is the crowd at the back paying homage to the statues of The Glorious Martyrs of the People’s Frug Revolution?
@Francis, your thoughts on how they became Martyrs?
Nowadays the combo of blurb and art has a rather different meaning, more along the lines of “No social distancing and no masks? In a giant crowd? Picking up strangers while drunk? OF COURSE that’s going to kill you!”
April 27th, 2021 at 12:47 am
If you have the uber-cool name ‘Joe Faust’, why dilute it with ‘Clifford’ unless there’s another one writing books in the same idiom?
That idiom seems to be ‘near future dystopias set in sports bars’ https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=1325.
April 27th, 2021 at 12:56 am
@GSS ex-noob, Francis: beaten to death by a disgusted mob of clog-dancers with their wooden shoes?
@Tat Wood: I think you left out a digit.
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=13255
April 27th, 2021 at 3:42 am
@Tat
Not being familiar with the concept of sports bars I read that as ‘near future dystopias set in sports bras’ which would be slightly more interesting.
@GSS ex-noob, Bruce
Or beaten to death by a disgusted mob of pole-dancers for not understanding how poles work.
April 28th, 2021 at 1:11 am
Fell off a platform due to no safety rails, then beaten to death by the mob. Statue of Glorious Martyrs thus replicates the no-rails look.
@Tat: I think this one might be a large bar divided into different sections: the Glorious Martyrs Memorial Dance Floor (with giant screen of Euro-trash videos), and the sports bar where Cowboy Joe has met whiskey and “Rachel”.
May 6th, 2021 at 10:08 pm
I dare you to find a single detail in this cover that even remotely matches how we live now.
May 6th, 2021 at 11:47 pm
@ARY: Only the booze.
December 27th, 2021 at 10:27 pm
The two dancers in the back watched Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” video once too often….