May 23
Good Show Sir comments: Sorry about that. Had to let the intern go. Too many questions about “salary” and “benefits” and “business licences”.
So we’re back after a personal bank holiday. Let’s start off with something terrible enough to make Dali question his life choices.
Published 1973
(Average: 7.50 out of 10)
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May 23rd, 2023 at 8:49 am
Certainly appears to be trippin.’ It being 1973, there’s a good chance the artist was as well.
May 23rd, 2023 at 10:23 am
In 1973, the pool of hippie readers who were still conscious enough to read a skiffy book was drying up fast.
May 23rd, 2023 at 12:41 pm
If you read this book backwards it’ll say Paul is dead.
May 23rd, 2023 at 2:16 pm
Is there a hashtag for “Oh god! My eyes!”
May 23rd, 2023 at 2:55 pm
I thought the Moon was made of green cheese, not gruyere. But quite how Leonard Cohen got embroiled in this mess is a story I would like to hear.
May 23rd, 2023 at 4:43 pm
Nobody will ever do a cover of this song.
@fred—GSS!
May 23rd, 2023 at 9:21 pm
To the moon, Al Pacino! To the moooon!
May 23rd, 2023 at 10:11 pm
AAAAAHHHHH! MY EYES!
That makes up for the reruns all at once, doesn’t it? I swear I can *hear* this cover, even without the drugs everyone involved was on.
I’m not sure what the green planet is supposed to be — is it where the tripper is from? As @Tat pointed out, the moon’s the lower one, considering the cheese. If it’s the Wallace and Gromit moon, all cheeses are possible. Has he come to steal our women and our solid dairy products?
@Bruce: *squints at pic* *checks date* I think that’s meant to be Al. They wanted him, but couldn’t afford him after “The Godfather”, so they had to go with Cohen. Who probably liked the babes but wasn’t so keen on his head being covered with melted cheese.
May 24th, 2023 at 2:18 am
When Stranger in a Strange Land (61) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (62) get together and have a hippie lovechild… wasn’t sure what to make of the cover so I read the book synopsis. Sorta matches, I guess?
This could have been used as the groovy cover for a Farley Mowat northwest Canadian woods coming of age story, but I’m also seeing an uncanny resemblance to Rick Springfield, and a certain earworm is coming to mind… apologies to all!
May 24th, 2023 at 4:10 am
That is the most anti-climactic taglines I have ever seen: “an alien trapped in an alien world.”
What’s next? “A dog trapped in a dog’s body.”
“Howard the Duck: trapped in a world he never left in the first place.”
@Emster: Farley Mowat must have brewed his tea with the wrong lichen off the river stones in the Mackenzie to get a cover as wavy-gravy as that! You blew my mind with that idea!
@fred: GSS! Or rather, !SSG.