[UA] Re: Everything I needed to know about UA, I learned from mainstream media.
David Masad
dpaymas at yahoo.com
Sat May 15 13:15:37 PDT 2004
Funny, I was just thinking of posting something
similar. The New Yorker is full of UA goodness, I've
noticed, especially strange bits of urban folklore and
characters just begging to be GMC-ized...
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> From: Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com>
> To: ua at lists.unknown-armies.com
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 07:45:35 -0500
> Subject: [UA] Everything I needed to know about UA,
> I learned from
> mainstream media.
>
> 1) If you can find the New Yorker that has the
> article about K., the former
> Rhodesian soldier? Read that. He describes blowing
> a stress check AND
> changing his obsession. Plus that shit about "we
> could see you the whole
> time" is pretty creepy, not to mention... the other
> bit...
>
> 2) Another recent New Yorker article was a profile
> of a Manhattan divorce
> attorney who was the first to be paid $100,000 for a
> divorce case AND the
> first to be paid $1 million for a divorce case. The
> UA bit? He only
> sleeps 4-5 hours a night. "I have nightmares,
> terrible nightmares. You
> know those William Blake etchings? It's always
> them, every night."
>
> 3) The Chicago Tribune recently ran an interview
> with George Romero, who
> heaped praise upon Fred Rodgers. "My first job was
> working on 'Mr. Rogers
> Neighborhood,' I did those little features like 'How
> A Lightbulb Is Made.'
> I once shot a film of Fred Rodgers tonsillectomy.
> It's the scariest movie
> I ever made."
>
> -G.
>
> "Lust and vengeance never tasted so sweet and
> non-threatening."
> -Polly Esther
>
=====
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain:
either you will reach a point higher up today, or you
will be training your powers so that you will be able
to climb higher tomorrow.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
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