Comments on: Book Selection(s) of the Month: Mutants, Strings, Burners, the Singularity, and More http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/ Conservatism for punks. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:47:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Lefty http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1756 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:35:53 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1756 Action Park was the greatest. I'll always remember, on any given visit, the sea of humanity walking around covered in huge, red, bloody welts after wiping out on the alpine slide. We used to play a game where we'd go down the water slide one after the other, and then engage in hand-to-hand combat all the way down, trying to steal our opponent's mat from under him so he would be subjected to gruesome scrapes and bruises from the slide's joints. Wonderful memories. And there's a new and sanitized version of the park that still operates under the name Mountain Creek. Might be time for a nostalgic road trip. Action Park was the greatest. I’ll always remember, on any given visit, the sea of humanity walking around covered in huge, red, bloody welts after wiping out on the alpine slide. We used to play a game where we’d go down the water slide one after the other, and then engage in hand-to-hand combat all the way down, trying to steal our opponent’s mat from under him so he would be subjected to gruesome scrapes and bruises from the slide’s joints. Wonderful memories.

And there’s a new and sanitized version of the park that still operates under the name Mountain Creek. Might be time for a nostalgic road trip.

]]> by: Scott Nybakken http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1739 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:29:49 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1739 Sorry, that should read "clarification," not "correction." Sorry, that should read “clarification,” not “correction.”

]]> by: Scott Nybakken http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1738 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:28:27 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1738 A small correction -- the theme song to "The Loop" is *not* "Monkey Versus Robot"; it is the musically superior (to my mind) song "Hockey Monkey" (also by James Kochalka Superstar). You can hear it in all its glory at http://www.fox.com/theloop/. A small correction — the theme song to “The Loop” is *not* “Monkey Versus Robot”; it is the musically superior (to my mind) song “Hockey Monkey” (also by James Kochalka Superstar). You can hear it in all its glory at http://www.fox.com/theloop/.

]]> by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1734 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:21:09 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1734 Sorry, that's exactly how I think the neurons skewed around midnight -- corrected above now. Sorry, that’s exactly how I think the neurons skewed around midnight — corrected above now.

]]> by: Ken Silber http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1732 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:34:27 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/14/book-selections-of-the-month-mutants-strings-burners-the-singularity-and-more/#comment-1732 Ken Silberman? I think you're conflating me with the Nietzschean Superman, even though we're two different people. Ken Silberman? I think you’re conflating me with the Nietzschean Superman, even though we’re two different people.

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