Comments on: First lines http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:14:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daryl Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26752 Daryl Scroggins Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:16:14 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26752 Coop, do you remember that show "Then Came Bronson"? I watched every episode. But my opinion of it was damaged when some of the older guys I worked with in construction jobs--bikers from way back--started to joke about the show. In one episode Michael Parks takes a wrong turn on his Harley Sportster, out in the wilderness, and ends up crashing down a cliff. He spends the whole show trying to fix his bike enough to get it back up to the road, his frustration generating a wide range of emotions in him. So the next day one of my co-workers--Donny--who had built a number of fine motorcycles, was rolling up extension cords so we could go home, and I asked him if he had seen the latest "Then Came Bronson" episode. "Yeah," he said. "Now I'm going to go home and fix my bike with a fucking rock and cry the whole time." That kind of took something out of it for me from then on. Coop, do you remember that show “Then Came Bronson”? I watched every episode. But my opinion of it was damaged when some of the older guys I worked with in construction jobs–bikers from way back–started to joke about the show. In one episode Michael Parks takes a wrong turn on his Harley Sportster, out in the wilderness, and ends up crashing down a cliff. He spends the whole show trying to fix his bike enough to get it back up to the road, his frustration generating a wide range of emotions in him. So the next day one of my co-workers–Donny–who had built a number of fine motorcycles, was rolling up extension cords so we could go home, and I asked him if he had seen the latest “Then Came Bronson” episode. “Yeah,” he said. “Now I’m going to go home and fix my bike with a fucking rock and cry the whole time.” That kind of took something out of it for me from then on.

]]> By: Cindy Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26515 Cindy Scroggins Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:09:41 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26515 This is the most fucked up comment string I've ever seen. This is the most fucked up comment string I’ve ever seen.

]]> By: Rick Neece http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26514 Rick Neece Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:07:07 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26514 So utterly fucked. So utterly fucked.

]]> By: Cooper Renner http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26509 Cooper Renner Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:55:49 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26509 Michael Parks! "Then Came Bronson"? Hehehe. You mean I just shared an electrical impulse with Rod Serling? Michael Parks! “Then Came Bronson”? Hehehe. You mean I just shared an electrical impulse with Rod Serling?

]]> By: Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26493 Sheila Ryan Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:36:50 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26493 I thought about something India once said to me, "It’s a terrible curse to know the future." I thought about something India once said to me, “It’s a terrible curse to know the future.”

]]> By: Daryl Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26490 Daryl Scroggins Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:28:25 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26490 + Right at that moment a squirrel climbed my leg and snatched the stigmata cookie from my hand. I tried to get my pistol out but only managed to shoot myself in the groin. I looked up at the sky. Too late to think that Luck had anything to do with this. + Right at that moment a squirrel climbed my leg and snatched the stigmata cookie from my hand. I tried to get my pistol out but only managed to shoot myself in the groin. I looked up at the sky. Too late to think that Luck had anything to do with this.

]]> By: Vagrant Thinker http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26489 Vagrant Thinker Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:27:18 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26489 + In my mind I had the image of a smallish furry animal, a little like a rat without the hard exoskeleton, but for the life of me, I couldn't remember exactly what a squirrel looked like. +

In my mind I had the image of a smallish furry animal, a little like a rat without the hard exoskeleton, but for the life of me, I couldn’t remember exactly what a squirrel looked like.

]]> By: Daryl Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26480 Daryl Scroggins Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:23:32 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26480 <i>I went to the funeral the hard way, trapped inside the coffin with the dead man.</i> Coop-- Twilight Zone / episode starring Michael Parks (I think). Guy works in a prison with an old man (civilian) who makes coffins for dead inmates. He gets the old man to agree that when a person next dies, the guy will slip into the coffin, the old man will bury him in the cemetary outside the walls, then come back at night and dig him up. That happens--except the guy is burried in the coffin, wondering when he will be dug up, and he strikes a match to look at his watch. That's when he sees that the person he is burried with is the old man who was supposed to come and dig him up. I went to the funeral the hard way, trapped inside the coffin with the dead man.

Coop– Twilight Zone / episode starring Michael Parks (I think). Guy works in a prison with an old man (civilian) who makes coffins for dead inmates. He gets the old man to agree that when a person next dies, the guy will slip into the coffin, the old man will bury him in the cemetary outside the walls, then come back at night and dig him up. That happens–except the guy is burried in the coffin, wondering when he will be dug up, and he strikes a match to look at his watch. That’s when he sees that the person he is burried with is the old man who was supposed to come and dig him up.

]]> By: Cindy Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26477 Cindy Scroggins Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:19:21 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26477 + Jesús looked into my eyes. "Save the squirrels," he said. "<i>Salve las ardillas</i>." +
Jesús looked into my eyes. “Save the squirrels,” he said. “Salve las ardillas.”

]]> By: Cooper Renner http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html/comment-page-1#comment-26474 Cooper Renner Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:13:44 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/03/first-lines.html#comment-26474 I went to the funeral the hard way, trapped inside the coffin with the dead man. I went to the funeral the hard way, trapped inside the coffin with the dead man.

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