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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
01/30/09

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I read a short story, the main character/narrator worked at a New Age bookstore in Colorado, and her boss, an elderly Southern man was... certainly at LEAST an avatar of EP.
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bonniegrrl
01/30/09

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Meh. I still think he's alive and well.

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BullfightsOnAcid
01/30/09

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I'm glad you included Elvissey by Jack Womack. The plot sounds like it would be a humor based novel but it is in fact an intense trip into a future where society has been pushed to extremes. Womack creates a future linguistic style that makes this story not about the future but in fact from the future. I highly recommend any of his books from the Dryco Series.
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NerD: Blattella
01/30/09

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I'm sorry to say, but I thought Bubba Ho-Tep was a piece of garbage. And this is coming from a long time Bruce Campbell fan, and someone whose alarm music in the morning for 3 years was Elvis's Blue Hawaii.
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Hamslicer
01/30/09

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Didn't he make a cameo in "Death Becomes Her"?
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NerD: Blattella
01/30/09

@Hamslicer: No, you are thinking of Jim Morrison.
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Dunny0
01/30/09

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I don't know why, but when I read the headline and saw the picture... For a moment I thought this was an article proclaiming Bruce Campbell death... and I panicked a little.

It's very interesting just how obsessed people still are with Elvis. I'm hard pressed to think of any other celebrities that have his longevity - so to speak.
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Elizabeth Weinbloom
01/30/09

@Dunny0: Marilyn Monroe. For similar reasons. I also may or may not have taken a college course on 1950s culture that featured a two week unit on Elvis and a two week unit on Marilyn.

Next Triviagasm: A list of uses of the Marilyn Monrobot pun in scifi.
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bluehinter
01/30/09

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Wow! You mentioned every single sci-fi Elvis reference in my repetoir, including Barry the Time Sprout! Well done!
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