Field Marshall Stack's New Writeups

Human Highway (thing)

2000-04-09T15:56:42Z

An awful, awful movie written by and starring Neil Young and Al from Quantum Leap. Featured DEVO as nuclear power plant technicians.

I can't really recall much of the plot, which isn't that much of a loss since there really wasn't one. Um, Neil Young, as Lionel Switch, was working at a diner, everything in the diner glowed bright red because of waste from the power plant where DEVO worked, there was an entirely unnecessary 20-minute long dream sequence after Neil hit himself on the head with a wrench, and then the world blew up. After everyone danced with shovels. That's the story. Not making this up.

The box says the movie's 80 minutes long, but I swear it seems to be at least five or six hours.

Black Sea (thing)

1999-11-13T09:44:32Z

Big ol' inland sea between Turkey and Russia/Ukraine. In the Avalon Hill board game Diplomacy, Russia and Turkey generally bounce here in Spring 1901, unless some sort of crazed Juggernaut opening is being used, or unless Turkey is a complete sucker. Which is more or less the same thing, now that I think about it.

Also the title of an album by pop band XTC.

slrn (thing)

1999-11-13T09:42:20Z

Just about the best newsreader out there. Can score on any header, so say you felt like killing X-Complaints-To: Talkway, Inc., you could do it. (why you'd kill on X-Complaints-To:, I don't know...)

number two (thing)

1999-11-13T09:21:40Z

The head warder (well, unless you count number 1) in The Village. Gets replaced every episode, although one of them appeared twice. Number 2's job is to make number 6 miserable, although most often it works the other way around.