IAN GALLAGHER + his journey with bipolar disorder

╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher

GG: i think you are projecting your own attitude on to others […] GG: rose just sent me a code for a crystal ball, shes my friend and is basically the best! […] CA: its probably a trap i wwouldnt trust her CA: she is a cunnin and treacherous sort trust me i knoww her type GG: wait do you have a thing for her too??? GG: did she reject you or something?

Annihilate him, Jade. This would be a good time to unleash that rage you've been cultivating.

CA: all of her FRAUDULENT MAGICS cannot come close to posin threat to my mastery ovver the TRUEST SCIENCES CA: an wwith my empiricists wwand i servve as the righteous hope that wwill incinerate delusion and the deluded alike

This dude's on some Methods of Rationality type shit.

I'm not sure why Eridan is on a crusade against magic. He's been insisting it was fake since his original introduction page, and it's pretty clear he has some sort of complex about it. Is there some unseen history here that we're not yet privy to?

GG: wow what are you talking about CA: so really you should be honored to inherit my old callin CA: both my armaments and my feud

To be fair to Eridan, he is accomplishing something useful here, even if it's by accident. Jade needs to get that rifle in her pen-pal's hands in order to fulfil the Endgame Bunny's time loop.

Recalling Eridan’s introduction reminds me that this is one of the most powerful riflekind weapons in existence. This should imply that top-tier weapons cost tens of millions of grist...

...but we just saw a weapon that costs much, much more.

Maybe the Proton Cannon has the same damage as the Crosshairs, but it also has an incredibly broken non-combat use.

GG: i have seen this before […] GG: i am very sure its the same rifle included with johns present […] CA: probably a cheap imitation of the original […] GG: i did not provide the weapons! GG: my penpal did […] GG: we worked on it together but he supplied the bunnys weapons GG: im pretty sure hes from the future! CA: wwhy GG: because he said hes my grandson

Really?

I suppose being raised by a Sburb veteran would explain why he uses terms like 'boonbuck' in casual speech - but almost nothing else makes sense when viewed through this lens.

If Pen-Pal is Jade's grandson, then he should be from decades in the future - presumably long after the game has ended. This doesn't sound like a problem, until you remember some of the references he made.

As much as it pains me to admit it, the Earth is probably gone for good - which means that any descendants of our Players will be raised somewhere else. Why would someone presumably raised in a completely different universe be so familiar with Earth's culture?

You could argue that he picked up his love of Earth movies from one of the surviving Earthlings, such as adult John - although that raises its own issues, because PP talks to John like he's never met him before. Maybe he died young, and passed his love of movies to PP posthumously - but as you can see, we're really having to stretch things to make this make sense.

Plus, there's an even bigger problem - namely, his 1920s 'accent'. None of the surviving Earthlings have it, and it's not like he just developed it spontaneously. If he was raised by Jade or her child, why does he talk like her grandfather would?

See, I'm still sure that PP is connected directly to Grandpa, and may well be the man himself - which means either PP is lying, or there's something more complicated going on here.

We don't know anything about Grandpa's life after he fled the Crocker household. If he was somehow raised by an adult, post-Sburb Jade, then he could consider her his grandmother, while still talking and acting like the Grandpa Harley we know. Plus, it would explain why he acts like he's from the past, but knows about the future. He already has a history of time travelling - maybe he's been doing it since he was a kid.

Similar to my old theory about Spades Slick, this one is a little too convoluted to be 100% true - but still I think there's something to this idea. Being raised by Jade would neatly explain where he got the bunny's weapons...

Ugh, I don't know! This Pen-Pal really is the biggest curveball this comic has thrown at me. I need to think it over some more.

Garbo posed in 1951 for London society photographer, Antony Beauchamp. The result were several stunning color portraits, shot in California. In his posthumously published memoirs Beauchamp recounted that it was Garbo's pal, Harry Crocker, who made the introduction, but it is likely that another friend exerted substantial influence–Beauchamp's father-in-law, Winston Churchill.

Photographer and actress met in the spring of 1951 and Garbo agreed to be photographed perhaps in part because Beauchamp wanted to work in color, which would have been a novelty, and perhaps because it was time for new work to be dangled before the public. Several meetings took place before Garbo relaxed enough to let Beauchamp set up his camera. She tired of the process quickly, however, and in the end only five negatives were exposed. One of these pictures appeared on the cover of the famous magazine McCall's, in June 1951. (x)

Gideon the Ninth Appendices (continued)

Cohort Intelligence Files

Oh, these are written by Judith!

Wow, she and Marta joined the Cohort when they were literal children - eleven and ten, respectively. I guess it's somewhat common to burden little kids with responsibilities early amongst the Nine Houses?

On Naberius Tern:

He also has an extremely good opinion of himself and his swordplay, an opinion that Lt. Dyas notes occasionally aligns with reality.

Oh I love the subtle shade here. I'm also noting that Coronabeth's charisma seems to dazzle even Judith Deuteros as she is writing this, since she doesn't know about her or Ianthe's necromantic prowess - yes they were homeschooled, but knowing that necromancers are usually frail, wouldn't you wonder whether Ianthe is more necromantically apt, quietly, from her sister's shadow?

I guess not.

On Isaac Tettares:

the eldest of eight. [...] Father killed by terrorists out on [REDACTED] nineteen years ago: all of his children have been posthumous and the title held in stewardship.

Interesting! Also the bit about how kids can be born either of XX-carrier or vat-womb. Reproduction sure has advanced a great deal (as has the disconnection of sex from gender, apparently - which I've noticed before, but is obvious enough here to comment on it!)

Anyway, as we learned in Harrow the Ninth, the father does not have to be physically present for a child to get their genetic material. All you need is said genetic material. If you're in an important position in your House, presumably it's custom to save an amount of genetic material so you can continue to have heirs in the event of your death.

It seems customary for the Fourth to go to school at the Fifth, which explains the close relationship between Isaac and Jeannemary, and Abigail and Magnus.

On Protesilaus:

He's married??? He has children???? Oh my goodness, that makes his unfortunate demise at Cytherea's hands so much more tragic.

... Okay, I think that's all I really have to say on that!

A little explanation of naming systems

I did already get the idea, literally from the Dramatis Personae in Gideon the Ninth, that names refer to your House. Interesting to me is that they work differently to current surnames: people have different last names to their parents, and their last names are at least somewhat unique to them. Even siblings rarely share a name, making Coronabeth and Ianthe exceptions to the rule.

Interesting!!

Pelleamena and Priamhark: It shouldn't surprise me that these two are named for people in the Iliad. I kind of figured, with Priamhark, but it's a little less obvious with Pelleamena.

I adore the little pronounciation guides, tbh.

Crux, to rhyme with "sucks": Yeah sounds about right

Marta Dyas: DIE-ass. I'm sorry, I couldn't come up with anything better.

You know, I'm glad I decided to dig into these in a bit more detail, because Tamsyn's notes on these are hilarious.

On Ianthe and Coronabeth:

In the original, Ianthe and Corona were "Cainabeth and Abella", a feat of naming so unsubtle that I might as well have just gone with "Goodtwin" and "Badtwin". And it's not even accurate! It should be Badtwin, and Lessbadtwin.

I'm reminded of Coronabeth going "She could have taken me!!!" after Ianthe became Lyctor. Oh, she sure could have! Why do you sound jealous, Coronabeth?

On Jeannemary and Isaac:

Isaac here foreshadows Gideon's death by doing the "bravest and stupidest" thing, i.e. getting his abdomen made into a huge Connect-4 board. I might as well have called Jeannemary and Isaac "Don'tgetattached" and "Deadsoon".

Okay, rude. I mean, I didn't end up reading into the naming while reading Gideon for the first time, though maybe I should have. Maybe I wouldn't have gotten so attached (and upset) when they were both deadsoon.

On Palamedes:

Pal-AM-a-dees. At first I had a coarse comparison here, but then I removed it.

Palamadeez nuts, lol. So rude, Tamsyn.

Oh wow, more foreshadowing in the names of Dulcinea and Protesilaus. Wow. Okay remind me to dissect any new names that come up in Nona the Ninth (whenever I get to actually reading that).

... Okay, we're done with the appendices of Gideon the Ninth!!

Now soon to follow: Appendices of Harrow the Ninth, including As Yet Unsent, then I will read The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, and then, then finally, we will start on our reread of Gideon and Harrow.

I can't wait!

I had a blorbo thought and ik you rlly like technoshipping so I thought I'd put it here for u <3

Anyways Zane goes to throw out his pink apron after it gets messy and everyone makes fun of him for it and Jay goes to fish it out of the trash- I mean. Boy grew up in a junkyard, everything is salvage. He'll salvage this, too. And hopefully his relationship with Zane.

Yada yada some time passes, Jay and everyone gets caught up in saving the world and stuff, eventually forgets. More time passes and we're somewhere around Possession with that one gag about Jay having a stuffie and they're moving into the new place. Zane is helping and finds his old apron in Jay's stuff, wonders what it's doing there.

"Is this my old apron? What's it doing here?"

"Huh-? OH! I thought I lost that ages ago!"

"But I... you kept it?"

Jay winces, "is that weird? Did I make it weird?" He reaches to take the apron and throw it away- since Zane clearly doesn't want it now that it's awkward. He'd gladly toss himself with it. "Here, I'll just take it and-"

"No."

"N-no?"

"No, Jay. You did not 'make it weird ', I just..." Zane trails off, rubbing the old fabric between his fingers. It's color is washed out, and he smiles posthumously to find the stains remain. He had regretted throwing it out, even looked for it himself. He had assumed he looked too late... "Thank you, Jay." He looks up at the blue ninja and smiles and the LEDs in his eyes radiate a warmth Jay swears he can feel rising in his cheeks.

"Uh, y-yeah, no problem-"

And suddenly Jay feels himself enveloped in a sort of clumsy hug, Zane too stiff and overly-gentle for it to really be considered a hug. "Thank you, Jay." Zane repeats.

Jay returns the hug with a gentle squeeze, "yeah. Don't mention it, pal."

AHHHHHhhhhh!!!

Sorry i replied late, but also tahnk you for sending this I love this!!

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Mike Disfarmer (American, 1884-1959) Two Pals with Cigarettes printed posthumously, blind stamped 'TheDisfarmer Collection - Authorized Edition'

Christopher Lee: A Sinister Centenary - Number 5

Welcome to Christopher Lee: A Sinister Centenary! Over the course of May, I will be counting down My Top 31 Favorite Performances by my favorite actor, the late, great Sir Christopher Lee, in honor of his 100th Birthday. Although this fine actor left us a few years ago, his legacy endures, and this countdown is a tribute to said legacy! Today is Christopher Lee’s official birthday! It is only fitting that, on this auspicious occasion, we move into the Top 5. Today’s Subject, My 5th Favorite Christopher Lee Performance: Count Dooku, from Star Wars.

Whatever one may think of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (that’s a topic so full of debate, especially in light of more recent Star Wars features, that I don’t DARE touch it here), I think most would agree that Christopher Lee’s iconic Sith villain, Count Dooku – a.k.a. Darth Tyrannus – is a highlight of the latter two movies, as well as the animated spin-off movie “The Clone Wars,” which acted as a sort of pilot for the CGI series of the same name. (These are actually, to my knowledge, the only times Lee has actually played the character; the rest of the time, Dooku has been voiced by Corey Burton or other actors, so I’m going to focus this entry primarily on the movies, in terms of what I discuss.) This was one of the roles that brought Lee back into the limelight; since the mid-80s, at least, his career had been on something of a decline. He was still working, of course, but nothing seemed to really get anyone’s attention, so to speak. It was “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” in 2002 (as well as the start of a certain other trilogy the year before, which I’ll get to in a couple of days) that reminded people of what a grand performer Lee was, and brought him to the attention of a whole new generation of fans. Originally, the character of Count Dooku had been envisioned as a COUNTESS, and various character designs and concepts for a female Sith Lord were thrown back and forth at Lucasfilm with that in mind. (Fun fact, at least two of these concepts would later find life in the form of two other characters, Asajj Ventress and Zam Wessell.) However, somewhere along the way, George Lucas decided it would be a fine idea to cast the great Christopher Lee as the villain, so the character was retooled in the vein of the sort of imposing, upper-class renegades Lee was known for portraying. For Lee, the part was a second chance at glory: he’d actually been offered a role in “A New Hope” decades before (which role it was seems to change depending on which account you read), but had turned the film down due to a busy schedule. Knowing how popular the Star Wars franchise was, and how much money it would bring him, he obviously wasn’t going to turn down the opportunity a second time. There was something else appealing to the role, which is rather sweet when looked at in hindsight: in a twisted, backwards way, this role enabled him a final shot at a “collaboration” with his old pal, Peter Cushing. Cushing, of course, had appeared in “A New Hope” as Grand Moff Tarkin; by playing Count Dooku in the same franchise, and taking part in the same over-arching story, Lee, in essence, would inject himself once more into the same story and project as Cushing. Posthumously, the pair could work together once again. This was lost on no one working on the picture, Lee included. That’s genuinely touching, when you think about it. As far as the character and performance go, in the movies, at least, we actually don’t get that much of Dooku onscreen – he’s only physically present in the last third of the second film, and the opening act of the third, and his role in the animated film isn’t much bigger. But with what time we DO get, we are given an interesting and wonderfully decadent character. An interesting thing Lucas did with the Prequel films was how he used the villains: each of the major Sith followers in the films – Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and General Grievous – are meant to be dark reflections of Anakin Skywalker, foreshadowing the future path he will take when he becomes Darth Vader. With Dooku, the parallels are curious, and surprisingly subtle. Dooku is an elegant old grandmaster; a relic of a bygone age who has, ironically, turned in on itself. He is a figure representing a specific period of the Jedi Order, but as a traitor to that same order, and their adversary, he proves that even the most seemingly incorruptible, noble, or otherwise well-meaning figures can fall to darkness if pushed in the right direction. (Hint-Hint.) There’s a touch of sympathy to Dooku, as he was Yoda’s student, which gives the two a unique relationship; furthermore, he was Qui Gon Jinn’s own master, and the way he speaks of his former apprentice makes it clear he truly did care for him, and misses him deeply. You get the feeling, from the way Dooku talks, that it might have been the loss of Qui Gon that helped push him towards the Dark Side: this foreshadows how losses in Anakin’s life will help to propel him towards the path of Vader. Of course, Dooku is not Vader, and his ultimate downfall only proves this, with clever foreshadowing once more in play…but, for the sake of potential spoilers (not that I imagine it will be spoiling much for anybody), I think I’d better stop there. Suffice to say, as one of my favorite characters from the Prequel trilogy, and one of my favorite Star Wars villains overall, Count Dooku is more than worthy of a spot in my personal Top 5. Tomorrow, I discuss my Number 4 choice for the countdown! Happy Birthday, Sir Christopher Lee: there’s still more to come in your name.

Austrians! Gerhard Berger, Niki Lauda, Jochen Rindt?

I'm only going to answer Niki and Jochen because somebody else sent me Gerhard up ahead! Thank you for this ask!!!

Ok, Niki goes first:

... don't crucify me please.

Niki definitely ranks among my favourites, he was an amazing driver, but he’s just not up there as much as some of the others for me! I don’t actually think he’s overrated at all, just personally there’s a bit of a mismatch of intensity between how I feel about him versus some of my pals here lol

Obviously, even though he made it a good long while after 1976 and was extraordinarily resilient, he still did not deserve that crash!

(Don’t remember why I put paddock slut-- I think it’s literally that one photo of him in the grass, you guys know the one)

Now Jochen, who won his championship the year my boyfriend’s father was born! (How I remember that dude’s age.)

Jochen... People only ever seem to remember him as F1′s only posthumous champion, which I find very sad. Again I don’t know as many hard facts about him as I would like to, but I’m working on that. Personally, one of the biggest what-ifs of F1 if he hadn’t died. Definitely deserved better :(

for the book asks: 3, 4, 11, 12, 16!

3. what were your top 5 books of the year? i feel like i had a kinda solid-to-good reading year where everything is p good but few things really stand out so this list is cheating a lil

1. JJEU (james joyce extended universe): rereads so they shouldn't count BUT by far my favourite reading experience of the whole year was reading ulysses (novel of all time) along with burgess's book on joyce & frank delaney's lovely lovely lovely podcast re:joyce (& a bunch of other stuff). also i'm pivoting from portrait to ulysses but stephen is still my babygirl. i haven't finished finnegans wake yet but we don't talk about that. 2. palliser/parliamentary series, anthony trollope. technically read half of these last year. i don't think this series is as consistent as barsetshire but it's also in some ways more interesting (especially re: women). but like i'm mainly here for silly soapy victorian comfort reading about thee #1 iconic girlboss/malewife couple of all time, lady glencora & planty 'most principled & delicate of men' pal (blorbo from my books) 3. solitud, víctor català. no freedom as wide-reaching & no captivity as total as the catalonian mountains (& being a woman, but that's mainly column b). don't remember this in great detail but remember loving the landscape writing & interiority of main character mila. 4. games without rules: the often interrupted history of afghanistan, tamim ansary. just a really good, compelling history of afghanistan that i enjoyed & learned a lot from. 5. broken earth trilogy, n.k. jemisin. everyone in the SFFsphere already knows this series rocks but yeah it really really does. also it allowed me to be a [redacted] truther & be right which is always fun.

4. did you discover any new authors that you love this year? i've had jo walton on my radar for a while but she literally wrote a book (tooth&claw) that can only be described as 'trollope but everyone's a dragon' bc trollope pissed her off so much. i love trollope obviously but that's valid & it was fun, so i shall read more from her. i also had a lot of fun with t. kingfisher's nettle & bone so i will be reading more from her as well.

11. what was your favourite book that has been out for a while, that you just now read? 'out for a while' is so broad how do i even answer this. the posthumous memoirs of brás cubas by machado de assis has been out long enough to become a newly rediscovered gem several times over and it is genuinely a lot of fun (& much shorter than tristram shandy) so that's one

12. any books that disappointed you? the undercurrents by kirsty bell combines memoir and the history of berlin through one specific building next to landwehrkanal (where the author lived for a while) & there's some interesting stuff in it but also the memoir parts feature a lot of complaining about how her altbau apartment (which she owns) is too big & has bad vibes and leaking pipes bc of historical trauma or whatever & sorry but in this economy???

16. what is the most over-hyped book you read this year? cursed bunny by bora chang (tr. anton hur) is a fine if not especially memorable collection of short stories. it's fine - *single pistol shot*

“If everyone ends the story being buddy buddy with them I think that comes off as childish/unrealistic” I definitely agree with you there, it would be a bit strange if they’re all buddies by the end or there isn’t some kind of unease! To be honest the only villain I can see having a buddy buddy or shall we say mending their broken relationships by the end is Touya, given he has his family which I know their relationships are a bit….messed up but still there’s that. With Toga and Shigaraki I don’t really see whom they could be “buddy buddy” with by the end, and this is going off the assumption of the villains not dying by the end.

I think the reason many people think it’ll end with the LoV being besties with with some of the main cast by the end is simply that that’s how many redemption arcs end if the character doesn’t die. This is why people hate the idea of Endeavor having a redemption arc--because they think it’s going to end with everyone forgiving him in the end, either posthumously or not. And given that the story seems to be leaning toward a redemptive type ending for at least the main three LoV characters, that inevitably makes people assume they’ll be pals with everyone in the end (or at least with the characters who matter). 

Personally I think it’s to early to rule out redemptive death completely. I highly doubt Hori would kill Toga given he enjoys his Yuri bait to much, plus she hasn’t been shown to be physically/mentally at her limit to the point where her death would feel more expected. But Touya and Shigaraki could easily do the “sacrificed myself because I’m dying anyway” trope. 

People who are against this, say it would mean the Heroes, particularly Izuku and Shoto failed to save their villains--but that’s a very limited view on what saving can mean. As long as Izuku frees Shigaraki from AfO’s control, and Shoto manages to sooth Touya’s anger/hurt to the point where he can care again, then they are in a sense saved. I mean, in the end of Star Wars, Luke saves his father, but he still dies--that doesn't mean he failed.  

Touya and particularly Shigaraki dying is an easy way to end things and have it make sense. Again, redemptions usually end with people forgiving the character in question. The issue is that Hori didn't set up that dynamic in his story earlier, while also having the LoV double down constantly. There’s also the problem of Enji, and Bakugou’s arcs which are still ongoing and have racked up hundreds of chapters. 

Having the LoV change their minds in the last 50 chapters is hard enough to believe, but having the world (because their actions were shown to have global consequences) forgive them no problem just because they helped stop AfO, the guy they were helping without much complaint twenty-minutes ago, is even weirder. On top of that many people suspect Izuku will be Shigarak’s new bff along with Bakugou, while Aizawa becomes his father figure because Kurogiri tells him to as a dying request. And Ochacko and Himko are (girl)friends by the end as well. 

This isn’t me saying I’m against redemption arcs or even these over the top optimist/unrealistic ones, but they have to fit the story. Bnha has always shown with characters like Bakugou and Enji (or even Aoyama) that forgiveness takes work and no everyone will be 100% okay with you regardless. These characters that have for the most part done equal or less then the LoV in terms of harm,  fought and bled to be better people and even then don’t get hands held. So, if Hori does end it with everyone being pals I will call that some crap writing. 

Here Is a Crazy Story About Jeb Bush's Brother and a $400 Billion Tunnel to Russia That Wasn't Meant to Be Neil Bush didn't seem to flinch when his pal the Rev. Moon schemed to drill from Alaska to Siberia.

Mother Jones By Tim Murphy January 6, 2015

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon had a grand idea: the World Peace King Tunnel. It would be 53 miles long, cost $400 billion, and stretch underneath the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia. It would take three years to build. When completed, it would link up with the eight-lane International Peace Highway that Moon had also proposed. That road would be bordered on both sides by one kilometer of land that would not belong to any nation. When both projects were completed, traffic could pass unimpeded from the Cape of Good Hope to New York City. And if travelers wanted to get married in the tunnel, there'd be places to do that, too. A multinational construction project that had no funding stream or historical precedent and that was proposed by a self-described messiah who believed he had posthumously healed Adolf Hitler might strike some people as a bit ambitious. But in 2005, when Moon, the late South Korean-born conservative media mogul and founder of the Unification Church, embarked on a world tour to promote his idea, he brought along an unusual companion—Neil Bush, the younger brother of President George W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

LINK to full story

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IT TOOK A VILLAGE

Happy July everybody! The July/August issue of Phoenix Magazine, now on the stands...

...features the 2023 edition of “Best of the Valley.” Your Humble Narrator is proud to be one of the authors/arbiters; see if you can guess which of the dozen or so entries I composed.

One entry I wrote was devoted to China Village, a venerable restaurant on East Indian School where I loved to get lunch, often meeting my pal Steve Weiss (of the long-running Valley film series "No Festival Required"). It does not appear in the magazine because, alas, China Village permanently closed its doors between the time I wrote it and the time the issue went to press. So as a fond posthumous tribute, here it is:

BEST THROWBACK CHINESE JOINT

China Village Restaurant

A quick lunch or dinner at this long-standing wok-ery gives you more than just good eats. The blessedly un-updated décor and atmosphere, and the old-school entrees, can give you the uncanny sense that you’ve stepped into 1973. The prices feel like a welcome throwback, too.

2710 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix

What do you think of Joan of Arc, Mr b?

Mr. B thinks quite well of Joan, as early as the first episode;

She was the first person he gave helpful advice to (let alone about relationships), and in turn, Joan was also the first person to actually give him a hug, ever since he's met Scudworth... Sure, he and Mr. B have been good pals, but he hadn't been given this much a caring affection between that period.

He might've temporarily given up his search for companionship at that time, but when Joan hugged Mr. B in Escape to Beer Mountain, he couldn't help but think of the first time he's been affectionately hugged, and by Wesley no less. In that moment, he only felt it respectful to purposefully posthumously return the thanks to his brother, for having a part in why Mr. Butlertron is where he is now.

"Don't mention it... Wesley."

20 March 2023: Cucamonga, various artists. (Del-Fi, 1998)

Along with my previous post, this is the result of a very short-lived Zappa kick that occurred once my 2021 purchase of his 1996 posthumous audio-vérité compilation The Lost Episodes wound up at the top of my to-play stack. That album features a couple of very early recordings done when Zappa worked at Paul Buff’s Pal Studios in the early ’60s. In 1964, Zappa bought the studio from Buff and renamed it Studio Z. Cucamonga is a compilation of recordings of various groups done during these years. It masquerades as a Zappa album and shows on the front cover a picture of Zappa several years after Studio Z went out of business (he was framed by local authorities for producing pornography, which he wasn’t doing, and it got shut down), so I’ve always considered this a disingenuous, fake exploitation album and never bothered with it. I remember when it came out and I disliked it then, for these same reasons. Flash forward to today when I’m grooving to Pal Studios outtakes, and for the first time in 25 years I felt I had a need for it. I procured this copy on eBay, and of course later found out it was reissued in 2004 by Rhino with bonus tracks (but without changing that disingenuous cover art). 

Above we see the offending front cover and back cover, again showing a wild hippie-style Zappa photo. When he worked at Pal/Studio Z, he looked like a clean-cut accountant. (I’m also not fond of Del-Fi using the quasi-subtitle “Frank’s Wild Years” that you see on the spine in the top photo, a line copped from the title of a 1987 Tom Waits album. Aside from these hardly being Zappa’s wild years, it’s just a lazy thing to tack on.)

Below is the opened jewel case, showing the back of the booklet and the CD.

This is the tray inlay art. Now this is what Zappa looked like during his Cucamonga years (he’s on the left). This photo is from a famous episode of The Steve Allen Show where a young Zappa “played” a bicycle.

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