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Sign of the times. Japanese style.
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The Box Man Kobo Abe.

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Sign of the times. Japanese style.Hmmm, this is all well and good but what happens when someone tries to put money in your vending machine disguise?

You get violated anyway.

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Originally posted by oddmanrush:
Sign of the times. Japanese style.
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The Box Man Kobo Abe.

Almost read that a few years back. HOw much derivation did you find from it in Gibson's 'All Tomorrow's Parties'? (Sort of my favorite Gib book. Loved the 'watch-savant- character, for me Gib's most human character to date at the time, echoes of whom I felt in the China/Cuban kid in Spook Country).

And Boomzilla was just the perfect sardonic comedic foil. Imagine him as an incubus sitting on Reagan's chest at night back in the down-sized Big 80s...

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Originally posted by oddmanrush:
Sign of the times. Japanese style.
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The Box Man Kobo Abe.

Almost read that a few years back. HOw much derivation did you find from it in Gibson's 'All Tomorrow's Parties'? (Sort of my favorite Gib book. Loved the 'watch-savant- character, for me Gib's most human character to date at the time, echoes of whom I felt in the China/Cuban kid in Spook Country).

And Boomzilla was just the perfect sardonic comedic foil. Imagine him as an incubus sitting on Reagan's chest at night back in the down-sized Big 80s...

As I recall, I didn't find much in the way of derivation apart from Laney. That certainly spoke to the degrading self in the contemporary, mediated, city.

Rise In Naked Hotel Sleepwalkers

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Workers at a chain of budget hotels are being given advice on how to deal with naked sleepwalkers.

Most sleepwalkers are men It follows an increase in the number of guests found wandering around in the night with no clothes on.

A study by Travelodge found there had been more than 400 cases in the past year, almost all involving men.

Sleep experts blame stress, alcohol abuse and lack of sleep for the disorder.

The research, conducted in 310 Travelodge hotels, found sleepwalkers wandered all over the building.

I think the use of modern sleep aids like ambien might have something to do with it also.

I've sleepwalked more than once...luckily (as far as I know anyway) I haven't ever gone outside. I've woken up on the couch a few times though.

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My wife wakes up on the couch, but it's not because she was sleepwalking. She gets up, goes to the couch, and goes back to sleep there, and she just doesn't remember that she did it in the morning.

Hmm. I typically don't have someone around to tell me if I spoke or what was going on...I fell down a flight of stairs once while sleepwalking, and I was semi-conscious at the time. Felt like a dream, with my feet going like Wile E. Coyote's when he steps off a cliff. Didn't even properly wake up when I landed at the bottom with a broken wrist and dislocated elbow! I just went back to bed until the pain woke me a few hours later.

And then once I woke up naked on the couch directly across from the highrise construction site outside my balcony door. Fun times.

How long ago did you break the arm? Do you lock yourself in your bedroom now?

My older sister used to sleepwalk and talk, eyes open and scary, and I'd usually wake up - because she was talking - and lead her back to her bed. Probably because my mother doesn't walk, but talks in her sleep LOUDLY and CLEARLY like she's making international phone calls. It's extremely unnerving. My dad could sleep through anything so it never bothered him.

That must be around 15 years ago now? something like that. Four hours of surgery to reconstruct the wrist, including a bone graft, and titanium pins in lieu of a cast while it healed. Robo-Minx!

I don't lock myself in, but for a long time when I woke up in the night to use the bathroom or something I'd wake right up, not sort of try to stay asleep...and I was v scared to sleep upstairs anywhere for a long time. About the only reason I bought this house is that the bedrooms are downstairs! but then one morning I woke up on the couch--upstairs. So now I'm back to attempted full-on awake whenever I stir in the night. Sigh.

I didn't sleepwalk as a child, it seems to be stress-related I think. That's interesting, the women in your family talking so much! I don't think I do, bfs/roommates/family have never mentioned it.

"Meth-Gun" to debut...

I sleepwalk like a muddaphukkor. Always have...usually worst when I have moved or travelled a long distance, but occasionally happens whenever.

Actually got written up when in college for sleepwalking into a forign exchange dorm, throwing open their window and pissing out it before crawling in to bed with a mortified japanese kid.

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"Meth-Gun" to debut...

They've named it backwards! a radar gun emits radar to measure speed, am I right? a meth gun should be propelling methamphetamine all over the place.

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Actually got written up when in college for sleepwalking into a forign exchange dorm, throwing open their window and pissing out it before crawling in to bed with a mortified japanese kid.

That is perfect. That beats waking up naked in front of construction workers any day.

OUr son used to like to piss in closets while asleep.

Boy, that potty training musta messed him up!

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Boy, that potty training musta messed him up!

Fave scene from our son's early years of 'learning the ropes': he is lying on the foot of the bed, with his hand coyly clasping his favorite part of himself at that time, his peeny.

"I LOVE my peeny, mama," he says. "I'm gonna make it stretch all the way to the ceiling!"

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sleepwalking into a forign exchange dorm, throwing open their window and pissing out it before crawling in to bed with a mortified japanese kid.

One wonders how well his potty-training survived Booger After Dark.

"Would you like to see my bunghole?"

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"Would you like to see my bunghole?"

Quick! Anybody got a match?!?