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I've mentioned HoneyBun and the opus Flapping here and in the first chapter. Before we hit the road together, I think I should attempt to illuminate any darkened nooks and crannies in your most estimable cognizance, thereby banishing doubt, confusion from our narrative.

Your humble narrator, circa 1974

We must go back in time, my droogies, back to Berkeley of the sixties and to the last great San Francisco era, the last true bohemia (as opposed to rent-controlled politically-correct permanent underclass, burners and bullshit we find now—bizarro world) in the city, before BART allowed the MoneyPeople™ to stream in and build the ugliest clumps of highrises in the western world, before gay and women's liberation polarized, politicized, and froze all cultural discourse, before the bathhouses turned the city into a plague-ridden petri dish, injecting suffering, death, and prudery into the cool grey city of love.

A quick trip through a happier time and trifling tribulation and extemporaneous titillation.

That's right kiddies ... from now until the end of the month, the 28th, National Tooth Fairy Day ... or, if you prefer ... National Inconvenience Yourself Day, you can get a free ringtone from three songs off the the Flight of the Atombee* cd.

Three tones available right now are:

1. Atom Bee and Birdie
   
2. Serenity Applicator
3. Molecule Men 

Click here to go to Sun Pop Blue Ringtone Store and download a FREE ringtone! 

Now, on the first of March, or thereabouts, we will be adding a bunch more analogue synthesizer ringtones, mostly serge, of course. But they will be for sale. Not free anymore! So get yours while supplies last! And tell your friends!

Who loves you, baby?

*official soundtrack to Flapping.

Well ... what are you waiting for?

It has been reported that Senator David Vitter, R-Lousiana, was fond of being diapered by prostitutes he hired from the call-girl operation run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, otherwise known as the DC Madam.

Now, when I first heard that another Repube had been caught in a sex-scandal, I thought it inconsistent with what is known about the modern Republican Party: the prostitutes in question were neither (a) male, nor (b) underage.

But then I heard about the diapers and it all fell into place. 

And here are some of his ads from a few years ago,  reminding us that the Senator is an All-American Family Man. The first ad is particularly appropriate. Thank you, Talking Points Memo.

*Disclaimer: I did not photoshop Vitter's face onto a picture of Karl Rove's body here. Rove is much fatter and whiter.