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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station
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Richard Linklater's Slacker, in handy snack form. Follow for semiregularly scheduled interventions into your regular attention field. "Honor thy error as a hidden intention."
Pinned
I mean, all those other directions, just because they thought about it...
became separate realities.
They just went on from there and lived the rest of their life.
I mean, entirely different movies, but we'll never see it...
because, you know, we're kind of trapped in this one reality restriction
when I hear the true call.
What's the true call?
You know, the true call. I know when I hear it.
— Anything else you want to add?
— Yeah, there's something else.
To all you workers out there.
Every single commodity you produce is a piece of your own death.
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
To hell with the kind of work you have to do to earn a living.
All it does is fill the bellies of the pigs who exploit us.
Hey.
Look at me. I'm making it.
I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it.
What would it take for you to get a job?
Hey, I'll get a job...
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Got a light?
Excuse me. Hi.
Do you mind if I ask you a couple questions for a project we're working on?
Sure.
Okay?
So, uh.
Did you vote in the most recent election?
Hell, no. I got less important things to do.
— What do you do to earn a living?
— You mean work?
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
He was always getting loaded, beating up my mom...
dragging us kids all over creation.
Nah...
I couldn't wait for the bastard to die.
I'll probably go back next week and dance on his grave.
Just let me out right over here.
Hey, you got a cigarette?
— Hey, you got a cigarette?
— Yeah, sure.
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
You better get in back.
That's our last one.
Never mind.
— Where you coming from?
— Funeral.
— Sorry.
— Fuck it. Should've let him rot.
Who's that?
Stepfather.
— Didn't get along?
— Hell, no.
He was a serious fuck-up.
I'm glad the son of a bitch is dead.
I thought he would never die.
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
— Okay.
— What did you get?
— Distributor.
— H.E.I.?
— Yeah.
— You gonna pay for that?
— Uh
— huh.
Listen, uh...
go over there by those A.M.C.'s.
There's a hole in the fence.
— Okay.
— Just go through there.
— All right.
— Pick you up on the other side.
— How about a lift back into town?
— Yeah.
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
— What are you runnin' now?
— Quadrajet.
— Uh
— huh. That's all right.
— G.M.
— Shit, howdy.
— Good carburetors.
— Yep. Well, that's pretty clean.
— Thanks.
Hey, I gotta get a front left rotor for the Goat. You need anything?
— Yeah, I could get some stuff.
— All right.
— I'm going. Free ride.
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
— It's practically a big block now.
— You mill the heads?
No, didn't mill the heads.
Stock manifolds though, huh?
Yeah, I didn't feel like messin' with the -
I didn't feel like messin' with those headers.
Yeah, the tripower linkage never worked out on that Goat.
— Yeah?
— Yeah.
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Here's those sockets you loaned me.
They're all there.
Thanks. About time.
Yeah, I loaned them to somebody else though.
So you put that 383 bore kit back in here, huh?
Yeah, I got the pop-up pistons.
— Had the block bored over 30.
— Yeah.
400 crankshaft.
400 harmonic balancer.
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
That Chevy still poppin' freeze plugs?
Shit. No way. It is blowin' power valves though.
— Yeah?
— Yeah.
And that was the same dog he took down to the city jail basement...
— when he went to silence Oswald.
— Uh
— huh.
— Hey.
— See you guys.
Yeah. Later.
— Here.
— Thanks.
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
and how he was icing people at a pretty young age, but, uh...
you know, I didn't know all that stuff about his dogs.
— Dogs?
— Yeah.
He was fascinated with his dogs.
He had this one dachshund named Sheba that he just took with him everywhere.
He treated her like his wife.
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
So, what else has been going on?
Oh, well, I did find out some really startling information about Jack Ruby.
— Uh
— huh?
— You know...
I always knew all that stuff how he had been a hit man for the mob in
Chicago...
and in New Orleans and stuff...
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
— His Life, His Words, His Deeds.
— Cool.
Yeah, just one more and I'll have the whole set.
— All right.
— The last one's the Jackie Kennedy issue...
that's got those wonderful articles like "How I Told the Children"...
and "Why the Eternal Flame" and all that stuff.
Uh-huh.
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'm supposed to be at a movie, so I gotta get a move on.
— But I'll look for your book, okay?
— Definitely look for it.
Profiles in Cowardice or Conspiracy a-Go-Go.
— Hey, what's happening?
— Hey, not much. How you doing?
Oh, pretty good. I just located this wonderful J.F.K. Memorial
booklet.
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
— Really, really. Yeah.
At the White House they were visited all the time by this doctor...
that they came to call "Dr. Feel-Good."
Oh, it's just crazy. It's just crazy.
Well, you know, these all look really good...
but I think I'll just wait for your book to come out.
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
do something like call it Conspiracy a-Go-Go.
That's catchy. Yeah, I like that.
I've just expanded and expanded upon it, you know. And I went on -
There's this new section about how J.F.K. And Jackie were speed freaks.
And they were just hopped up on amphetamines day in and day out.
— Is that true?
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
And, I mean, he was telling me that it's gonna be a real winner.
I was thinking of calling it something like Profiles in Cowardice or something.
But he said he didn't think it was too good an idea, you know.
And he really thought that maybe I should, uh...
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
But, of course, then there's my book, you know.
— You've written one of these books?
— Well, I've been working on mine.
Yeah. It's gonna be good though.
It's gonna be this totally new approach.
I was just talking with my publisher at this small press.
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
where he was supposed to meet with J.D. Tippet...
and have their "breakfast of infamy."
Yeah, yeah. You know, the waitresses went on record in the Warren Report...
— saying that Oswald didn't like his eggs and used bad language.
You're kidding.
— My goodness.
— This is good.
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
pull up in front of Oswald's house...
— and give this little "Tit
— Tit."
— "Tit
— Tit"?
Yeah, yeah. It was the tip-off for Oswald, you know?
Yeah, he was supposed to go up the street up Beckly Avenue -
he was in Oak Cliff- to go to the Steak and Egg Kitchen...
November 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Forgive my Grief. It is great.
'Cause, you know, this also has all this testimony in it.
Like, gosh, you know, they talked to Mrs. Erlene Roberts, you know...
who was Oswald's landlady and stuff.
Oh, yeah. And she swears that she saw this, uh, Dallas patrol car...
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
And it's great. It's just got this like second by second account...
of just the entire tragic sequence, you know.
— That's fascinating. Yeah.
— Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
But then, of course, then there's my real favorite one right here...
which you really should snap up if you can.
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Best Evidence. That's the one with all the head-snap stuff in it.
— Oh, yeah?
— Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Of course, if you like that, you should really read Six Seconds in
Dallas...
'cause, you know, Six Seconds is the one that's got all the trajectories...
and the triangulation of the bullets and stuff.
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
and he was able to just see everything.
I really don't know too much about this. I was kind of just flipping
through.
Oh, well, it's really good. If you like that...
you should really read one of the other books around here. It might be here.
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It wasn't Oswald that did it. Of course you know it was Jack Ruby.
— Oh, really? I didn't realize that.
— Oh, yes.
This is also the book that's got the testimony of Sam Holland, you know...
the Prince of the Puff of Smoke.
Yeah, he was up there on the overpass over Dealey Plaza...
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM