I was unfamiliar with Johnny America
Note to the kids: Bootlegging is wrong. Taping musical performances without an artist's permission is against the guidelines of many clubs, arenas and stadia. In some states, the act may be a crime under wiretapping statutes, as may be the sale, purchase, trade, download, or otherwise intentional acquisition of the resulting product. Any writing in this blog about bootlegs is for educational purposes only because education is never wrong. Also, because it's my job. In the field of reader engagement, I have to be famiiar with a wide variety of historically oriented audience-participation documents. It's important work.
I was unfamiliar with Johnny America until this afternoon. Even then, during a brief flip to another site, I thought to myself, "I should blog about this Johnny Danger." A FAQ provided almost zero explanation, but that was enough.
Johnny America spends most of his days lounging against a low crater, fishing rod in paw. Some afternoons he helps plow the cheese fields — to earn extra money for carrots — but usually he's in the valley cut by the Mercer and Mancini Rivers, idling. The fish on the Moon are constantly drunk and easy to catch. They look almost exactly like bass, but taste like marmalade.
From time to time Johnny casts his line toward Earth, slides down the filament, and calls a meeting of the Moon Rabbit Drinking Club & Benevolence Society. The meetings are typically pot-luck affairs….
Via Google, Johnny America is alternately described as a zine or an online litmag. It stems from Lawrence, Kansas. Of course it does.
There's little reward for writing zines and even less for listening to bootlegs, as many as you might hear, and that's probably roughly why Backstreets links to Johnny Danger this week. Timmy Waldron contributes, "August 11, 2003: The Day Bruce Springsteen Ran Out of Inane Childhood Stories to Talk About Before Starting a New Song."
July 17th, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Thanks for the plug Patrick…hope it gave you a chuckle.
best,
Timmy
July 17th, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Thanks for the plug Patrick…hope it gave you a chuckle