The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure by Jack Handey [More Lost in the 1950s]

Paste Magazine ^ | September 24, 2013 | Sebastien Theroux

[Bender2]

The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure by Jack Handey
Deep Thoughs
by Sebastien Theroux

Humorist Jack Handey’s debut novel tells the delightfully absurd tale of two men’s quest to find the Holy Grail of fictional wealth: a Golden Monkey supposedly worth…a lot. Our not-so-humble narrator (a sociopathic ignoramus) and his friend Don navigate a world of pirates, blow darts, banana peels and treasure maps of dubious origin.

[Bender2]

Re: I hope it ain’t the “Manhood” covers. Those... are VERY gay.

Really, field? Just because a man has... a tommygun--

AND a beautiful... body--

You think he is not... a REAL MAN!

Every man here in Hooterville... backs Bender, field, so he must to be right.

[mikrofon]

TRUE MEN

The buck stopped here .... for 4 issues at a time.

[tet68]

Thanks bender, when I was a kid there were always stacks
of these in the barber shop.

My mom wondered why I wanted to get my hair cut all the time.

[JimRed]

That’s some collection!

[Bender2]

Re: That’s some collection!

Yep, and so damn heavy... that I had to go in for a pick me up lube and oil change!

[OldNewYork]

Interesting. So there was one without the ‘How to Jilt a Woman’ articles?

[tanuki]

Wow! I remember the old magazine and comics racks-what a bounty! Back when a hack writer could make a living. Now, all the kids and wanna-be kids have are micro-chip art and effects-nothing near real entertainment.

[shove_it]

[Bender2]

You know, Otter, poor old Boon never talks about the good old days anymore... does he?

But then again, he's pulling down megabucks... playing Seth Green's no-account father on that Fox sitcom "Dads."

Boon always a lucky sumbitch... wasn't he?

[shove_it]

http://onmilwaukee.com/movies/articles/metcalfriegert.html

[BeadCounter]

Great thread, Thank You Bender2. That Argosy had heck of covers too, before I get into that, someone said the industry died a slow death, True bought out and made porn. I kind of wondered though I have no proof of it if maybe they went through a crackdown the way the comic book industry did because some of those covers of the "Real Men", "Adventure" were pretty violent. ------- Some old magazines are on Compact Disks now...not always the easiest to read. I guess Argosy was a bit prestigious and may be on CDs. I'd really be curious as to those other magazines especially all of the Nazi stories and things of that ilk. That use to be at the grocery store growing up, never looked at them, one cover still sticks in my mind, had Nazis and women and I probably remember it because it was sort of sadistic.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Your favorite TV show?

[BeadCounter]

The ol' lampshade made of skin tale by the Nazis is what this cover is about. Intense really.

[Bender2]

Thanks for the link to the Peter Riegert story. Funny, the more things change the more they don't. Hollywood is not a place, in it a convent of warlocks with an occasional witch [That rhymes with bitch—] tossed in that plays the game of mine is bigger than yours even if it is not instead of making films and television that have merit or, for that matter, sense.

Gadzooks! All they are interest in is the bottom line of a blockbuster that proves their junk is bigger than that of anyone else in the convent. And if that means letting some super star or hot director make a piece of steamy manure film or TV series that is dear to their heart in order to get the star/director to do their projected blockbuster, they do it with a smile on their lips even if mean wasting money that could make decent entertainment.

Back in the days of the Studio System, the men who ran Hollywood were unmitigated sons-a-bitches without any shred of doubt, but they wanted to make films that entertained and made a profit.

Nowadays, it is all about megaprofit from blockbusters made from sure things like old films, old TV series or whatnot that once made people watch.

Creativity and originality and even talent don't mean squat in La-La Land. That's why I gave up butting my ever so sore head against the wall out there. Here on Free Republic, I can do as I wish and make my friends and followers laugh or see the point in my zaniness.

I won't make that zillion dollars being a movie star or THE Director or even get the girl in the end, but then again, I don't have to play the game anymore. I am my own man.

Now, that a story any Man's Magazine would kill for, right? Well, I'm buying... drink up, we got beat the dawn and its gaining on us!

[Bender2]

From http://www.deadline.com/interstitial/?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deadline.com%2F2013%2F09%2Fhunger-games-jennifer-lawrence-gary-ross-reteam-steinbecks-east-of-eden%2F

"Exclusive: Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer have closed a deal with the John Steinbeck estate for a new version of his seminal novel East Of Eden that will be developed as a re-team for The Hunger Games director Gary Ross and Jennifer Lawrence. I’m told that the book is Ross’ favorite American novel and that the director plans to tell the generational story in two films. The novel previously was adapted into one picture, the 1955 Eliza Kazan-directed film that starred James Dean and Richard Davalos as sons who compete for the attention of their farmer father in Salinas, CA."

Gadzooks! This just proves what I said above is right--- East of Eden wasn't a big hit even with James Dean in it!

[martin_fierro]

Hey, I'm published!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Pretty fly for the dead guy.

[tet68]

we got beat the dawn and its gaining on us!

Burning daylight, Bender, Burning Daylight!

[Slings and Arrows]

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

That one’s a fake.