tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post3224107800826161911..comments2024-01-28T02:24:23.386-05:00Comments on Dan Leo: “A Town Called Disdain”, Episode Ten: then came Cleb, and here come the MotorpsychosDan Leohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-14906292209142997232007-08-27T05:26:00.000-04:002007-08-27T05:26:00.000-04:00Larry admits that he stole the name "Motorpsychos"...Larry admits that he stole the name "Motorpsychos" from a trashy 60s Russ Meyer movie called "Motor Psycho". Or maybe the Motorpsychos themselves stole the name. <BR/><BR/>The Insane Unknowns and the Insane Junior Unknowns are just too cool for words. If I could think of such cool gang names I would be able to retire happily, knowing I had done my bit for world literature.<BR/><BR/>As for Cleb, it turns out, or it will turn out, that his family's ranch was just a little too close to one of the A-bomb test sites, and I think the subsequent stuntedness was mostly physical. But I guess that having an atomic bomb going off in your backyard could well have psychological repercussions.Dan Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-51397309472644026892007-08-26T22:31:00.000-04:002007-08-26T22:31:00.000-04:00Motorpsychos: too cool.When I lived in Chicago the...Motorpsychos: too cool.<BR/>When I lived in Chicago there was a gang that probably for the better I knew only from their graffiti called The Insane Unknowns. But soon I moved to a slightly better neighborhood and the gang busy there boasted about the glorious "Insane <I>Junior</I> Unknowns."<BR/>My mother insisted I had made up the name and even the tag. Me! Even though Manny had seen their tags and gleaned some of their lore and vouched for me. His word wasn't good enough my mom, though. But then she was Mrs. Winnetka (if I was ever a Miss W) of the highest order. Her world was clean and polite, and has only grown more so, which is a not unimpressive feat for a seventy-year-old woman. <BR/>I'll have to go back and find out: have you already told how Clem was radiation stunted? I'm not doubting that he was, just if it was mostly physical, intellectual, psychological, all three and to what degree.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12306491903311869968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-55211286609916823232007-08-26T14:41:00.000-04:002007-08-26T14:41:00.000-04:00It would be great if Jim Bronson of "Then Came Bro...It would be great if Jim Bronson of "Then Came Bronson" showed up in this story. I used to love that show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com