| From: | "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@***.GWU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | SPRAWL: The Rosebud |
| Date: | Tue, 8 Feb 1994 01:08:44 -0500 |
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The Rosebud
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Welcome to The Rosebud, chummer. The movies start in about
fifteen minutes, so you might want to head over to the bar and get a beer
or something.
Movies tonight? Well, we've cranked up the old 75mm film
projector -- that damn thing's almost hundred years old, now -- and we'll
be showing this old flick called Blade Runner, from back in the 1980's.
Beleive it or not, there's this bunch of old geezers comin' in, not one of
'em less than eighty years old, who want to watch with us! They say its a
"cult hit," or something like that. Me, I don't know.
After that, we've got some stupid comedy from 1994 about this
annoying detective going after a dolphin -- really just to clear the
palate, I don't expect anybody to really like it. Then a television
series from 2010 talking about what things will be like in the 2050's --
damn were they wrong! No _thought_ of the awakening! -- and while that's
going on everybody can vote on what to show next.
Where do we get 'em? Well, we've got this deal, see, with the
night watchman at the Museum of Mass Media, he lets us borrow old film
reels and videodiscs for the night sometimes. We've also got the largest
collection of old movies anywhere on the 'net -- yup, that's right, all
digitized, and any decker can come in and watch 'till their flesh rots
away from the 'trodes for all we care.
We just keep running this stuff all night, here. The place is
pretty quiet during the day, really, but business ain't too bad. Lots of
kooks and drekheads lookin' for a quiet place to get a drink or a bag of
popcorn. Yeah, that old machine is kept running night and day. We've
replaced most of the moving parts with new simmetal, but it still works
the same way it did seventy-five years ago, popping bag after bag and
pouring soy margarine all over it.
Here, chummer, have a bag on me. Come on, sit down -- the
previews are starting! What are previews? Sorta like commercials...
c'mon, I'll explain......
