Terminus: Little Five Points

[jack_babalon]

Mother F@#$ing Angel Y'all!
March 18th, 2007
~Rob M.

Perceptive readers of my blog (all five of you) will recognize that this tag is an homage to none other than Count Dante, "Patriarch and Supreme Grand-Past-Master of the Black Dragon Fighting Society" and "deadliest man alive". That's no small boast when you keep in mind that this was way back in the early 70's, a time when every man in the United States was obligated to have a moustache, a blackbelt, a coke habit and at least one ABBA album in the their record collection!

Ahhh to be a kid again, when an issue of Conan the Barbarian cost 15 cents and offered you the chance to have a Charles Atlas body and the secrets of Dim Mak ('the Death Touch') were only a stamp away.

Comments

now with correct spelling!

[vomikronnoxis.livejournal.com]

They had to start shrink-wrapping that book in stores after dozens of cases where the reader simply skipped to the section about "Dim Mak" in the store and then DEATH TOUCHED their way out of the store without paying.

I've shown you this before, right?
http://www.joerlansdale.com/shenchuan/
(Joe Lansdale -- weird fiction writer and noted KILLING MACHINE)

~rl

Count Dante's Inferno

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing that on the news. I think things got bad when people started Dim Making waiters, landlords and parking ticket officers. Then it really got bad when that daytrader in Chicago went on a Dim Mak rampage when he got laid off. Thirty two dead when all was said and done. Still I stand by the Count when he says 'Dim Mak doesn't kill people... people with afros and moustaches who know Dim Mak kill people!'... as true today as when it was first spoken.

I knew that Joe Lansdale was into some martial arts shit but I had no idea he was a teacher. You gotta love an author who is desperately trying to become one of his own characters.

Re: Count Dante's Inferno

[vomikronnoxis.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad he decided to direct that mid-life crisis energy at becoming THE KARATE MASTER instead of "psycho killer who worships 'The God of the Razor."

His logo is gold:

Re: Count Dante's Inferno

[weishaupt.livejournal.com]

I think things got bad when people started Dim Making waiters, landlords and parking ticket officers. Then it really got bad when that daytrader in Chicago went on a Dim Mak rampage when he got laid off.

ROTFL!

[weishaupt.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

But I thought the Black Dragon Society, or Kokuryu-kai was a Japanese nationalist political society who supported Pan-Asianism. Somehow I can't see them teaching guys with afros, moustaches, coke habits and ABBA collections the secrets of Dim Mak. ;)

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

I didn't think a Japanese nationalist political society would advertise in comic books! Well we'll just see what the Merry Marvel Marching Society has to say about this!