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“Light background music was playing. Laura listened with halff an ear. Some kind of slick premillennium crooner on vocals, lots of syrupy strings and jazzy razzing saxophones... “(something something) for you, dear... buh buh buh booh...” She could almost identify the singer... from old movies. Crosby, that was it, Bing Crosby. Now digitizing effects started creeping in and something awful began to happen. Suddenly a bandersnatch had jumped into Crosbys throat. His jovial white-guy Anglo good bives stretched like electric taffy-- arroooooh, werewolf noises. Now Bing was making a ghastly hub hub hub backward croonings, like a sucking chest wound. The demented noise was filtering around the diners but no one was paying attention. ...”The music? We call it didge-Ital... dig-ital, D.J.-Ital... Mash it up right here on the ship.” Yeah. They were doing something awful to poor old Bing while he wasnt looking. He sounded like his head was made of sheet-metal.” - Islands in the Net, Bruce Sterling, 1988
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:52:37 +0000

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