Looking at Noel Black films as an allegory of the suicide of the west by William Chad Bowers

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Looking at Noel Black films as an allegory of the suicide of the west Skater Dater 1965 Pretty Poison 1968 Jennifer on my Mind 1971 Noel Black’s Skater Dater, Pretty Poison, and Jennifer on My Mind can be read as an allegory for a culture drifting toward self-destruction: young, privileged characters with freedom, comfort, and possibility who nevertheless chase danger, alienation, and nihilism as if boredom were more intolerable than ruin. The films feel like snapshots of a civilization that has everything materially but lacks conviction, meaning, or restraint. So it experiments with its own collapse for stimulation. In that sense, Black isn’t moralizing; he’s observing a Western psyche that mistakes freedom for emptiness and, unable to articulate purpose, plays recklessly at the edge of its own undoing.

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talking about automatic, systematic and enigmatic. Talking about automatic writing, death, systems, speech chips, gorf, midway, the illusion of reality, illusion of personality in gorf, death of a neighbor

Self Service - Mid December 2025

TITFOS - Self Service - 12-25 by William Chad Bowers

The Age of Self Service

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Chritsmas Season Humor - Sometimes you just need to listen to something that is almost funny

Christmas Season needs these jokes that are so bad they are good by William Chad Bowers

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1968 - The Incredible True Facts of Space - TITFOS- Podcast

1968 by William Chad Bowers

1668-1968 - Canon by Pachabel was missing

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Holidays, Anniversaries, and Birthdays by William Chad Bowers

memories of these events

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TITFOS - The Colors episode 2025 by William Chad Bowers

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Copies

Copies Copies Copies by William Chad Bowers

a copy of a copy

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TITFOS pen - found in the wild

I like to say, that with a pen like that, one could write the French Revolution. 

Thanks to Cooper for sending in this pic of the pen the oil change place wanted him to sign with.

If you would like a TITFOS pen. Let me know.

You could draw the greatest picture ever drawn with such a pen. 

Memories of School Days, Work Days, Play Days

capturing the wild, messy days of growing up in Mobile, Alabama, in the late ’70s and early ’80s. At Lad and Lassie preschool, young Chad revels in the chaos of wooden playhouses, a pedal-powered merry-go-round, and Joy, a towering kindergartener who ruled the playground like a lighthouse among ants. His antics—popping caps under his nails, coloring blue leaves to irk Mrs. McDonald, or pocketing a Fonzie button only to toss it in guilt—brim with kid-sized rebellion. Square dancing in gingham, dodging hornets, and playing “Smear the Queer” at recess defined his early years, alongside betrayals by his snitchy friend Tracy. At Dodge Elementary, Chad struts as a Safety Patrol hero, busting bathroom spies and pondering cryptic tile patterns. Pop culture—Atari, MASH, VHS tapes—mingles with neighborhood wars, rickety longboards, and tales of a spooky barn. Chad’s voice, warm and cheeky, turns these scraps of childhood into a vivid, heartfelt romp.

IF Labs DBZ / DB design lab

 Photo from 2000 or so, Old FUNimation office in North Richland Hills .  Design notes on screen for DB Bulma figure and print out for notes on little Goku-sans hair, these would be given back to Toxic Mom studios for sculpting changes and when we

Had it where we thought it was right, we would send to Toei for approval. Larger “2-Up” Battle Damaged Goku in hand was a paint master for approval. Battle Damaged Goku and most of the IF Labs movie collection were sculpted by Igor Fernandez at Infinite Mindz studios.