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Can you write one WITHOUT stating the obvious?

Since I’ve only been contributing to YesButNoButYes for a tad less than a year, I don’t have a ton of wonderful posts to wade through for Retro Week, but I have contributed some videos that I’ll clump together for those who may have missed them the first time around. Today, the topic is “making fun of Star Trek and Star Wars.”

Today on the veg -- the mysteries of Easter Island

My first contribution to Retro Week is all about an honorary YesBut writer who brought new meaning to the the word disgruntled. In fact, if they didn't know who the Virginia Tech gunman was, I might have sent in an anonymous tip.

His name was Johnny Chicago, and in YesBut's early days, when we had about three comments per month, Johnny's were always the most entertaining. Johnny was pissed off about almost everything, but his rage had a certain flair that you don't see in the average rants. We enjoyed Johnny so much, we wanted to make him a permanent contributor, but couldn't because we thought he'd get us on some gov't watch list, or something. Johnny left the blog as abruptly as he entered (subtlety was never his strength) and our communal blood pressure hasn't been as high, since.

Last year, Scaramouch gathered some of Johnny's best lines into one post, for all readers who hadn't had the pleasure. So let's take one last look at the very best of an early YesBut friend...Johnny Chicago.

(And Johnny, if you're still reading, it was Scara who wouldn't let you on, the rest of us were all for it. So please stop with the fake anthrax packages. The police have better things to do.)

- Rosie tapes video response wearing doo-rag, grateful dead bracelet and peace shirt. So go plant a tree.
- Apple furious over new sex toy called iGasm. I'm shocked...there's a sex toy YesBut hasn't covered yet?
- Trashball...for only 25 cents, you get a genuine piece of something someone else threw out...art, I guess.
- Coming soon to Times Square...a 6 legged cow and 24 shrunken heads. No, not the Church of Scientology.
- And the Real Time season finale featured a Smorgasbord of Suck, and some good advice for Jimmy Carter.

Remember.