Slacker anecdote: by 1991 I had moved to Houston. Rice University radio, ktru had a contest promoting the movie before it came out. They asked listeners to write a 25 word essay about why they were the biggest slacker. The winner would get to meet Richard Linkletter who no one knew who he was at this time: Slacker hadn’t been released yet. My future husband would win this contest by writing “cornflakes” 25 times.

He liked to say that the true slacker would have never even sent the 25 word essay in because in that day you had to get an envelope, address and stamp it and stick it in the mail. Far too many steps past the first conceptual idea.

He got a bus ticket to Austin and $9.17. 91.7 is the FM dial of the college radio.

My husband took a cab to Linkletter’s apartment - that place that used to be on Nueces in the movie - where he slept on a blow up matress for the night. Linkletter took him out to some pizza place, they drove around and looked at places he liked in Austin. Linkletter gave him a little promotional faux pap smear that they had made.

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