Category Archives: Unfairly Maligned

10/14/2021 · 10:14 pm

I Sees Sus Sauce

I’ve noticed that it’s become de rigueur to over-criticize everything (other than personal politics, mandates, foreign governments, or presidents not named Trump), particularly when it comes to the Sopranos prequel. People are so desperate to appear savvy and informed that they will over-analyze things, thereby nullifying the joy of discovery. You talk yourself into hating, in the futile hopes of besting the haters. You’re afraid to love something that someone else might hate.

To prove my point, I’m going to stick thoughts into your head that will make you hate your favorite things. Let’s start with The Sopranos!

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, Unfairly Maligned, Worst Of All

Tagged as 2020s, 2021, David Chase, Disney, Futurama, Goodfellas, hatred, Internet, Marvel, political cartoons, political correctness, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, stereotypes, Stonetoss, The Many Saints of Newark, The Sopranos, Yosemite Sam

09/11/2021 · 9:11 am

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

“Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in ‘t!”
-William Shakespeare, The Tempest

For the past twenty years, I’ve tried to get over it. I’ve tried to make sense of it.

I can’t.

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Tagged as 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 9/11, 9/11/01, China, corporate crap, death, depression, despair, Donald Trump, Family Guy, God, laughter, money, news media, political correctness, religion, social media, South Park, The Simpsons, Twitter

07/07/2021 · 7:07 am

Museless

I have now passed the half-way mark on my least productive year in a decade. Even when I was practically homeless and actually starving a ways back, I was producing more work than I have this year. I know what the problem is.

That itself is the problem.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Girls of BIUL, Nostalgic Obsessions, Unfairly Maligned, Worst Of All

Tagged as 200s, 2010s, 2020 election fraud, 2020s, 2021, Alexandra Daddario, Bands I Useta Like, breasts, depression, despair, Elvira, Georgia, Harvey Weinstein, Howard Hughes, John's Arm: Armageddon, Lesley Ann Warren, movies, music, political correctness, Queen Latifah, Sarah Polley, social media, television, Tessa Fowler, vaginas, whores, women

02/19/2021 · 2:19 am

Acceptance

*Pictured: The serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know who should go fuck themselves.*

In case you missed it, Bands I Useta Like (the comic strip, not the site you are currently reading) is over. I am forced to accept that a printed periodical outlet for the strip I have drawn for the past twenty-three years no longer exists. This is the theme of the 2020’s; forced acceptance and submission. Historically, I do well with neither.

So, in the spirit of the current times, I am accepting my own flaws and shortcomings as personal advantages, and forcing them on the rest of society and the world. As a pipe-tooting sailor once said, I am what I am.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Girls of BIUL, Site Stuff, Unfairly Maligned, Worst Of All

Tagged as 2020 election fraud, 2020s, 2021, apology culture, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, cancel culture, censorship, CNN, Danny Bonaduce, Disney, Donald Trump, Hollywood, laughter, Mental Hell Online, Mike the Pod, Monty Python, Pat Benatar, Paul Winfield, political correctness, politics, Shia LaBeouf, social media, tacos, The Terminator, tobacco

11/07/2020 · 11:17 am

Led Zeppelin

swan song
A final performance, product, or accomplishment before someone or some-thing stops creating work or products, as due to death, retirement, closure
etc. From the ancient belief that swans issue a beautiful song-like sound just before they die.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Thousand Listen Club, Unfairly Maligned

Tagged as 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2020, 2020 election fraud, 9/11, America (country), comic strips, despair, Donald Trump, Garbage Pail Kids, hard rock, Hunter S. Thompson, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, political correctness, Robert Plant, sellouts, Transformers, whores

09/01/2020 · 9:01 am

Screamin’ Lederhosen

Where do I even start with Ren & Stimpy? How do I handle the Faustian tale of its fallen creator, John Kricfalusi, without getting overly personal and acrimonious?

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Filed under Animation Analysis, Bad Influences, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Idiot's Delight, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club, Unfairly Maligned, Worst Of All

Tagged as 1980s, 1988, 1990, 1990s, 1993, 1995, 200 Motels, 2000s, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2012, alcohol, animation, Bands I Useta Like, Beavis & Butthead, Bill Wray, Billy West, Bob Camp, breasts, Buck Owens, Canada, Chris Reccardi, Daws Butler, depression, Flash, Greg Burson, Hanna-Barbera, Jim Smith, John Kricfalusi, King of the Hill, Klasky-Csupo, Liquid Television, Lynne Naylor, Matt Groening, Michael Pataki, Mike Judge, MTV, Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, Nickelodeon, Prudence Fenton, Ralph Bakshi, Ren & Stimpy, Robert Smigel, rockabilly, Saturday morning cartoons, Saturday Night Live, Scott Huml, sellouts, Spike TV, The Refreshments, Tracey Ullman, Vanessa Coffey, Vincent Waller

07/04/2020 · 7:04 am

X

The mid-1980’s Twilight Zone was actually really good. It had an appropriately creepy vibe right from the start, aided greatly by the reinterpretation of the classic theme music, courtesy of Merl Saunders and the Grateful Dead.

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club, Unfairly Maligned

Tagged as 1959, 1980s, 1987, 1989, 1990s, Boogie Nights, D.J. Bonebrake, EC Comics, Exene Cervenka, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, John Doe, Julianne Moore, Merl Saunders, Patrick Swayze, Patti Smith, punk, Road House, rockabilly, Sam Mendes, Thora Birch, Twilight Zone, X

06/16/2020 · 6:16 am

Father’s Dead

Mark my words. As soon as it becomes feasible, the father will be erased from the family unit forever. The word and the concept will be abolished and nullified. You can bet your life savings on it happening in the next five years.

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Tagged as 2020, 2020s, America, Atlanta, Daffy Duck, death, despair, Father's Day, George Carlin, political correctness, politics, Portland, Seattle, sellouts, social media, Twitter, whores, women

02/08/2020 · 2:08 pm

Rap To Which I Do Listen

There’s an itch that rap music scratches that no other kind of music does. For this reason, I have a longstanding love-hate relationship with the genre. But the fact remains; I always come back to it. Once I realized I was listening to it alone, when there was no one around to impress, I figured I enjoyed the form enough to jabber about it sincerely.