09/15/2022 · 9:15 pm
Some say nostalgia is a trap; I believe, like most things in life, nostalgia is best enjoyed in moderation. Look around this site, clearly nostalgia is my bread and butter, admittedly in a satirical sense. But the negative aspects of nostalgia are like those of a nuclear reactor; when it’s bad, it’s bad.
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Filed under Bad Influences , Faint Signals , Nostalgic Obsessions , Saturday Movie Matinee , Thousand Listen Club
Tagged as 1980s , 1988 , 1990s , 1993 , chagrin , corporate crap , Dennis Hopper , Disney , Generation X , Nintendo , nostalgia , sellouts , Super Mario Bros. , video games
09/01/2020 · 9:01 am
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
04/02/2020 · 4:20 pm
VIDEO
Hey kids… you want a soundtrack That’s gonna make you feel tense? Let you express your frustration? Make ya scared, wanna run out and buy a gun?
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Filed under Bad Influences , Don't Know Don't Care , Faint Signals , Thousand Listen Club , Worst Of All
Tagged as 1993 , 2020 , 9-11-01 , despair , global pandemic , laughter , mainstream media , NYC , politics , Revolting Cocks , social media , Timothy Leary , Wuhan virus
01/01/2020 · 1:12 pm
How about that? It’s 2020.
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Filed under Bad Influences , Faint Signals , Girls of BIUL , Nostalgic Obsessions , Unfairly Maligned
Tagged as 1990s , 1991 , 1993 , 2000 , 2001 , 2001: A Space Odyssey , 2020 , America , Atlanta , Bands I Useta Like , Blade Runner , comic , Ian Svenonius , Little 5 Points , Nation of Ulysses , post-punk , Sassy magazine , Stanley Kubrick , strips , The Transformers: The Movie , Tim Green
11/01/2019 · 11:01 am
It just dawned on me that I fucked up and left the writing off the CD I’m holding in the final panel. I’m literally holding a square. It could be a bathroom tile for all we know. FUCK!!!
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Filed under Animation Analysis , Bad Influences , Comix Classic & Current , Faint Signals , Movies You Missed , Nostalgic Obsessions , Saturday Movie Matinee , Thousand Listen Club , Unfairly Maligned
Tagged as 1980s , 1981 , 1990s , 1991 , 1993 , Bands I Useta Like , Caddyshack II , Dan Aykroyd , Frank Zappa , Gallagher , Gloria Jones , Jane Curtin , Jay Maeder , John's Arm: Armageddon , Laraine Newman , Marc Bolan , Saturday Night Live
01/31/2019 · 3:11 pm
In 1993, Rhino Records released the two-volume hardcore punk compilation Faster & Louder , containing a cornucopia of gems from the golden age of the genre. The covers unfolded to reveal spectacular art by the great Gary Panter (above image, Jimbo ), and incisive liner notes that briefly break down every track, by Brooklyn record collector and writer Johan Kugelberg .
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Filed under Bad Influences , Don't Know Don't Care , Idiot's Delight , Worst Of All
Tagged as 1993 , 2016 , 2019 , Buzzfeed , CNN , Dead Kennedys , Donald Trump , Facebook , Gary Panter , Huffington Post , Jello Biafra , Johan Kugelberg , Keith Olbermann , MAGA , political correctness , politics , punk , Rhino Records , Social Justice Warriors , social media , spoken word , Star Wars , Twitter
07/10/2018 · 5:49 pm
This is an early strip and it ain’t that great. I feel that works thematically with the band in question. I mean, do you even remember who I’m talking about?
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Filed under Bad Influences , Comix Classic & Current , Faint Signals , Idiot's Delight , Nostalgic Obsessions , Worst Of All
Tagged as 1990 , 1990s , 1992 , 1993 , 1998 , 2004 , alternative music , Bands I Useta Like , Big Brother , breasts , Christopher Hall , college , corporate crap , Duke Nukem , Illinois , industrial , Jeff Tremaine , Jim Goad , Media Play , music , Nine Inch Nails , PlayStation , sellouts , Stabbing Westward , The Cure , videogames , Walter Flakus , whores
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