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10/04/2016 · 6:53 pm

Charles Addams

In the 1960s, there were two unusual homesteads on television. One was monstrous, the other creepy and spooky. Both had excellent opening titles music.

Lovely type treatments and title cards, too.

The Munsters was easy to comprehend, for the most part; it was a show about a family of classic movie monsters (hence the pun). Father Herman was the great Fred Gwynne dolled up as a friendly Frankenstein’s monster; wife Lily and Grandpa were vampires. Son Eddie (Butch Patrick) was the wolf-boy, with a prominent widow’s-peak that ensured I would be humiliatingly likened to him, and daughter Marilyn was the freak, with no monstrous qualities whatsoever. They all lived in a spooky mansion on 1313 Mockingbird Lane. Who knew or cared about the genetics involved in such a lineage? Continue reading →

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions

Tagged as 1930s, 1932, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1991, Alfred A. Knopf, Carolyn Jones, cartoons, Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, Family Guy, Fred Gwynne, Halloween, John Astin, movies, New Jersey, Raul Julia, The Addams Family, The Munsters, The New Yorker

09/19/2016 · 10:12 am

Thrills: A Retrospective

The life of a hardcore junkie.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, acid, Bands I Useta Like, Brad Garrett, Disney, Fight Club, Independence Day, Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Kelsey Grammer, Mike the Pod, movies, New Jersey, Optimus Prime, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Boondocks, The Phantom Menace, thrills, Transformers, Tyler Perry

09/17/2016 · 3:09 pm

The Power Of Michelles

Not to put too fine a point on it, but in my experiences, girls named Michelle tend to be extra powerful.

As a dude, I’m not meant to understand it too deeply. I don’t know if spelling it with one “l” or two makes a difference. What I do know, is that if you value your soul, you do not mess around with girls named Michelle.

It would be impolite of me to get personal on this matter, so allow me to utilize a public example, and a shining one: Michelle Jenneke.

Michelle “Shelly” Jenneke is an Australian hurdler and model, who won a silver medal for the 100m hurdles at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. She won the 100m hurdles at the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships to qualify for the Rio Olympic Games. She received worldwide media attention in 2012 for her pre-race warm-up dance.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Girls of BIUL, Uncategorized

Tagged as 1990s, 1999, 2012, 2016, athletes, Bruce McCulloch, Dan Hedaya, Dick (1999 movie), Harry Shearer, Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Jenneke, Michelle Williams, movies, music, Olympics, The Beatles, viral video, Will Ferrell, women

09/15/2016 · 5:50 pm

Digital Diaspora

diaspora: a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic locale. Diaspora can also refer to the movement of the population from its original homeland.

There’s a chance, being that you are using the Internet, that you are experiencing an intangible emptiness, a desire to fulfill a need you didn’t know you had.

You are far from alone. This is normal.

Spoiler: they hatefuck.

Many of us used the Internet around the year 2000 because it supplied things we couldn’t find elsewhere. Easy and plentiful pornography, hurtful humor, forums and blogs brimming with lolcows; all the schadenfreude one could stand.

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Filed under Don't Know Don't Care, Idiot's Delight, Site Stuff, Uncategorized

Tagged as 2010s, ALF, Brett Easton Ellis, Captain OG Readmore, corporate crap, despair, Die Hard, ennui, Ghostbusters, Internet, movies, old internet, sellouts, smartphones, smoking, television, Transformers, whores

09/10/2016 · 3:25 pm

Career Immolation: A User’s Guide

They say there is no such thing as bad publicity. Of course there is, when the public asks;

“Whatever happened to that guy?”

And then the public remembers, “Oh yeah. That happened.”

(l-r:) Glenn Humplik and Tom Green, with one of Canada’s accursed “milk bags”. Hopefully I won’t be legally pressured to remove this photo.

In the late 1990s, MTV gave Canadian public access personality Tom Green his own show. It was a raucous, prank-filled half-hour wherein Green literally abused and humiliated every single person he encountered, while affecting an oblivious, addled mien. It was for the most part very funny. Continue reading →

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Filed under Animation Analysis, Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Late To The Party, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee, Worst Of All

Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 4chan, Andy Kaufman, Anthony Cumia, Artie Lange, Austin Powers, Billy Joel, Billy West, Canada, comedy, corporate crap, Drew Barrymore, Freddy Got Fingered, Howard Stern, Jackie Martling, Jay Roach, laughter, metal, Mike Myers, movies, New Jersey, NYC, prank calls, radio, Richard Christy, Robin Quivers, Ron Howard, Saturday Night Live, sellouts, Shrek, Sirius XM, So I Married An Axe Murderer, The Jerk, Tom Green, trolls, Whitest Kids U Know, whores

08/21/2016 · 4:58 pm

Animation Analysis: Heavy Metal

When analyzing or criticizing animated feature films, it’s important to keep three factors in mind:

The talent
The resources
The date of production and release

Production designer: the late great Michael Gross, who gave you National Lampoon Comics and the Ghostbusters logo (for a movie Ivan Reitman directed that you might have heard of).

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Filed under Animation Analysis, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, O'Shloktoberfest, Saturday Movie Matinee, Thousand Listen Club, Unfairly Maligned

Tagged as 1980s, 1981, Angus McKie, Animal House, animation, Bernie Wrightson, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, breasts, comix, Cornelius Cole III, DEVO, Donald Fagen, Elmer Bernstein, Eugene Levy, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Frank Frazetta, Harold Ramis, Heavy Metal, Hey Good Lookin', Iron Maiden, John Candy, John Vernon, Journey, metal, Michael Gross, Moebius, movies, National Lampoon, NSFW, Percy Rodriguez, Ralph Bakshi, Richard Corben, Riggs, Rodger Bumpass, rotoscope, Sammy Hagar, Star Wars, Stevie Nicks, The Transformers: The Movie, Watership Down

08/19/2016 · 7:53 pm

A Wronging Endorsement

In the latter half of the 1980s, just about every teenage guy wanted to be Michael J. Fox.

Kari Michaelson AND Nancy McKeon- ROWR!

He had indomitable charisma. He had charm. He even made voice-cracking kind of cool. He was likable yuppie Alex P. Keaton on NBC’s sitcom Family Ties, and spastic teen time-traveler Marty McFly in the Back To The Future trilogy of movies.

Then in 1991, after Brian DePalma’s Casualties Of War, Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s Disease. Continue reading →