The many flavors in your ear.
The Libertarian Party of Texas in conjunction with The Leonard Peikoff Foundation and REASON Magazine presents: RONNY A Rock Opera Featuring: TREY PARKER, vocals. TED NUGENT, guitar. PENN JILLETTE, bass. NEAL PEART, drums. Act I, Part 1: “No Reason to Be Over-Optimistic” The “Overture” plays, previewing the musical themes …
UNHELPFUL MNEMONICS 1. Every Grotesque Ballardian Describes Fascism 2. Malicious Vegetables Elude Motorist Junkers’ Stronghold? Ultimately, No. 3. Klonopin Is Salacious, Shalimar 4. Thirty days hath September, quickly grasp my throbbing member, slide your hand ‘pon thither and yon, then consult this sheet of paper I have written the number of …
The more you know about a subject, the less likely you are to enjoy a fictionalized treatment of it. Historical dramas, biopics, and ripped-from-the-headlines stories are often unsatisfying to those very close to the real-life people and events; too much must be glossed over, left out, abridged, or sweetened to …
Program notes for the first half of this evening’s performance at the Hutton Gibson Center for the Performing Arts: ACT 1, SCENE 1: a hill outside of Jerusalem we will later come to know as Golgotha. As the “Overture” plays, Jesus, smiling for the only time during the performance, cavorts …
Dearest Ranjit, Greetings from America! How are you? How is your family? How is your uncle Jayanta? You should really speak to him about seeing a physician, as I am told that the gout can develop into something rather serious and unpleasant. Do you remember how poorly it turned out …
I’ve never particularly cared for those ubiquitous lists of “Rules for Writers”. (If I did, I’d probably present this one as more or less definitive.) Luckily for me, I am not much of a writer, and no one is sniffing around this site in hopes of getting a hot tip …
“Hello, DynoTech Solutions, can I help you?” “Yes, I’m calling about a problem I’m having with my external hard drive.” “Can I put you on hold for just a moment?” “Sure.” ” … ” “Uh…hello?” “Yes, sir?” “Are you there?” “Yes, sir, can I help you?” “Yeah, I was calling …
FREAKS, FAGGOTS, DRUNKS & JUNKIES: a musical fantasy based upon the songs of GG Allin Act 1 Flashback: Lancaster, N.H., 1975. A young Kevin Allin is celebrating his 18th birthday and his parents, a pair of well-off New Englanders, present him with a gift he’s dreamed of since his freshman …
This is, of course, the time that we — and by we, I mean the fraternity (am I right, fellas?) of culture critics, publicly self-disgraced and privately self-abased, look back on the year that was and present, once and for all, our picks for the objectively greatest music and films …
Welcome to Rapsylvania! I’m your tour guide, Sharon, and I’ll be sharin’ with you — ha ha — some of the sights, sounds and stories of this, the palatial mansion of Spin-L.P., the biggest-selling recording artist in the history of hip-hop. There is no food or drink on the tour, …
ADDICTION SOLITAIRE. Can you make all cards match in descending suits before the junk sickness weakens you? A delightful romp through the worlds of both heroin abuse and online card games. BLACKJACK. Play a game of “21” with a slick Las Vegas sharpster. Later, after you lose, sneak up behind …
WHY ARE JOKES, BIT ONE: QUIZ TO DETERMINE WHICH MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN HOLY TRINITY YOU ARE, IF YOU ARE ONE 1. My favorite food is: (a) manna (b) figs (c) I don’t eat 2. On the weekend, I like to relax by: (a) smiting the children of Israel with …
“Welcome once again to BookTalk, where my guest, inexplicably, is Tyrell Hokus. He has been our guest twice before, under a policy by my previous booking agent of not bothering to find out anything about potential interview subjects. It’s a policy I had hoped would be reversed, but we don’t …
Each year at this time, the Grady McPhailey Foundation releases a list of the annual recipients of the McPhailey Foundation Scholarship Grant, popularly known as the ‘Grady Train’. Mr. McPhailey, heir to the McPhailey Ear Shortener fortune, spent his 72 years on Earth attempting to be a poet. Although he …
LARGEST FINANCIAL COMPENSATIONS I HAVE RECEIVED FOR WRITING THIS BLOG 1. $280,750 from Henry Kissinger: for keeping my mouth shut 2. $55,000 from Paragon Electrical Sex-Novelties of Daegu, South Korea: for dropping the lawsuit 3. $1,000 per week for the duration of the blog from Raymond “Benzino” Scott: for continuing …
