"The Nomi Song"
The climax of the Klaus Nomi documentary, during which interviews with his collaborators and friends about Nomi's final days are spliced into a live performance of "The Cold Song" — "Let me, let me freeze again, to death." If the film hadn't closed with the far more upbeat (for a song about nuclear…

Mother of jabbering Christ, seeing that at the wrong age would've had me in a fucking institution. That sounds more like a seriously screwed up "Schiller's Reel" than one of their fake ads.

I used to have nightmares about Big Bird as a child, but in the nightmares, he levitated — didn't fly, just floated places like a feathered Zardoz head — and was bright red.

Bascule, it's short enough, so here's the intro to "Tabloid":

No motherfucker be callin' Dolemite snarky.

LET OFF SOME ZTEAM, HITLAH!

What a trip back through time that FAQ is. My early Internet diggings were spread between ASG and alt.tasteless.

Couldn't I just stick a gerbil up G. Gordon Liddy's ass and wait 6 months?

Wasn't that an alt.showbiz.gossip euphemism for a celebri-death? (E.g., "Chris Farley in the stereo cabinet.") It definitely traced back to a freeze-dried cat so ensconced among one's furniture.

He's bringing you a stocking full of Slack!

Keith, that homonym slippage began happening to me at the beginning of this year. I'd know it was "they're," and "their" would be typed. I thought it was just me. I guess this is what it feels like when doves cry.

What are you, chicken about admitting your love for the show, Guy?

It's a shame she won't take first prize in that beauty contest . . . but then again, who does?

Are those samples in "Unbelieveable" basically the last remaining chunk of Dice Clay's routine that hasn't decayed like some sort of leather-jacketed radioisotope?

Line of the film
Nixon's in the White House. He's trying to get his Irish setter to answer a command. The dog merely growls menacingly at Nixon's advance. Snarls Tricky Dick: "We've had that dog for two years, and he still won't come when I call him. Fuck 'em!!"