I never thought I would use that stupid meme, but THIS. Most this.

Vincent did that voiceover for Alice Cooper's the Black Widow. He describes the various things one goes through when bitten by a black widow, "shortness of breath, intense pain, paralysis", etc. getting more and more excited, then his voice becomes disappointed and sad, "and finally, uh, death" like he wanted the guy…

Love that Sabo story. Back when I was a San Francisco Giants fan, I saw the Giants play the Reds at Candlestick. Rick Rushel was pitching, and he was getting shelled in the first inning. I told my friend "if Sabo gets an HR, I'm leaving." Ding! The only game I ever left in the top of the first. Everybody hated that…

Great book.  Extremely well-researched, because Scientology is extremely lawyered-up, everything was triple fact-checked.

Has anybody read L. Ron Hubbard's SF books? I just got done reading "Going Clear" and he seems the epitome of this. But, most SF writers don't take these ideas and make a religion out of it.

Samantha is my favorite correspondent. Her persona is perfect for fake news. It's just my type of humor - a serious subject made stupid.

Liked for letting me know of the existence of the Delta Gamma Sorority letter. This…guy….is…awesome!

And the Welles original cut of the Magnificent Ambersons, the nine-hour version of Greed…yes!

If he's in the other place, he's sitting at a digitized multiplex with floors coated with dried Coke and sticky popcorn, teenagers kicking his chair from the back, the screen is too dark, sound is muddy, and the focus and frame are slightly off. He's forced to watch the latest Michael Bay epic with eyes peeled back…

Well sterotyping based on skin color doesn't work. If you read the article, he assumed "white privilege", when it wasn't really applicable in that case. And now we get more ill-formed blanket statements here - seemingly some hate for…what? punks? college kids? . Avclub usually has very smart posters, if it continues…

From California orange country here. I wasn't aware of golden showers, but carnal relations with livestock was a well-discussed topic before my teenage years. Not sure if anybody did it, but it was well-discussed.

On the west coast, there are the secondhand shops run by hipsters that buy the thrift store clothes and jack up the price. But there are some other charity-run stores that have good quality stuff at a good price. In San Jose there is Savers and St. Vincent De Paul. I still mourn the loss of Thrift Village in downtown,…

Thank you! Every punk I knew shopped at thrift stores, and quite a few of them didn't have privileged upbringings. Most fashion started from this! You took cheap clothes that had been tossed aside and made a thing, then designers take that style and jack up the price 1,000%. Almost always, people who shopped there…

No, that was me, but it sounds better that way when you speak it. He did a long harangue to some "far out" long-haired dashiki wearing hippie about taking trips, I shortened it up quite a bit. But the wrap-up was the same.

There is a story of some child actor who worked with him, she said he stunk of cigarettes and hair oil. But, add some Old Spice, and that's how everybody smelled back then.

He was the David Caruso of his time also - the well-timed punchline, minus the sunglass pull. "I know of a place where you can take thousands of trips. It's called the library".

Disagree here. Iraq was clearly a way for America to control the Mosul oil fields, and a way for Cheney's boys in Halliburton to make a pile of our tax money. Vietnam was more of an ideological war. To me, the common thread is that millions of innocent civilians died, thanks to us.

I didn't think about how slimy it was until I saw the things people say to make it less slimy. Well they weren't really related! Even though he was dating her mom, and she treated him like a father…oh.

(lights up smoke)

Shallow Alto is pretty much the capital of smug. I live in Oakland which is almost an entirely different world, and one that doesn't really allow smugness for very long.