Not too long after Please Kill Me came out (mid '96), I was visiting Philly one Sunday afternoon and totally ran across the Please Kill Me book-signing on South Street at Tower Books. Legs McNeil was finishing up his talk (yes, he still listened to '70s punk & had Never Mind the Bollocks at home on his turntable) &…

"Poison Heart" is indeed a glorious, wonderfully touching & beautiful song with Joey's best vocals ever. Marky's aces on drums too. I can't listen to it today without getting a tear or two in my eye.

I think Joey's kinda cute.

I don't think the problem is that it's a Motorhead shirt per se, it's that it looks brand new and fits him awkwardly (too tight around the neck and too long on the arms, to be specific).

No
A picture is hung. A person is HANGED.

Funky but—OH CHIC

AVENUE B…
10 years ago. I thought that was his response to "idiot thugs with guitars"?

I don't know…
… about y'all, but I can't look directly at that screenshot of Portman without ending up with a little, well, jizz in my pants. Good lord.

Because you know how much kids these days love Boris Karloff movies.

It's what you would call a classic difficult decision!

There was an episode of Family Business, Seymour Butts's reality show, that showed the humiliation of a dude who thinks he can fuck on camera. He was some regular guy that knew Seymore, & kept bugging Seymour to put him in a porno until Seymore finally did. So the day of the shoot, this guy is surrounded by several…

I would venture that Hiaasen considers Skink smarter than himself. But point taken otherwise.

MOM!!!

Good Lord—King of Comedy is an absolute must-see. It might be the best thing Jerry Lewis ever did. Seriously. It's a 10 on the awkward moment scale. Imagine if Taxi Driver were a comedy…

Yeah, my girlfriend & I called those short novel titles too. She's big into King now & I'm an old-school King nerd, so we found the episode cute, but lamented the fact it only parodied his MOVIES, when Peter was supposed to be READING.

While it is certainly douche-y when people only talk about what they hate, how everything sucks, showing that they are the world-weariest of all world-weary douchebags, I think it's also important to sharpen your critical skills by articulating why you dislike something. "It's stupid" and "It's boring" don't count. My…

Wow, the Meany hate is good to hear. I worked in bookstores throughout the '90s and that seemed to be the most highly-lauded book from all kinds of people. And not once did I ever feel compelled to read it.

Ha, yeah, I reread my post and I thought, dammit, someone's gonna call me out on "seriously." But yeah, kinda, they did, c. mid- to late-'70s. Not seriously as in Velvet Underground or Bob Dylan seriously, of course, but certainly no one felt the need to dump out their copy of Alive! because of something Gene said.

Kiss
Gene Simmons has been devolving now for so long it's hard to believe anyone could ever have taken Kiss seriously. Sure, "Strutter" and "God of Thunder" are fun, and Kiss was the butt of some good jokes in "Role Models," but after the Terry Gross interview I think a LOT of people wanted to retroactively cleanse…

It's all the Colonel's fault. What a truly hateful, despicable carny huckster that man was.