I agree with the love for This Year's Model, but I think that a case could be made for either Armed Forces or Get Happy! as the easiest complete album entryway into EC for the uninitiated.

That's great. I guess kayfabe was pretty fucking strong in the North back then too :)
They say that little old ladies were often the most fiery fans in many of the original pro-graps strongholds.

Yeah, good point. Piper wanted to be hated like a true detestable heel and generally was (at least prior to They Live). The other guys you mention couldn't help but get over no matter how heinous they behaved because they were too cool to be booed for long.

They say it took over an hour to calm the crowd down enough for Flair, Ole and Arn to leave the cage. Kayfabe was strong in the south 30 years ago.

Yep, and no list of cool heels is complete without Piper and Mr. Perfect also.

My mind went straight to wrestling heels as well. I love NWA era Ric Flair-there has never been a more despicable and ingenious act than when Flair and the Horsemen broke Dusty's leg in the cage after the Dream helped chase off the evil Russians.

"Not you, Zaxxon, I ain't talking to you. You one of the good ones. Aiight? I mean there's white people made of gas, you know what I'm saying. Give me another space beer, Gleep-Glop."

Holy fuck! That's hilarious. I want to find the clown who claimed this is "the greatest basketball movie of all time" and strap them to a chair, prop their eyes open with painful metal doo-dads A Clockwork Orange-style, and force them to watch Hoosiers, White Men Can't Jump, Fastbreak, Hoop Dreams, He Got Game, and…

I know. I'm a screen-printer who wears an apron at work everyday and nobody ever offers to help me put it on. I could use a creepy Vogue writer to help me out.

They say the trick to chopper-fuckin' is to time your thrusts to miss the rotors.

About a month ago I fired up a Smodcast for the first time in probably 5 or 6 years and you couldn't be more spot on. It was awful. They were discussing that recent Canadian cougar attack where the guy punched the attacking cat to save his dog and the entire thing (or the half hour I was able to stomach before turning…

Making Movies is probably my favorite of theirs as well with Love Over Gold second (but criminally underrated by the public at large).

I'm listening to Love Over Gold right now. Great band.

Yes he is.

When I was a eleven a bunch of my neighborhood friends and I found a stash of graphic porn that our eyes were not prepared for (Club Confidential and Hustler and such) in an abandoned barn at the edge of the woods we always played in. Fun times.

"I remember when Arnold Rothstein fixed the Grammys back in 1919." -my senile Grandfather

The Bic lighter has got to be the world's most stolen item. I have had hundreds disappear over the years.

Or accidentally diagnose somebody from the sewage dept. with mumps based on a dick pic like poor Ann Perkins.

They want a D yet they refuse to show any full frontal male nudity. Prudes.

I think Nick Stahl's character had his ripped off, but, yeah…close enough.