I love the Old Grey Whistle Test; you can find a lot of clips on You Tube. Sometimes I’ll have a bottle of wine and go down a rabbit hole on YT watching that, Midnight Special, Soul Train, etc. for hours.

Lone Justice performing “Working Late” on some MTV NYE show in the late ‘80s. Maria McKee just rips it up, all while wearing the dorkiest dress you’ve ever seen.

REM did a very cool version of “South Central Rain” on the original late Letterman show back in the early 80's. Probably on YouTube. Likely on ot their very 1st TV appearances.

Evangelicals are obsessed with punishment, and their only mission on this earth is to see the liberal, secular world punished for their independent, babykilling ways. Trump promised reprisals against liberals and brown people. That was enough for them.

Evangelicals are obsessively patriarchal people who crave male dominionship over women above all else. Trump quite loudly signaled during the campaign that he believed wealth and status gave him the right to impose himself on women’s bodies. That is the founding value of Evangelical Christianity. Powerful men have the…

I recommend this episode of With Friends Like These for more insight. Essentially it says that Evangelicals view Trump as a means to an end and have no concern for his character. http://art19.com/shows/with-friends-like-these/episodes/d40ebdcb-e319-41c3-bf05-79d7c8c8ae1f

Are... are you kidding? There was an RIP Newswire, and Kyle gave him a lengthy eulogy, too.

Since I can’t imagine Husker Du is on most current AV Club writers’ radar and since this is a vaguely 80s punk related thread.. RIP Grant Hart.

Agreed. It’s a real.. snafu? Fucked up situation? I wish there was a Vietnam-era word for this. 

The FBI classifies Juggalos as a “gang” but I don’t think so... they’re barely a minor threat.

Riot Fest (pretty great so far but not as good as years past). Brief-ish wrap up: