Some people mood-alter by swearing. You see (and hear) it a lot in AA meetings, for example. This actual doctor agrees. … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2014
Frankenstein’s Family Tree: A Dark Corners Special
Because f*ck vampires. I'm serious. A huge number of Dark Corners man-hours went into making this. Impressive! … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn sings Ted Nugent’s ‘Cat Scratch Fever’. That is all.
My fantasy cover versions? Marilyn Monroe singing "All Tomorrow's Parties." Janis Joplin doing "Fortunate Son." Joe Strummer covering "Lodi," or maybe the Bee Gee's "I Gotta Get a Message To You." Clay Aikin singing an album of "alt"/"retro" 80s tunes: some Psychedelic Furs, Simple … [Read more...]
Ann Coulter: Hysterical media tell us to calm down about Ebola
Ann Coulter writes: Nannies rushed to grade schools to yank apples out of little children's hands, elderly married couples got tested for AIDS, and students at Ivy League colleges demanded that … [Read more...]
I owe so many drinks to so many total strangers. Thanks, internet!
Rude Boy (1980) gets put up and taken down on YouTube a lot. Between yesterday and this morning, somebody uploaded Rude Boy again so I was able to TubeChop the scene I wanted for [Read more...]
‘I Was a Communist For the FBI’ (1951) is on TCM this aft
I wrote about it here. Although it sounds like a gag to our post-modern ears, there really is a 1951 film called I Was a Communist for the … [Read more...]
‘Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park’ aired this night in 1978
The Projection Booth has a podcast about it, with "special guest KISS superfan (and Paul Stanley tribute artist), John Stockwell." … [Read more...]
John Derbyshire: ‘Is telepathy a thing we should hope for?’
No sooner did I write about The Power (1968), [Read more...]
‘How the pro-family movement helped spread gay marriage across America’
Steve Sailer on one of my favorite subjects: the occult weirdness of the SoCal hippie scene
And ties it back to Obama's mom and dad, and the president's EXTREMELY weird background. Steve Sailer writes: There exists an elaborate conspiracy theory that [Read more...]
‘The Power’ (1968), or: What the holy hell did I just watch?
For whatever dumb 20th century reason, TCM didn't have the Canadian rights to the pioneering portmanteau horror anthology, Ealing's Dead of Night (1945), which is a total … [Read more...]
My NEW PJMedia post: Can we stop calling Topper Headon ‘underrated’?
In response to my PJMedia colleague Allston's "Who Are Your Favorite Rock Drummers?", I mounted one of my hobbyhorses, to wit: How long can anybody be lazily described as "underrated" by hundreds of people, … [Read more...]