Some of you are KISS fans (right on!), others love House. You're big on Nigella Lawson, mystery novels and "Technical Guides to Forest Wildlife Habitat Management in New England." You're my readers and I luvs ya. Thanks for shopping through my Amazon links this Christmas. Ask and you shall … [Read more...]
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Sailer: ‘Buckley, an actual English public school boy, was a sort of John Lennon for American conservatives’
Steve Sailer’s asides are more interesting than many “real” writers’ entire columns… Buckley didn’t age particularly well. None of us do, but he had been such a spectacular figure of boyishness during the youth-obsessed late 1960s that the inevitable … [Read more...]
‘All of your favourite TV stars from childhood were actually terrible human beings’
This is now such an established truth that it has already calcified into bitter cliche. Yet more gruesome details emerged this year about the abuse … [Read more...]
The obligatory ‘Free Sex Pistols Christmas concert for kids’ post
DangerousMinds has the story: On Christmas Day, 1977, the Pistols … [Read more...]
Scared America: 8 Crises and Collective Panics of the 1970s
That 1975 illustration EXACTLY depicts the inside of my head when I was a kid. Exactly. [Read more...]
Besides being Italian, ‘Very few of those men had jobs’
I hate to disagree with the photographer and the model themselves, but if this photo is supposed to depict a woman feeling "empowered" and "having a … [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...]
‘It’s best to view the Monkees as your neighborhood musical collective’
From the comments: Specifically, a gang of the finest songwriters, producers, … [Read more...]
TCM Cult Movies for October
* Where's Poppa? (1970) is excruciating. There's "politically incorrect" and then there's incoherent. 1970s "sick" humor at its unfunny worst. However: Looking beyond the question of whether it's hilarious fun or just a string of sick jokes, Where's Poppa? is fascinating as a movie time … [Read more...]
‘I’m not here to slam ‘Erotica Nights…”
Then... why are you bringing up this non-story? Oh, I … [Read more...]
Hint: Not part of the 47%
Alas, America hasn't got as many people like this as it used to: “I’m an incidental hero,” … [Read more...]
From my inbox…
Hi Kathy I'm still impressed with the time in the early days when I emailed you to thank you for something wise you wrote, and you actually emailed a response. But [Read more...]