While I have plenty of issues with the MPAA’s ratings system, I’m still a bit sad that Jack Valenti has died at 85. Valenti was part of the LBJ powerset, and he instituted the current Motion Picture Association of America rating system. This system, although not overtly censorship, has resulted in some pretty troubling self […]
Jack Chick has been publishing evangelical comic-book-style religious tracts, known as “Chick tracts” for several decades. I grew up in a house with an ironic collection of these — one of my father’s coworkers apparently left them in all the breakrooms at the plant, where my father would pick them up and bring them home […]
In honor of the fact that I’ve had “Baby Got Back” stuck in my head since last Friday, the above is some footage of a 1980 production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance featuring a hilarious Victorian-style rendering of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s famous single [via BoingBoing]. Note that young Kevin Kline is playing the pirate […]
Jonathan Adler’s “Pop” line is a charming set of uh … let’s call them candy jars, shall we? I’m not sure when I first became aware of Mr. Adler, but I know I fell in love with him around the time this line came out. Now, this may or may not be a direct result […]
I’ve been listening to the Grinderman album a lot, and I have to say, it sounds more or less exactly how I would anticipate an album by a band involving Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to sound. If you like Nick Cave and/or Warren Ellis, you will likely enjoy listening to Grinderman. (And, actually, if […]