Americans have long found Japanese advertisements peculiar–the “Mr. Sparkle” commercial parody from The Simpsons (“I am disrespectful to dirt!”) is certainly an excellent representation of…
In April 1986, a terrible accident took place at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The event…
These cartoons are a bit like what you’d get if you combined Ziggy (already a bleak little production) and Eraserhead. The artist is Gypsie Raleigh,…
A bounty from the Internet! Some outstanding personage has uploaded the entire broadcast of the WSNS Channel 44 Chicago broadcast of the July 12, 1979,…
In 1978 Gary Numan, then still with Tubeway Army, did the vocals for a commercial for the English jeans manufacturer Lee Cooper. The commercial featured…
Isabella Ibarra at the Southeast Career Technical Academy deserves a big round of applause for these excellent compilations she put together featuring the patrons of…
John Alcorn’s “Uncanny in Cans” billboard seems to reference “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes” from the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds“ 7up has…
McLusky was one of the most important bands from the first decade of this century. They were from Cardiff, Wales, and it’s a bit of…
After several decades of jazz music mainly serving as something to dance to–as Wikipedia drily notes, “the association of jazz with sex is early and…
Royal Trux was a band that was always ready for the scold. At the very dawn of the slacker era, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema…