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Author: Richard Metzger Archives: 08/2013

Jaw-dropping shit sandwich: Philip Michael Thomas of ‘Miami Vice’ was the Kanye West of the 1980s

At one point during his career–let’s assume rather early on, shall we?–Miami Vice actor Philip Michael Thomas coined the affirmation acronym “EGOT,” which stands for…

Richard Metzger
Aug 30, 2013

‘Searching for Steve Ditko’: Spider-Man’s reluctant co-creator (and the Ayn Rand connection)

The name Steve Ditko probably means very little to you if you aren’t a comics fan, but if you are, then the name is well…

Richard Metzger
Aug 28, 2013

WASTED Richard Nixon talks, slurs his words to Ronald Reagan on the telephone, 1973

Richard Nixon is quite clearly drunk as a skunk (unless he took ‘ludes!) in this amazing LOL-worthy recording of a telephone conversation with California governor…

Richard Metzger
Aug 21, 2013

‘They’ll Be Laughing in Moscow and Beijing’ over Scotland Yard’s idiotic Snowden blunder

British Labour MP Tom Watson wrote a scathing must-read essay for nsfwcorp.com on L’affaire Miranda and the news that some boneheads from Scotland Yard thought…

Richard Metzger
Aug 20, 2013

Meet Anton Kraskovsky, the brave Russian newscaster who came out on live television

Back in May, a Russian newscaster, Anton Kraskovsky, was fired from his job at KontrTV for coming out on live TV, on a government-backed cable…

Richard Metzger
Aug 14, 2013

‘Ethel Merman of the apocalypse’: Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke’s mind-blowing Faustian bargain

Russian composer Alfred Schnittke’s chaotic modern classical music, a style he called “polystylism,” became widely known to Western audiences in the 1980s. He is considered…

Richard Metzger
Aug 12, 2013

‘Australia’s Sarah Palin’ doesn’t ‘oppose Islam as a country’

If you think our conservatives are idiots–and, of course, they are–meet ‘Australia’s Sarah Palin,’ staggeringly stupid far-right candidate, Stephanie Banister. Via Raw Story: Banister, who…

Richard Metzger
Aug 9, 2013

Serge Gainsbourg as Salvador Dali

“Ee’s SURREAL!” Both above photo and the below video are via the Melody Nelson 33 1/3 Twitter feed. Darran Anderson’s Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody…

Richard Metzger
Aug 8, 2013

‘My father is a CIA clone’: The day the paranoid conspiracy theorist held a newscast hostage

A clip of one of the more extraordinary moments that has ever taken place on a local newscast is currently zooming up the charts at…

Richard Metzger
Aug 7, 2013
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