Avalanche Bob is the yodeling outsider musician promoting the ‘snowboard revolution’
If you’re a frequent listener of The Best Show, then you may already know Avalanche Bob. He’s one of those unknown “regulars” who relentlessly calls…
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Star-struck: Fabulous pages from a scrapbook of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Progress doesn’t always end in the best results. Take Hollywood. Once, this great movie industry was driven by women screenwriters like Anita Loos, Frances Marion,…
‘Benji Takes a Dive’: Watch America’s favorite canine become the first dog to scuba dive
Dogs have done some pretty stupid shit for our entertainment. Toto, Air Bud, Beethoven, Lassie, Spuds Mackenzie–they may have been famous film and TV canines,…
Here’s how to hack an election
Election hacking has been a pretty hot topic recently. Now that we know it is possible, you know, controlling the fate of a governed body…
‘Toy Porno,’ the video the Frogs made for Kurt Cobain
Dennis Flemion, Mark Arm, Kurt Cobain, and Jimmy Flemion (via Matador) When Everett True recalls watching “videos of puppet sex created by insane Midwest band…
(S)explicit collages subvert social media censorship of the right to bare flesh
America’s weird. Use a military grade weapon to slaughter a classroom of school kids and there won’t be no handgun ban. Post a nipple on…
I was a teenage Goth, Punk, Hesher, Hip-Hop, Raver: Photographs of fashionable youth from the 1980s
The 1980s encapsulated in one photo. If you remember the eighties, you were probably there. Big hair, bad music, and terrible fashion. Or was it…
Alice Cooper was in a long forgotten rock opera with members of The Who, Roxy Music & Moody Blues
Around 1974, Alice Cooper fully morphed from a group’s name to that of a solo artist. While Cooper’s fellow bandmates moved on to various solo…
‘The Vampire Happening’: Probably the weirdest blood-sucking fest you’ll see all day
During these cold dark winter nights, I’ve been catching up on some those still-to-be-read literary classics like Biggles Flies Undone, Where’s Dildo? and improving my…
Hip to be Square: A look at young men’s fashions from the 1960s
Most young men in the sixties didn’t look like Charlie Manson in beads and a kaftan. Most wore button-down shirts, drainpipes, and sported short hair.…