You too can own a promotional Ramones ‘switchblade’ from 1977!
In January 1977 the Ramones released album number two, entitled Leave Home. It was another high-quality slab of straight-ahead punk in the acknowledged Ramones style.…
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‘Michael’s Thing’: New York City’s once essential queer city guide (as seen on HBO’s ‘The Deuce’)
Early on in the most recent episode of HBO’s The Deuce, which is set in New York City in 1971, Vince Martino (one of the…
The Male Figure: Bruce of Los Angeles and the perfection of midcentury beefcake
When you ponder improbable destinies for high school chemistry teachers, it’s likely that almost everyone reading this would instantly think of Walter White, who went…
Leonard Nimoy speaks out: Why Spock approved of LSD and ‘dirty movies’
Throughout his life, the actor Leonard Nimoy appeared to be always open to discussing nearly everything in his life. He answered questions frankly and honestly…
Steven Spielberg predicts the psycho-delic future of today in 1971’s ‘Los Angeles: A.D. 2017’!
I had heard about this impossible-to-see episode of The Name of the Game–a cutting edge television show that ran for seventy-six 90-minute episodes from 1968…
The Teen Angel zine lovingly documented Chicano culture for decades
From 1977 to 2000, one of the strongest voices in the zine community was an artist and writer going by the name “Teen Angel.” Several…
Honey, The Smartphone Ate the Kids: Comic yet chilling illustrations of our social media world
Well, we knew this was going to happen. We were warned often enough but did we listen? Did we heed the warning given out in…
Utterly bizarre commercial for an all-crying 900 phone line
There’s a certain unadorned beauty to the voiceover pitch in this commercial for a deeply puzzling 900 number consisting solely of shots of people crying…
Number 666: The Aleister Crowley issue of Flexipop!
I learned many things during my recent conversation with David Tibet (Current 93 and related projects) and Youth (Killing Joke, the Orb, the Fireman, Brother…
Remember when David Lynch used to do weather reports on the Internet?
A few days ago the BBC released its list of the top 100 movies since the year 2000, representing the consensus view of a whopping…