Marxism: Highlights from Groucho’s FBI file
The other day I was refreshing my memory on Groucho’s LSD escapade with Paul Krassner, when it occurred to me that it might be beneficial…
Television Archives: 07/2016
Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey visits 60s right wing talk show
Watching Joe Pyne is interesting because he almost seems ahead of his time. Pyne was a broadcaster who had a series of panel talk shows…
Shit happens: Future Fox News anchor Shep Smith reports on the time GG Allin came to Florida
Whereas I am certainly no admirer of GG Allin–he brought nothing to rock and roll and may his soul rot in Hell–I admittedly LOL’d at…
Jerry Seinfeld tries to get his head around Genesis P-Orridge’s Pandrogeny Project
File under “two celebrity names you wouldn’t expect to hear uttered in the same sentence,” but here we are. This is fascinating simply because you’d…
‘William Shatner Live’: William Shatner pretends to be a serious actor, 1977
I was in a record store the other day when I noticed an LP I’d never seen before–a sealed copy of a 1977 album called…
Paul McCartney on the bust-up with Lennon
When The Beatles split-up in 1970 the music press divided the pop world into two camps: those for John Lennon and those against Paul McCartney…
Johnny Ramone compares the Clash to Joan Baez on Minneapolis TV, 1978
Local news stories about underground music can always be counted on to cluelessly pander to the paranoid grandparent demographic, which makes this 1978 Minneapolis public…