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Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives: The Peasant

This documentary is the first segment of a multi-part series hosted by Monty Python’s resident medievalist, Terry Jones. It discusses the lot of the peasant in the Middle Ages and finds that, surprisingly, it wasn’t all that bad.

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“This is OUR rock.”

What are these, otters? I like the one saying something to the camera.

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Albert Goldman and Hunter Davies on Beatles Biographies

This is a two-part news program from 1989, where the author of the muckraking “The Lives of John Lennon” (just released at that time) debates Hunter Davies, the author of “The Beatles” authorized biography from 1968. Davies is very charming, and makes some very good points about Goldman’s tendency to veer off into—well, the nicest [...]

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Truly, Words to Live By

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Devastator Update!

Ten days and $822 to go for The Devastator, a proposed humor quarterly based here in LA under the stewardship of Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows. I met with Geoffrey and Amanda yesterday, and they seem like just the people for the job, so anybody out there in favor of print humor should go donate [...]

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Breasts = Earthquakes? Get ready for the “Boobquake”!

In the wake of a Muslim cleric’s declaration that earthquakes are caused by licentious women, a WMD-owner named Jennifer McCreight has decided to put the theory to the test. Today, April 26th, she has asked the world’s women to show as much cleavage as possible and see what happens next. What a fantastic idea: it’s [...]

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More Beatle-breakup talk

Just a head’s up: there are some really neat comments happening over at Hey Dullblog, the Beatles team-blog I’m part of. For anybody interested, the comment thread is here.

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Why the Beatles Broke Up: A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Shirley Tilloch over at Beatles Til I Die has written a very interesting post originally inspired by one over here at MG/Dullblog. This post of mine began as a lengthy comment to her post…until I got to the point where it was too long and went off in too many directions. So apologies in advance [...]

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Welcome back, Summer of Soda!

A while back, Kate and I were in the habit of going to Galco Soda Pop Stop in Eagle Rock, loading up the Honda with weird-ass sodas from all around the US (and occasionally the world, too), and then drinking them to see what we thought. Then she graduated USC, and I had to write [...]

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The Realist Archive Project

In 1958, Paul Krassner founded a “magazine of freethought and satire” called The Realist. Around four decades—and lots of unlikely adventures—later, Krassner closed up shop. Though Krassner’s probably better known for his activities as a Yippie, The Realist is his true legacy and, I would argue, infinitely more substantial. The lovechild of Harvey Kurtzman and [...]

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