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Area 51 at the Santa Monica Public Library
Okay, so right off the bat know: they didn’t talk about aliens. Which was a shame, because the crowd at the Santa Monica Public Library was Ready for Contact. They were, in fact, aching for it, them and their kids, and got kinda belligerent when it didn’t happen. (After all, 64 years is a long [...]
Continue reading...Go the Fuck to Sleep
Monday, May 16, 2011
This morning, Boingboing.com alerted me to an interesting development: a tongue-in-cheek parody of a children’s book called Go the Fuck To Sleep has reached #1 on Amazon.com, before it’s even been published. Apparently pirated PDFs are circulating, and people are preordering it like it’s crack. The publisher has been smart enough to max out the [...]
Continue reading...Video from the UCB: “BP Spills Coffee”
Sunday, June 27, 2010
This very funny video from UCB.com wrings laughs out of the Gulf oil spill by portraying BP as a bunch of gibbering subnormals. Is it funny? Unquestionably. But they should've taken that next step.
Continue reading...Will The Beatles be forgotten?…only if YOU forget them
Friday, June 4, 2010
Jim Emerson in The Chicago Sun-Times has written a column about how disorienting it was to realize that the 17-year-olds at a recent high school graduation did not recognize a reference to the Beatles tune “Drive My Car.” As a result, Emerson wonders whether The Beatles’ days are numbered as a relevant item of our [...]
Continue reading...Creed Shreds 3: NSFW
Friday, May 28, 2010
Oh I know: you come here expecting documentaries about World War I, stuff like that. But there’s another side to me, the side that appreciates using Pro Tools to put mindless profanity into the mouth of the lead singer from Creed. On this Memorial Day weekend, remember that this is why so many brave men [...]
Continue reading...YouTube, Downfall parodies, and me
Thursday, May 6, 2010
If you’re reading this, you doubtless know about the “Downfall meme”—a running joke on the internet where a segment of the 2004 movie “Downfall” is used to express real or feigned outrage at something important or not so. Bruno Ganz, playing an embunkered Adolf Hitler, freaks out at his generals not over the conduct of [...]
Continue reading...The Realist Archive Project
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Then, They Came for the Zebras, and I Did Nothing Because…
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
[Just for fun, I'm practicing reading my stuff aloud. If you can stand a flub or two, here's me reading this piece.] Can I just say, “Thank God for the internet”? Without the world wide web, who knows how long it would’ve taken me to learn that “UK Restaurant Is First to Serve Zebra Pizza”? [...]
Continue reading...Weird Al biopic
Thursday, March 25, 2010
I had a girlfriend once who loved Weird Al Yankovic. I mean, like, saw him in concert. Several times. Of course it didn’t work out. What does it say when we all know the hackneyed forms of media so well we can parody them exactly, but stop there? This is a key problem with much [...]
Continue reading...Documentary: John and Yoko’s Year of Peace
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
I can’t figure out how to embed it, but you can watch the documentary here. I’ve always felt that John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s activities for peace were a bit cringeworthy—a misapplication of solution to problem, as if human aggression were the product of people being merely petulant, or distracted or forgetful. While I’m not [...]
Continue reading...At last! It's here!
For 30 years, Ravin fans wondered: What if Tom Larkin had survived? Now, the story can be told.
Mixing alternative history, hardboiled noir, parody and satire, Life After Death for Beginners is a must-read for every Beatles fan. "A cross between The Rutles and Three Days of the Condor. I loved it."—Jonathan Schwarz
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