With two new projects along with my usual weekly stuff for Taki's and PJMedia -- plus some movies I want to watch -- there will be little to no blogging for a few days. Being this busy naturally means that, like most writers, I'm actually goofing off for as long as possible, doing pretend … [Read more...]
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‘The Killer Crush: The Horror of Teen Girls…’
The crush was a private thing that happened in my room, but it was also a shared activity between friends. It didn't matter much that Emily's crush was a haggard guy in his mid-50s, or that Mary's was dying as the Titanic sank, or that my romantic rival was Gwen Stefani. Our crushes weren't about … [Read more...]
‘First let me say that Topper’s lateness had nothing to do with drugs…’
The Baker remembers Bologna 1980: The band’s security man (Ray Jordan) who was driving him, simply lost his way (years before GPS or cell phones), so no one had any idea … [Read more...]
How the Sex Pistols Saved Christmas (video)
DangerousMinds: On Christmas Day, 1977, the … [Read more...]
The Steve McQueen of Punk: It’s ‘the bastard’s’ birthday
“He was just there, looking fantastic…the bastard.” Paul Simonon: Making everyone else feel hopelessly inadequate since December 15, … [Read more...]
This Machine Kills Vacations
Hey, remember when Meat Loaf was on SNL? Oh, sorry. Had you managed to erase that part of your brain? There was no reason for Meat Loaf to be as bad as he was that night. He'd been in Hair on Broadway, along with the touring company, and did a long stint with Rocky … [Read more...]
Author of groundbreaking ‘Punk rock is Jewish’ book now a big star in Germany
TheTablet: You’ve heard of ‘big in Japan?’ ” Steven Lee Beeber said with a laugh. “I’m big in the other former Axis power.” Beeber’s book [Read more...]
Everyone shocked that Johnny Carson is the guy I told you he was
Many of the stories in the new Carson bio are new to us, because the author was Carson's lawyer for almost 20 years and he was there when the incidents went down -- and stayed mum … [Read more...]
‘Of course, in England 2013, you can get arrested for writing such things on the web’
Says the loyal 5FF reader who sent me the link to this comment under the Rude Boy (1980) upload: Divide and conquer distracts from the people uniting and fighting the REAL problems. … [Read more...]