Insane Clown Posse is an unabashed force for good in America today. They probably always were, most of us were just too busy making fun of their fans to realize that. This review was written the day after the hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse canceled the 2020 edition their infamous ‘Gathering of theContinue reading “Half of This Book is Brilliant: You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me by Nathan Rabin”
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The Version ‘Apocalypse Now’ You’ve Never Heard Of: The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
Ever since European men have ventured into parts of Asia, Africa and the Americas that they weren’t invited to, a certain trope has appeared in our collective memory that rears its head again and again in our fiction. A white man goes into the wilderness where he is unaccustomed, slowly goes mad and embracesContinue reading “The Version ‘Apocalypse Now’ You’ve Never Heard Of: The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer”
History’s Messiest Bitch Who Loved All The Drama: Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
In the early 2000’s, MTV Cribs kicked ass. Apparently that show is still on, I honestly had no idea. Back in the day though, looking at all the crazy nonsense celebrities filled their house with was like gawking at the richest freak in the sideshow. A person acquiring riches seems to breed a levelContinue reading “History’s Messiest Bitch Who Loved All The Drama: Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore”
No Dude, That Stripper is Totally Into You: ‘I Date a Hooker’ by Jeff Fischer
If you need to kill a weekday evening, I can’t recommend highly enough Chapo Traphouse co-host Felix Biderman’s excellent documentary, Fighting in the Age of Loneliness. It’s a fascinating history of the sport of MMA. It’s both a history of the sport as a whole and a philosophical discussion on sanctioned violence as anContinue reading “No Dude, That Stripper is Totally Into You: ‘I Date a Hooker’ by Jeff Fischer”
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