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02/02/2018 · 1:11 pm

In The Beginning

Set the Wayback Machine for 1998. I was at Kinko’s, in the middle of the night, running off copies of Mike The Pod Comix #4 (the blue one).

Those aren’t fonts. I didn’t have a computer. They’re typefaces copied from a book of antique alphabets, then literally cut and pasted. The rest is my own lettering.

The fourth issue was a transitional one. Drop Dead, my “90’s comic book“, concluded in its pages, in lieu of a seventh issue. I reprinted the Liquid Paper Pirates and Squeeky Wheel Gets The Grease strips from FINK, as well as For Whom The Beef Jerks.

Oh, and for the first time ever, I did full frontal, stark raving nudity. (NSFW!!!)

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Tagged as 1988, 1990s, 1996, 1998, 2000s, 2008, 2018, Bad Religion, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, breasts, Cannibal Corpse, comic, comix, Drop Dead, Kinko's, Mike the Pod, Mike The Pod Comix, music, New Jersey, NSFW, Oingo Boingo, pre 9/11, Savannah, Sordid Hollow, strips, The B-52s, underground, Ween

04/27/2017 · 2:40 pm

Not The Nineties!

The May 2000 issue of The Last Laugh contained a do-it-yourself board game as its centerfold. It was called Not The Nineties!

I don’t know if anyone ever played it; I doubt it. The potshots are pretty brutal for a fun diversion. What can I say, the 1990s were actually pretty brutal themselves. The game provides a reasonably accurate simulation of trudging through ten unpleasant years.

(Printable game board included at the end of this article!)

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Tagged as 1990s, 1991, 1993, 2000, Beavis & Butthead, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, board games, Cheers, Comedy Central, Dana Carvey, David Hyde-Pierce, Drop Dead, Frasier, John Mahoney, Kelsey Grammer, Last Laugh, Mike Myers, O.J. Simpson, pre 9/11, Seattle, South Park, The Smithereens

03/06/2017 · 1:02 pm

PaRappa the Crapper

Long ago, in the Before Times, I was dating a woman with a very young daughter. I had not yet gelled as an artistic entity, and was in the process of learning that I’m really not cut out to be a father, even a surrogate one. This became apparent on two occasions. Both were attempts on my part to make a connection with a kid. Both failed hilariously.

The first was the purchase of a “children’s book”. I spent hours at Books-A-Million (down the block from Media Play) hunting for just the right one. It had to be colorful, clever, and not condescending. I refused to buy anything “kiddie”, on principle. It had to be something that enticed, thrilled, and sparked the imagination, like the books I read in my grade school library.

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Tagged as 1990s, 1996, 1998, Atari 2600, books, Can (band), Dance Dance Revolution, death, Gary Larson, Georgia, Masaya Matsuura, Media Play, music, New Jersey, PaRappa the Rapper, pre 9/11, Resident Evil, Rodney Greenblat, Savannah, The Far Side, Tomb Raider, toys, Transformers, videogames, women

03/03/2017 · 12:02 am

A Toast To Absent Friends

Imagine if legendary and revered comedian Bill Hicks hadn’t died in 1994.

Some people believe Alex Jones is really Bill Hicks. I am not among them.

What if- just hear me out- he supported Trump in 2016? How would that make you feel about him? What if he’d gone “right-wing”, pre- or post-9/11? Would he still be referenced in Tool songs?

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1983, 2012, 2016 election, 2017, 9/11/01, Al Franken, alternative comedy, Bill Hicks, Bill Murray, comedy, Comedy Central, Craig Kilborn, Dan Ackroyd, Donald Trump, Elvis Costello, Harris Yulin, Jane Curtin, Jon Stewart, Laraine Newman, laughter, movies, Phil Hartman, political correctness, pre 9/11, Sarah Silverman, Saturday Night Live, sellouts, stand-up comedy, The Daily Show, Tom Davis, Tool, Trevor Noah, Vincent D'Onofrio, whores

02/17/2017 · 1:51 pm

Channel FUM

I propose a concept for a new 24-hour network.

FUM. The Fucked-Up Movies Channel.

By watching FUM, you agree to the terms and conditions of the network. In short:

All the movies aired on this channel are fucked up.
If you get fucked up by watching it, too fucking bad.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1990s, 2000s, 2005, Bling Bling, Bumfights, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chloe Sevigny, Divine, Dr. Phil, Ewen Bremner, Gummo, Happy Campers, Harmony Korine, Indecline, John Waters, Keanu Reeves, Lars Von Trier, Las Vegas, movies, Nicolas Winding Refn, Ninth Cloud, pre 9/11, Sixtoo, underground, Willem Dafoe, YouTube

11/20/2016 · 2:25 pm

The Kook Who Sat By The Door

If I could go back in time 20 years, and tell my 24-year-old self that I’d be signing my own comics at Criminal Records in Atlanta’s Little 5 Points, I wouldn’t believe it. Mostly because at 24 I was incredulous about the feasibility of time travel.

Three years ago, in jail, more than one dude told me I looked like Bruno Mars. I don’t see it.

I’ve guested at comic conventions before, but this was Criminal Records. They’ve had an almost mythical status since the 1990s, and their old location (it’s now Stratosphere Skateboards, another local business I highly recommend), which I visited often even before I lived here. It had cartoons drawn on the walls by Skip Williamson, Evan Dorkin and Bob Burden, just to name a few. I want to say Patty Leidy was up there too, but I’m going on memory here. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 2000s, 2001, 2004, 2013, Atlanta, Baby Sue, Blab, Bob Burden, BUST, Carol Tyler, Cut Chemist, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Evan Dorkin, Georgia, Hunter S. Thompson, jail, Jim Goad, John Prine, Justin Green, Kim Deitch, Little 5 Points, MAD magazine, Marilyn Manson, Media Play, Mental Floss, Nabisco, Neil Gaiman, New Jersey, Okkervil River, Patty Leidy, Peter Kuper, pre 9/11, Rose MacGowan, Sally Cruikshank, Sam Viviano, Skip Williamson, Tori Amos, trigger warning, Trina Robbins, Ward Sutton, Will Sheff, women, Zap

07/25/2016 · 5:28 pm

The Sifl and Olly Show

A time slot on a major cable network is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, you couldn’t ask for a larger audience. On the other, you’re the property of the company store, and you bend to their whim.

For example, MTV aired Beavis & Butthead, but to pad out the episodes to sitcom-length, they inserted music videos with Mike Judge doing commentary in character. At the time, I could appreciate the necessity of this, being that ink-and-paint animation takes time to create. Still, it was obvious that the idea was cribbed from MST3K, and much of the music was unlistenable, or not worth the mockery.

MTV pulled the same jazz when they aired the extraordinary sock-puppet comedy The Sifl and Olly Show, from 1997 to 1999.

Videotape artifacts are subconsciously comforting.

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Tagged as 1990s, 1997, 1999, alternative music, Beavis & Butthead, comedy, laughter, Liam Lynch, marijuana, Matt Crocco, Media Play, Mike Judge, MST3K, MTV, music, pre 9/11, puppets, sock puppets, The Sifl and Olly Show, YouTube

07/09/2016 · 6:20 pm

When Broken Broke

From 1989 to 1992, all anyone knew of Nine Inch Nails was prettyhatemachine. Your opinion of that one album was your opinion of Nine Inch Nails.

Before Broken, NIN’s sophomore EP, you could be forgiven for thinking Trent Reznor was the heir apparent of electronic Goth, following the dark path of Joy Division and Depeche Mode. Reznor was the scion of a venerable HVAC company (founded 1888!), and probably spent much of his young life in the presence of gigantic, droning machines. “Industrial” was already wired into his veins.

For all your heating, cooling, and electro-goth needs!

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Tagged as 120 Minutes, 1989, 1990, 1990s, 1992, 1994, Adam Ant, alternative music, Bands I Useta Like, Charles Manson, Coil, depression, despair, DEVO, electro-industrial, electronica, Gaspar Noe, goth, Henry Rollins, hidden tracks, Irreversible, John Balance, metal, MTV, music, New Jersey, Nothing Records, parental advisory labels, Pennsylvania, Pigface, pre 9/11, Sharon Tate, suicide, synthpop, Trent Reznor, TVT

12/30/2015 · 1:19 am

They’re All Gonna Laugh At You!

I seldom forget a good paroxysm of laughter. For example, one of the best memories of my time working at the mall record store involves an album played after closing, one night in 1993. Myself and two other employees were doubled over, purple-faced, unable to breathe from laughing so hard. It felt like the skin at the base of my skull was going to split.

The album was They’re All Gonna Laugh At You!, and the man responsible was Adam Sandler.

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