Christopher Lee’s many villain roles: Count Dooku and Saruman (top row), and Scaramanga and Lord Summerisle from The Wicker Man (bottow row). R.I.P. Christopher Lee, wonderfully evil movie villain, who recently died at the age of 93. You younger folks know him as Count Dooku from Star Wars: The Lesser Trilogy and Saruman from the Lord of the […]
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Once again, pornography steps in to save the day! Nearly thirty years ago, Hustler publisher, self-described “smut peddler”, and unlikely free speech hero Larry Flynt made free speech history when he won a court case in which televangelist Jerry Falwell sued him for libel and emotional distress. Hustler had published a cartoon that implied that […]
Click the photo to see the source. To celebrate the first Halloween in my new home, I can’t think of a more appropriate costume than the one pictured above. In case you don’t get the reference, it’s from the Simpsons episode where Marge, deep in the throes of a gambling addiction, forgets to make a […]
I spent most of Sunday afternoon at the “Ray Jay” — Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium… …but it wasn’t to watch a football game. Instead, I went to attend an event run by an industry that’s even more into shameless profiteering than the NFL. I went — of my own free will — to the Florida Signature […]
One of Apple’s less-remembered contributions to pop culture were the US Festivals, two multi-act musical and culture festivals sponsored by Steve Wozniak, Apple’s other co-founder. You probably last heard it mentioned in the “Homerpalooza” episode of The Simpsons, aired in 1996, when Apple was a struggling company: The 1983 edition of the US festival had 4 days of music, […]
And for completeness’ sake, here’s the Simpsons scene this came from:
A handy flowchart that summarizes a penitential’s rules for sex. Click to (ahem) engorge the image. According to The History Blog: Penitentials were handbooks listing many sins a confessor could be expected to encounter during private confession and the appropriate penances he should assign for each act (or the appropriate moneys the penitent should pay […]