Well baptize me in wine!
2011: 14 Big Beat beaten years ago...rock & roll hero Billy Miller posted this righteous bit!
2011: 14 Big Beat beaten years ago...rock & roll hero Billy Miller posted this righteous bit!
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Well baptize me in wine!
2011: 14 Big Beat beaten years ago...rock & roll hero Billy Miller posted this righteous bit!
2011: 14 Big Beat beaten years ago...rock & roll hero Billy Miller posted this righteous bit!
Dec. 6, 1955: That great HOF Honus Wagner, died on this day *70* years ago.
Here: Even though struggling on his deathbed, the Flying Dutchman still got a kick out of signing "Burt Mustin" to autograph hounds.
Here: Even though struggling on his deathbed, the Flying Dutchman still got a kick out of signing "Burt Mustin" to autograph hounds.
December 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Dec. 6, 1955: That great HOF Honus Wagner, died on this day *70* years ago.
Here: Even though struggling on his deathbed, the Flying Dutchman still got a kick out of signing "Burt Mustin" to autograph hounds.
Here: Even though struggling on his deathbed, the Flying Dutchman still got a kick out of signing "Burt Mustin" to autograph hounds.
1964: Ed Sullivan on the Stones
"If things can't be handled, we'll stop the whole business! We won't book any more rock & roll groups & we'll ban teens from the studio. I didn't see the Stones until the day before the broadcast. .. I was shocked when I saw them!"
Here: Bill Wyman as Ed Sullivan.
"If things can't be handled, we'll stop the whole business! We won't book any more rock & roll groups & we'll ban teens from the studio. I didn't see the Stones until the day before the broadcast. .. I was shocked when I saw them!"
Here: Bill Wyman as Ed Sullivan.
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
1964: Ed Sullivan on the Stones
"If things can't be handled, we'll stop the whole business! We won't book any more rock & roll groups & we'll ban teens from the studio. I didn't see the Stones until the day before the broadcast. .. I was shocked when I saw them!"
Here: Bill Wyman as Ed Sullivan.
"If things can't be handled, we'll stop the whole business! We won't book any more rock & roll groups & we'll ban teens from the studio. I didn't see the Stones until the day before the broadcast. .. I was shocked when I saw them!"
Here: Bill Wyman as Ed Sullivan.
From 2017:
Fox & Friends' adultery-addicted, Christian dip-sticker & dumber than a can of Heinz Baked Beans, G.I. Jabroni Pete Hegseth with The Who playing as a show intro...and his secretary of indefensible response was:
Hegseth: "𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐎?! I don't know The Who. I never followed The Who!"
Fox & Friends' adultery-addicted, Christian dip-sticker & dumber than a can of Heinz Baked Beans, G.I. Jabroni Pete Hegseth with The Who playing as a show intro...and his secretary of indefensible response was:
Hegseth: "𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐎?! I don't know The Who. I never followed The Who!"
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
From 2017:
Fox & Friends' adultery-addicted, Christian dip-sticker & dumber than a can of Heinz Baked Beans, G.I. Jabroni Pete Hegseth with The Who playing as a show intro...and his secretary of indefensible response was:
Hegseth: "𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐎?! I don't know The Who. I never followed The Who!"
Fox & Friends' adultery-addicted, Christian dip-sticker & dumber than a can of Heinz Baked Beans, G.I. Jabroni Pete Hegseth with The Who playing as a show intro...and his secretary of indefensible response was:
Hegseth: "𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐎?! I don't know The Who. I never followed The Who!"
Dec 2016: "The BBWAA passed a measure today mandating that all HOF ballots be public starting in 2018 It remains voluntary for this election"
I took full blame
BTW: Outside of opening a door for Yippies to sneak into a AMVETS Convention. Fucking with the BBWAA HOF vote was my top anarchist moment!
I took full blame
BTW: Outside of opening a door for Yippies to sneak into a AMVETS Convention. Fucking with the BBWAA HOF vote was my top anarchist moment!
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Dec 2016: "The BBWAA passed a measure today mandating that all HOF ballots be public starting in 2018 It remains voluntary for this election"
I took full blame
BTW: Outside of opening a door for Yippies to sneak into a AMVETS Convention. Fucking with the BBWAA HOF vote was my top anarchist moment!
I took full blame
BTW: Outside of opening a door for Yippies to sneak into a AMVETS Convention. Fucking with the BBWAA HOF vote was my top anarchist moment!
It's a little known fact that before he became a jowly juggernaut for the jingoists, Newt Gingrich once came in for a reading for the head alien role in "Invasion of the Saucer Men".
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It's a little known fact that before he became a jowly juggernaut for the jingoists, Newt Gingrich once came in for a reading for the head alien role in "Invasion of the Saucer Men".
Dec. 6, 2023: One of my faves, Vic Davalillo, gone two years now.
Ol' Blew Eyes John Sterling: "Ichiro Suzuki reminds me of Vic Davalillo, except Davalillo couldn't put the ball in play."
09.8% Strikeout Percentage - Vic Davalillo
10.1% Strikeout Percentage - Ichiro Suzuki
Ol' Blew Eyes John Sterling: "Ichiro Suzuki reminds me of Vic Davalillo, except Davalillo couldn't put the ball in play."
09.8% Strikeout Percentage - Vic Davalillo
10.1% Strikeout Percentage - Ichiro Suzuki
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Dec. 6, 2023: One of my faves, Vic Davalillo, gone two years now.
Ol' Blew Eyes John Sterling: "Ichiro Suzuki reminds me of Vic Davalillo, except Davalillo couldn't put the ball in play."
09.8% Strikeout Percentage - Vic Davalillo
10.1% Strikeout Percentage - Ichiro Suzuki
Ol' Blew Eyes John Sterling: "Ichiro Suzuki reminds me of Vic Davalillo, except Davalillo couldn't put the ball in play."
09.8% Strikeout Percentage - Vic Davalillo
10.1% Strikeout Percentage - Ichiro Suzuki
I have no idea what this is...but YOU tell him Disco Sucks!
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I have no idea what this is...but YOU tell him Disco Sucks!
Dec. 5, 1981: 44 yrs ago....early period (1978-79) Maxwellite hanger-on, Jeffrey Lee Pierce returns, now with his Gun Club!
From the essential Gun Club archive page:
Bob Bert (later of Sonic Youth) attends the show."...which is odd, seeing that Bob attended most of the early shows at Maxwell's!
From the essential Gun Club archive page:
Bob Bert (later of Sonic Youth) attends the show."...which is odd, seeing that Bob attended most of the early shows at Maxwell's!
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Dec. 5, 1981: 44 yrs ago....early period (1978-79) Maxwellite hanger-on, Jeffrey Lee Pierce returns, now with his Gun Club!
From the essential Gun Club archive page:
Bob Bert (later of Sonic Youth) attends the show."...which is odd, seeing that Bob attended most of the early shows at Maxwell's!
From the essential Gun Club archive page:
Bob Bert (later of Sonic Youth) attends the show."...which is odd, seeing that Bob attended most of the early shows at Maxwell's!
Dec 5, 2022: Trumpian quack Kirstie Alley...gone 3 cheery years now.
I will always remember her by this beaut from a local Jersey woman's obituary...only 3 weeks before Alley's death.
"Elke vowed to take her visceral distaste of Kirstie Alley with her to the grave."
I will always remember her by this beaut from a local Jersey woman's obituary...only 3 weeks before Alley's death.
"Elke vowed to take her visceral distaste of Kirstie Alley with her to the grave."
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Dec 5, 2022: Trumpian quack Kirstie Alley...gone 3 cheery years now.
I will always remember her by this beaut from a local Jersey woman's obituary...only 3 weeks before Alley's death.
"Elke vowed to take her visceral distaste of Kirstie Alley with her to the grave."
I will always remember her by this beaut from a local Jersey woman's obituary...only 3 weeks before Alley's death.
"Elke vowed to take her visceral distaste of Kirstie Alley with her to the grave."
1992: KICKS Magazine #7: Chicken-twistin' hero Hasil Adkins reviewing the Jerry Lee Lewis movie "Great Balls of Fire!" (1989 - Jim McBride) as only he cans!
"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡!"
And that is all the people needs to know!
"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡!"
And that is all the people needs to know!
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
1992: KICKS Magazine #7: Chicken-twistin' hero Hasil Adkins reviewing the Jerry Lee Lewis movie "Great Balls of Fire!" (1989 - Jim McBride) as only he cans!
"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡!"
And that is all the people needs to know!
"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡!"
And that is all the people needs to know!
Dec. 4, 1980: 45 Factorial yrs ago...I snipped this out because we were going to the Andy Warhol's Exposures superstar scrapper at B. Daltons, but basement booze party got the better of us & we ended up not going.
I saw it (autographed) listed on eBay for $2,800 and that's a lotta tomato cans, bub!
I saw it (autographed) listed on eBay for $2,800 and that's a lotta tomato cans, bub!
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Dec. 4, 1980: 45 Factorial yrs ago...I snipped this out because we were going to the Andy Warhol's Exposures superstar scrapper at B. Daltons, but basement booze party got the better of us & we ended up not going.
I saw it (autographed) listed on eBay for $2,800 and that's a lotta tomato cans, bub!
I saw it (autographed) listed on eBay for $2,800 and that's a lotta tomato cans, bub!
Nothing but nothing pissed off anti-punk, Trumpian skunk, ex-pal JJ Smuggo more than when I showed him this radical 1978 ad for the Jam's "This Is the Modern World" album.
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Nothing but nothing pissed off anti-punk, Trumpian skunk, ex-pal JJ Smuggo more than when I showed him this radical 1978 ad for the Jam's "This Is the Modern World" album.
1977: A Bobby Ocean bit...sorta like a cartoon version of John Belushi going from Stephen Bishop to Fear.
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
1977: A Bobby Ocean bit...sorta like a cartoon version of John Belushi going from Stephen Bishop to Fear.
Mega MAGA righty/lefty Phil Mickelson: All that is wrong with America in one cheap chip shot tweet.
Headline the other day: The Inexorable Fall from Grace of Phil Mickelson
Mickelson denies charges he ‘tipped off’ investors on impending $200m venture as his complex legacy is dissected by critics"
Headline the other day: The Inexorable Fall from Grace of Phil Mickelson
Mickelson denies charges he ‘tipped off’ investors on impending $200m venture as his complex legacy is dissected by critics"
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Mega MAGA righty/lefty Phil Mickelson: All that is wrong with America in one cheap chip shot tweet.
Headline the other day: The Inexorable Fall from Grace of Phil Mickelson
Mickelson denies charges he ‘tipped off’ investors on impending $200m venture as his complex legacy is dissected by critics"
Headline the other day: The Inexorable Fall from Grace of Phil Mickelson
Mickelson denies charges he ‘tipped off’ investors on impending $200m venture as his complex legacy is dissected by critics"
Riley Gaines while America loses.
Mark Teixeira in politics...like a "Blowfish" out of water.
Mark Teixeira in politics...like a "Blowfish" out of water.
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Riley Gaines while America loses.
Mark Teixeira in politics...like a "Blowfish" out of water.
Mark Teixeira in politics...like a "Blowfish" out of water.
Dec. 1977: Just remember, on the day the Ramones released their fab "Rockaway Beach" single...hookie-douchie, prog-nippled anti-punk Scott Muni was busy welcoming freakin' Olivia Newton-John and her record label to the WNEW-FM (WHERE ROCK DIED YEARS AGO!) studios!
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Dec. 1977: Just remember, on the day the Ramones released their fab "Rockaway Beach" single...hookie-douchie, prog-nippled anti-punk Scott Muni was busy welcoming freakin' Olivia Newton-John and her record label to the WNEW-FM (WHERE ROCK DIED YEARS AGO!) studios!
Didn't this Elton John/Ed Sheeran Christmas song/video release coincide with that bizarre Dec. 2022 outbreak of random people shoving well-honed obsidian knives into their ears and eyes?
Thought so.
And if ever there was an anthem for starting an actual War on Christmas, this is friggin' it...
Thought so.
And if ever there was an anthem for starting an actual War on Christmas, this is friggin' it...
Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas [Official Video]
YouTube video by Ed Sheeran
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Didn't this Elton John/Ed Sheeran Christmas song/video release coincide with that bizarre Dec. 2022 outbreak of random people shoving well-honed obsidian knives into their ears and eyes?
Thought so.
And if ever there was an anthem for starting an actual War on Christmas, this is friggin' it...
Thought so.
And if ever there was an anthem for starting an actual War on Christmas, this is friggin' it...
At the end of Douglas Sirk's "Hitler's Madman" (1943)...a ghost from the destroyed village of Lidice staggers out of a death crowd and warns the viewers:
"𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲. 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭!"
"𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲. 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭!"
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
At the end of Douglas Sirk's "Hitler's Madman" (1943)...a ghost from the destroyed village of Lidice staggers out of a death crowd and warns the viewers:
"𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲. 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭!"
"𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲. 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭!"
December 2, 1984: So 41 Ashburning years ago...Yo La Tengo played their very first gig as they opened for the string-bending ferocity of Antietam at Maxwell's.
Or as my pal Smuggo said when he first saw Ira and Georgia were in Yo La Tengo:
"𝐈𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥'𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝?!"
Or as my pal Smuggo said when he first saw Ira and Georgia were in Yo La Tengo:
"𝐈𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥'𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝?!"
Yo La Tengo/Feelies - Roadrunner
YouTube video by Rich Schneider
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
December 2, 1984: So 41 Ashburning years ago...Yo La Tengo played their very first gig as they opened for the string-bending ferocity of Antietam at Maxwell's.
Or as my pal Smuggo said when he first saw Ira and Georgia were in Yo La Tengo:
"𝐈𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥'𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝?!"
Or as my pal Smuggo said when he first saw Ira and Georgia were in Yo La Tengo:
"𝐈𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥'𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝?!"
The War on Christmas just got real, folks!
And flesh-mutilating Mustard Gas is no laughing matter!
And flesh-mutilating Mustard Gas is no laughing matter!
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The War on Christmas just got real, folks!
And flesh-mutilating Mustard Gas is no laughing matter!
And flesh-mutilating Mustard Gas is no laughing matter!
Dark Shadow Government
Dec. 2, 1924: Eerily, Alexander Haig and Jonathan Frid were both born on the same exact day.
Dec. 2, 1924: Eerily, Alexander Haig and Jonathan Frid were both born on the same exact day.
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Dark Shadow Government
Dec. 2, 1924: Eerily, Alexander Haig and Jonathan Frid were both born on the same exact day.
Dec. 2, 1924: Eerily, Alexander Haig and Jonathan Frid were both born on the same exact day.
Being that he had sooo many side pieces...I'm not the least bit surprised that Joe Pepitone was once a caricature model for them.
December 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Being that he had sooo many side pieces...I'm not the least bit surprised that Joe Pepitone was once a caricature model for them.
Another find in my '70s stuff...
Where were you in '73?
Andrew Sarris' quicky 1974 Village Voice review of "American Graffiti" (1973 - Sith Lucas).
"Over-sold Wolfman Jack" for the win!
Where were you in '73?
Andrew Sarris' quicky 1974 Village Voice review of "American Graffiti" (1973 - Sith Lucas).
"Over-sold Wolfman Jack" for the win!
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Another find in my '70s stuff...
Where were you in '73?
Andrew Sarris' quicky 1974 Village Voice review of "American Graffiti" (1973 - Sith Lucas).
"Over-sold Wolfman Jack" for the win!
Where were you in '73?
Andrew Sarris' quicky 1974 Village Voice review of "American Graffiti" (1973 - Sith Lucas).
"Over-sold Wolfman Jack" for the win!
Sabermemory - 2009
Maury Allen: "For my money, Derek Jeter is the game’s No. 1 player, now and forever. Sorry about that, Babe."
Doomsday with Maury.
Maury Allen: "For my money, Derek Jeter is the game’s No. 1 player, now and forever. Sorry about that, Babe."
Doomsday with Maury.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sabermemory - 2009
Maury Allen: "For my money, Derek Jeter is the game’s No. 1 player, now and forever. Sorry about that, Babe."
Doomsday with Maury.
Maury Allen: "For my money, Derek Jeter is the game’s No. 1 player, now and forever. Sorry about that, Babe."
Doomsday with Maury.