“Oscar Kiss Maerth is the author of The Beginning Was the End (1973), a pseudo-scientific book that claimed modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating apes. According to Maerth, this diet increased the apes’ brain size, sex drive, aggression, psychic ability and eventually caused insanity. Maerth offered no evidence for his theories, claiming only divine inspiration. Maerth’s book was an influence on the new wave band Devo, who referred to him in early interviews as ‘Author Kiss-My-Ass’.” — from Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia

DV,D = Don’t Vote, Devolve.

May 5th was the date The Coasters’ “Yakety Yak” was released on Atco. The guys had six Top Ten hits, but this was their only #1 ditty. One of their big appeals was the saxophone riffs of King Curtis. An amazing musician who…when Larry Brown (the future L. Russell Brown of “Tie [...]

“The Cross is in the ballpark” — Paul Simon [1]

Syl says, “Wouldn’t it be funny if you had an Abbott & Costello ‘Who’s on First?’ bit, wherein the players were all outsourced?” An interesting image, to me, with all sorts of sweet sounding names coming up to replace solid American ones like…. Say, hey, what about outsourcing the Iraqi Insurgency (so-called), moving outsurgency into vogue? How can we be a part of that team?

Let’s consider: Mike Whitney’s repeating the call for our defeat in Iraq which John Pilger publicly prayed for ages ago… from the field. Naomi Klein is making the rounds debating in favor of our immediate withdrawl. How about some creative thoughts vis-a-vis undermining efforts here at home? Efforts, ongoing, which keep the murderers in solid overtime pay.

by Richard Oxman

Perhaps I should have titled this “The Race Issue.”

I was probably the only person at Sandown [1] who had Fats Domino and Little Richard ditties playing in his head, when jockey Alan Honeybone and his mount came tumbling down January 19, 1957. My dad’s cronies had been telling me how notoriously difficult the railway fences were, positioned so close together on the far side of the track…earlier in the morning. But I had plenty of room in my teenraged brain to fantasize about the American rock ‘n rumblers before, during and after the Spanish entry, El Griego II, took a tumble that misty day.

May 4th the Ohio National Guard actually marched onto Kent State University and killed and maimed students. Murderer Nixon had announced that he had ordered U.S. troops into Cambodia during the Vietnam War…and students with a conscience actually decided to do something about it. Like go crazy…and stop business as usual. To join [...]

I never cared for amphibians, especially toads. Ever since my grammar school class read Kenneth Graham’s story for children (Wind in the Willows)…and I made the mistake of shouting out that the author must have modeled Mr. Toad after my grandfather. He also had been thrown into jail for stealing a motor car, disguising himself as a woman to escape. The teasing never stopped after that…till we relocated, made our escape…to another town.

I was reminded of toads the other day…and the contemptible people I think of whenever their image is invoked, when a story came down the AP wire concerning exploding toads in Germany.

Since the Grand Opening was postponed a few times… we gathered info on a number of dates (below). As a rule, we’ll focus on a single historical event…along with whatever “romantic” leads might exist. Please note that the inclusion of personal info here does not necessarily mean someone is on the make and/or [...]