Monthly Archives: January 2012

Can’t Get Much Cooler Than This Fonz: Fonseca Bin No. 27

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

What do Arthur Fonzarelli and Bin No. 27 have in common? Both are feisty and irrationally cool, both dwarf their categorical co-stars in popularity, both have pinged in and out of cultural relevance—and prior to the early seventies, nobody had … Continue reading →

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Drugs ‘N’ Stuff: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Posted on January 14, 2012 by

I used to make fun of songs like ‘We Are The World, We Are The Children’, but you know what?  Every once in a while, who among us hasn’t taken a moment from our hectic daily grind to glance wistfully … Continue reading →

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How It’s Made®. This Episode: Babies, Buzzes and Hangovers

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

Maybe once in a lifetime—if you’re lucky—somebody invents something that truly rocks the planet, and it’s fair to suggest that Ron Popiel had nothing to do with any of them.  If you’d lived in the disease-ridden slop-pit destined to become … Continue reading →

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Att. Winos: Turns Out It’s Brain Buds More Than Taste Buds

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

In this vale of toil and sin where your head grows bald but not your chin, there are very few universal experiences.  One of them is this:  You’re in your car, at the club or listening to music in your … Continue reading →

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Care And Feeding Of Your New Pet Peeve—Today’s Lesson: Booze

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

So, you woke up Christmas morning so excited that you soiled your jammies!  You ran out to check beneath the tree and found that Santa had left you a brand-new, snuggly-huggly, squeezable-pleasable Pet Peeve!  Good on ya, Junior!  But don’t … Continue reading →

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Elvis And Wine: Red, White And Blue Suede Shoes

Posted on January 8, 2012 by

Of all High Holy Feast Days celebrated throughout the liturgical year of America’s one true religion—Orthodox Schlockologyism—today is the most sacred. ‘For the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which … Continue reading →

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Beat The Muddles: Drinks from the Beatnik Generation

Posted on January 7, 2012 by

January 6, 2012 would have marked the 77th birthday of John ‘The Hipster of Joy Street’ Wieners, an influential lyric poet who was one of the lesser known writers of the Beat Generation. Like any self-respecting beatnik, Wieners was born … Continue reading →

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