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Corydon Ronnau is known among lovers of deep scum for singing in Sissy Spacek, his ongoing grind-noise project with John Wiese. As Obstacle Corpse, Ronnau performs solo with one of two instruments he's invented: either the HIV (pronounced “hive”), a guitar with heavy springs that run over the pickups in place of strings, or the …
George (Ray Milland) is a desperate, hard-working exec suffering under the meaty thumb of his tyrannical boss, Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton). Janoth is an obese, hyper-meticulous schemer who could give C. Montgomery Burns lessons in wicked drollery; he actually docks the pay of one poor wretch who dares to leave a light on in a …
Okay, so Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott were asking for it by naming their latest mega-production Déjà Vu. These dudes aren't exactly paragons of innovation, unless taking rhetorical hysteria to awesome new heights counts. As the opening credits roll—by which of course I mean roll, zip, flicker, fade, zoom and swerve—you get a good solid smack …
Our superlative editorial assistant, Vickie Chang, published a thought-provoking article (Yellow Fever) on the fascination of some with Asian-American females. Unfortunately, it also functioned to provoke the thoughtless, whom she discusses in Your Fetish, My Life in the current issue. The internet message boards erupted with harsh criticism of the piece. On MensActivism.com (a “Men's …
In October 2005, Deanne noticed a strange smell in her Huntington Beach apartment. When she lifted up a board beneath her kitchen sink, she discovered a mess of damp, rotted wood, blackened with months, maybe years, of accumulated mold. After two months and 10 letters to her landlord, nothing was done, said Deanne, who asked to …
With the results of the midterm elections pretty much settled, liberals and conservatives can finally agree on one thing: the existence of a just and merciful God. Yes, while many secular Democrats are reconsidering their beliefs due to their gains in the House and Senate, Christian fundamentalists are joyfully anticipating the Rapture as illegal immigrants …
Dear Mexican: My fiancé is trying to learn Spanish so he can speak to my grandmother when we get married next month. Lately, he's been listening to CNN en Español to get an ear for the language. A couple of days ago, he told me that, after several weeks of seeing the channel, he noticed …
What up, Newport Beach! You guys are the best ever. Really, this girl on the left has got the most remarkable physique. Seriously. I didn't think it was anatomically possible, but if Malibu Barbie were real, this would be her. Tiny waist, skinny legs, skinny arms and uh, really impressive . . . yeah. I …
The gayest journalist besides Bruno has spent the better part of two years in his “Savage Love” column urging Pennsylvania readers to vote Senator Rick Santorum out of office. Savage went as far as naming the frothy mixture of lube and shit after the man. The results are in, and it appears Santorum is finished. …
With the Democrats taking the House and threatening to take the Senate at this hour, you might expect the Orange County GOP election night party at the Hyatt Regency Irvine to be a mopey affair. After all, a huge banner in the room proclaims this is “America's Most Republican County.” But, other than being about …
The racist-goosestepping-Stepford duo–Alan Mansoor and Wendy Leece–are outpacing the pack in the Costa Mesa City Council race with 11 of 70 precincts counted, according to the Orange County Registrar of Voters website. Elect two: Mansoor, 28%; Leece, 25.3%; Garlich, 21.1%; Scheafer, 17.4%; Burciaga, 5.3%; Bunyan, 2.8%. And in the saddest very early results of the …
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Overseas observers say we were sunk before we started: longtime political snipers at Moscow's eXile predict Republicans going two for two not so much because of fraud but because America gets the government it deserves, or deserves the government it gets, or both. Says editor Mark Ames: What makes us so confident? Dr. Johnson once …