Archive for June, 2008
Satanism Today: Minicast
This special mini-episode of Satanism Today features Reverend Kevin Slaughter interviewing Scott Broderick of The Lindbergh Baby.
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[Enter Any Jeff Spicoli Line Here]
My birthday is in six weeks. I will be 40. And none of these people are invited to my party.
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Todd writes: But perhaps the most interesting thing I learned was that Tibbie and a friend, when they were young, briefly ran a business selling blasphemously altered crucifixes as fashion accessories that grew in popularity so quickly, they basically had to shut the operation down for lack of management time/resources. And the best part of the story is that their business, Manic Satanic, was visited by an unpleasant, black-clad bald man who turned out to be an official representative of the local Church of Satan, come to make sure they weren’t using the Sigil of Baphomet on their accessories — not because this would violate ancient and powerful rules of black magic but because the Sigil is a registered trademark of the Church of Satan. Ah, capitalism!
Rusting_Wings writes: Counter-culture has become simply culture. How entirely depressing. The one refuge one has to be different is to subvert the subversion – be quietly strange. Even if it’s always the quiet ones, no one expects – yet – for the secretary with her bleach-blonde hair, immaculate suit, and tasteful jewelry to be a devotee of the Church of Satan. No one expects the butch dyke with the power tools to be a poet.
monstertoke writes: So this is an idea for a sculpture I want to make, that took about 4 minutes to make in photoshop, and really looks quite bad, but I digress. It will be about 7 feet high or so (the cross would be the highest point). I was researching the Church of Satan today as well and my personal favorite Rule of the Earth (out of the 11 Rules of the Earth, written by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey) is ‘When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop, and if he does not, destroy him.’ That has nothing to do with this sculpture Idea though. Anyway, I don’t know what to make the big ass rock formation out of…
And someone with astounding taste in books poses this question. Thank you for the free promotion… much like this person.
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Rectum? Damn near put him in jail! Oh, wait… – MGP
from The Smoking Gun: JUNE 23–Meet Jeffrey Barrier. The Ohio man allegedly used a cell phone camera to snap photos of a naked woman at a tanning salon Saturday and then hid the phone in his anus in a bid to thwart police. Standing on a chair, Barrier, 41, took the photos at Cincinnati’s Aloha Tanning, where a 35-year-old woman was “in the nude in a tanning room,” according to a Hamilton County Municipal Court affidavit. When cops later confronted Barrier, “he kept denying any involvement of the incident” and claimed to not have a camera. However, a second search of the suspect turned up the camera. As noted in a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office report, Barrier “did hide evidence in his anus.” Barrier was charged with disorderly conduct for taking the photos and obstructing official business for hampering a police investigation. Barrier, due in court today, is free on $1500 bond.
1 commentPaddles and Joysticks… But Not So Naughty
Long before the time of Grand Theft Auto, Metal Gear Solid, and Halo, there were home console video games with insane premises (birthed from their arcade counterparts) that children today couldn’t possibly fathom. Imagine explaining to a youngster today that the big game at the arcade consisted of a roaming yellow circle with a mouth chasing pellets around a maze and running from multi-colored ghosts… all to eat the big dots and the fruit. Or perhaps praising the merits of a crazy Italian plumber running around girders with a hammer, smashing barrels and saving a girl from a monkey. I’d bet that in either case, you’d get some truly confused looks, and maybe an accusation of drug abuse.
But, even before the glory of 8-bit came the originators, the forerunners, the… past orthodoxies, if you will. Yes, there were video game systems in the 1970s. And they were… well, they were primitive and oh-so-similiar to each other. In a word, Pong.
Check out this retro piece on those consoles of yesteryear… written by someone who probably wasn’t even a zygote by decade’s end. Eh, who cares… look at those designs! I’ll have mine in lime green, please.
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George Carlin (1937-2008)
A publicist for George Carlin says the legendary comedian has died of heart failure at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.
Jeff Abraham says Carlin went into St. John’s Health Center on Sunday afternoon, complaining of chest pain. Carlin died at 5:55 p.m. PDT. He was 71. (Story continues here).
I’m sitting here, about to get ready for work, and I simply cannot move. I am in shock. And I don’t think I’ve been anywhere near this shaken about the death of a celebrity since the loss of Dr. LaVey. Probably because Carlin wasn’t merely a “celebrity.” His fame wasn’t predicated upon Hollywood hype or having a rich daddy or simple luck. His comedic style wasn’t reliant upon hack routines or catchy pop phrases, and he certainly never lowered himself to the level of idiots like Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia. He was an original with an undeniably Luciferian edge. And he played his adversarial role with razor sharpness.
Carlin may or may not have been a de facto Satanist, but his appeal in that regard is indisputable (and would explain, in my case, why the subject of Carlin has been covered in both Not Like Most and my first book). By attacking herd conformity, pretentiousness, and stupidity — and let’s not forget his relentless and unapologetic assault on the God religions themselves — he became the consummate accuser. And he didn’t hide his horns for anybody.
I discovered Carlin in the mid-1980s through his “Carlin At Carnegie” performance I’d rented at the local video store. I was probably about 16 at the time and it was the perfect age to become acquainted with Carlin. Even 24 years later, I can still recite many of the routines at the drop of a hat. It’s safe to say that my VHS copy of this show has been played so many times since that its wear is beyond visible.
Since then, he’d only gotten better with age. In fact, I’m going to leave you with a shining example of that — from someone whose humor was truly forged in Hell. Hail George!
Oh, and shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits as well.
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There’s Nothing THAT Good On TV
Apparently, if you’re looking for someone over a 42-year period, checking their own house is the LAST thing you do in Croatia. – MGP
The remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV – 42 years after she was reported missing.
Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television.
Full story here.
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