Y Marks the Spot: The Nasty, Brutish, and Short – On Bullying

All kids deserve to not be bullied.

Bizarro Masterpiece Theatre: The Music Videos of Army of Lovers

The scariest band I’ve ever seen. And I’ve written songs about sex with Screech.

The Designer’s Drugs: Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan – The Fall

The second vampire book from del Toro and Hogan is much better than the first.

Y Marks the Spot: The Selfish Gene

A nerdy rant against tribalism.

Y Spy: Less than Jake goes to TV Land

On their latest release, veteran ska punk band Less than Jake have taken an amusingly odd turn. As a title like “TV/EP” may indicate, this is a covers collection of 16 theme songs and commercial jingles, few longer than one minute, reformed into the Less than Jake style. It works out really well.

Trombone and bass player Buddy Schaub described Less than Jake’s newest offering as in keeping with the band’s tendency to veer off into strange territory. In our conversation, he noted other precedent-setting ventures from the band, including the Travolta-channeling ‘Greased’ EP, which would make an album like TV/EP feel inevitable, yet great fun nonetheless.

Bizarro Masterpiece Theatre: Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus

The title says it all.

The Designer’s Drugs: Mick Foley – Countdown to Lockdown

The Hardcore Legend and Tori Amos, among other tales.

Bizarro Masterpiece Theatre: Chairman of the Board

I can’t listen to Iggy Pop without thinking of this movie.

The Limits of Our Time

A continuation of something old, damaging, predictable, and comforting

Bizarro Masterpiece Theatre: Warrior of the Lost World

Megaweapon!

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