In this excerpt from The Joy of Trash we go DEEP into one of the most mortifying moments in pop culture history: the notorious “Your brother is standing in the middle of Afghanistan!” scene from Studio 60 in the Sunset Strip.
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To promote my extremely available semi-new book The Joy of Trash, I am sharing this excerpt about Robert Evans’ fascinatingly druggy 1981 anti-drug special Get High on Yourself, which feels suspiciously like the product of people getting high on illegal drugs.
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Shasta McNasty marked an embarrassing nadir for television/western civilization. But it did God’s work in helping Scott Adams’ Dilbert get cancelled.
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An Ohio lawyer sued to get the rights to co-write and starred in a “sequel” to Easy Rider. Tragically and hilariously, he succeeded.
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In this exclusive excerpt from the extended. version of Gary the Rat, the third head in the three-headed monster that was Spike TV’s Adult Animation block.
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In 1986 canine narc McGruff the Crime Dog put out an album that honestly, fucking slaps. Shame about the lyrics, though.
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In this excerpt from The Joy of Trash I write up the single most fascinatingly obscure piece in the book, a mortified look at a self-released 1974 comedy album from self-described “impressionist for Christ” Dale Alan Cooper that’s deeply sad and revealing and never remotely funny
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All he wanted was for us to respect his neck. Is that really that much to ask for?
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Did 9/11 sink Emeril Lagasse’s sitcom or did it fail because it was literally the worst idea ever? Read and find out!
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In a desperate bid to stay on the air Baywatch Nights turned into an X-Files clone in its second season.
It did not go well.
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