From time to time, we receive correspondence sent by our adoring readers. Letters flood in through the mail slot addressed from prisons, treatment centers, rehabilitation facilities, bedrooms under curfew, dark closets, and sometimes come in bottles postmarked “the shores of the lost.” We do our best to respond individually to each and every threat, summons, [...]
Nov 27 2009 | Posted in
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According to our market research, there’s nothing customers love more than to talk to the customer service departments of cable companies over the phone. A real live person! No pesky online tasks! That’s why UnderDO Cable Co. is the only minor cable outlet that enables and requires you to talk with customer service each time you want to change the channel. Don’t [...]
Sheik Yerbouti circa 1978.
J. Savvy, marketing director, “Somebody Hit The Lights!” and www.sploogeonmyface.com :
“Sure, you’ve only got 8 unique visitors, and 2 returning visitors, but if those two returning visitors happen to be the goddamn Sultan of Brunei and Mr. Sheik “All My Gold Coins In My Pocket,” then you’re all freakin’ set, aren’t you?
A Discouraging Word: IV Censorship and Letters To The Weekly Dig
This is part 4 of an upcoming piece called A Discouraging Word about use of “retard” in the lexicon, the history of 20th century humor, and its relation to power, language, and your subtler forms of oppression. The letters below were originally [...]
Nov 27 2009 | Posted in
Activist's Alley |
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Soon SHTL will be introducing a brand new feature not found on any other movie critic’s site in the land. We will be giving you – our loyal readers – a chance to challenge some of our most famous critics emeritus, Editor-in-Chiefs, and staff writers in a unique battle of wits and critical skills called [...]
Frownland is the kind of improbable, absolutely uncompromising film that, immediately upon its closing the doors on you, credits rolling, makes you think to yourself, with a certainty the nature of which you are not sure yet, “that is a masterpiece.” (It’s reminds me of a Rodney Dangerfield joke from Back to School, when just after being subjected to [...]
Nov 24 2009 | Posted in
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