The Lint Screen, Satire/Humor/Etc.
"Where fake news gets real."
Not long ago, this year’s inductees into The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame were announced. Among them were three of my favorites: Alice Cooper, Donovan and Tom Waits. An eclectic trio for sure. My first exposure to a national recording act was seeing Alice Cooper in the fall of 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio (not … Read more
This election season is unbearably tragic. Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s boneheaded ‘Citizen United’ decision earlier this year, corporations, unions, rich fatcats and special interest groups can dump untold fortunes into political campaigns and causes. And, they can do so under the cloak of secrecy with fake organizational names like The Coalition For Freedom … Read more
My movie barometer for a terrible movie is this: how much would someone have to pay me to see it again? There are films that I would not see again for $50. Not even if you threw in popcorn and Milk Duds. My barometer for a great movie is will I shell out money to … Read more
In my travels as an adman, I’ve been to many places and seen many things. I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen James Taylor on fire and pleading for water. Any kind of water. But I’ve never seen a retail establishment with a name that tops the one in downtown Salisbury, North Carolina: … Read more
Tea Party Republican candidate Christine O’Donnell, running for a Delaware Senate seat, recently ran a TV commercial in which she said, “I am not a witch.” The spot was a tongue in cheek response to her admission years ago to Bill Maher on Politically Incorrect that she had studied witchcraft. Now, Ms. O’Donnell is in … Read more
When kooky ol’ North Korean leader Kim Jong-il announced that his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, would succeed him as leader, many asked, “Huh, what’s up with that?” Well, for the curious, here are some little know facts about the next leader of Commie Korea. • He prefers radishes to celery and Captain Morgan’s to both … Read more