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Waving My Dick in the Wind – The Non-Nudist Naked Freedom-Loving Nude Beach Review

by Jason Thomas Kocher August 19th, 2010 Culture » Philosophy » Politics » Society »

There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free…
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil…
That we can rise above (rise above)

Who cares if you’re so poor you can’t afford
To buy a pair of mod a go-go stretch-elastic pants…
There will come a time [...]

How Doctor Who Ends

by Jason Thomas Kocher August 1st, 2010 Culture » Culture » Film and TV »

Should Doctor Who ever need to end – if the end of the human species and its knowledge be imminent, unavoidable and irrecoverable – the last episode should take place on planet Gallifrey with whomever the current Doctor is stealing a Tardis and escaping just before being mortally wounded and regenerating into the form of the first Doctor, William [...]

Gogol Bordello vs. Primus vs. Meat on the Williamsburg Waterfront

by Jason Thomas Kocher July 31st, 2010 Culture » Society » Culture » Sounds »

Gogol Bordello rocked out the Hayek-inspired “Not A Crime”, commenting, surely, on free-markets and free-minds, then spent the rest of the show trying to sell people the shit they don’t want to buy…the new album. There’s too many fucking singers, like some sad after-school multi-cultural feel good pallette…that, yes, feels good, but sounds like shit. And I know the band [...]

The Obscenity of Obscenity Laws

by Jason Thomas Kocher July 17th, 2010 Culture » Philosophy » Politics » Society »

Here is a call to outlaw Obscenity Laws on the grounds that they are the only obscenity.

Full Disclosure: I don’t feel that I am defined by these things…but I do like sex…and I do like porn…

…and for me, the question of whether something is artistic or not is moot. In less controversial realms, I think Revenge of the Nerds and [...]

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