One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative JournalistCounterculture legend Paul Krassner gazes on the fires of pop culture, politics and celebrity and returns unscathed to help us make sense of our senseless world, with an introduction by Lewis Black (The Daily Show) and a foreword by Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Le Show). From cults to pornography, from Charles Manson to Homer Simpson, from the war on drugs to the invasion of Iraq, from Dolly Parton to Lenny Bruce, from circumcision to propaganda, this collection epitomizes Krassner's credo, "Irreverence is our only sacred cow." |
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The Marriage of HipHop and Pornography | 50 |
Predictions for 2004 | 59 |
TV Shows of the Near Future | 68 |
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Page 19 - I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix...
Page 30 - Goose character — the old lady who lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do — speaking on the phone: "Dr.
Page 29 - By its nature, humor is anarchistic, and it may well be that those who seek to suppress or limit laughter are more dangerous than all the subversive conspiracies which the FBI ever has or ever will uncover. Laughter, in fact, is the most effective of all subversive conspiracies, and it operates on our side.
Page 28 - That man was crouching over the corpse, no longer chuckling but breathing hard and moving his body rhythmically. At first I thought he must be performing some mysterious symbolic rite he'd learned from Mexicans or Indians as a boy. And then I realized — there is only one way to say this — he was literally fucking my husband in the throat. In the bullet wound in the front of his throat. He reached a climax and dismounted. I froze. The next thing I remember, he was being sworn in as the new President.
Page 30 - Dramatized advertising involving statements or purported statements by physicians, dentists, or nurses must be presented by accredited members of such professions or it must be made apparent that the portrayal is dramatized by superimposing the words "A Dramatization" in a highly visible manner during the initial 10 seconds of the scene.
Page 31 - What if comic strip characters answered those little ads in the back of magazines?" I wrote the script and Wally Wood did the artwork. Orphan Annie sent for Maybelline for her hollow eyes. Dick Tracy sought a nose job. Alley Oop got rid of his superfluous hair, only to reveal that he had no ears. But Popeye's flat-chested girlfriend, Olive Oyl, wasn't permitted to send away for falsies. Gaines explained, "My mother would object to that.