Lollipop Magazine

Mediacrity! – Column

July 1, 1997

Following the revolutionary decision by ABC to make the lead character of one of their sitcoms a lesbian, the other networks are looking to break new ground.

The Culture Bunker – Welcome to the Messiah Complex – Fiction

July 1, 1997

We manufactured designer “accessories of Godliness” at the Sweatshop of Heavenly Piecework. These were rare and glorious times and I have the scabs to prove it.

Transformer – The Lou Reed Story – Review

July 1, 1997

The story as Bockris tells it fits snugly in the space reserved for biographies of other driven, creative men – brilliant in art, an ungodly pain to be around.

The Factsheet 5 Zine Reader – Review

July 1, 1997

Essential reading for anyone bemoaning the death of free expression in America, and an inspiration to the disgruntled and dispossessed in this fragmented culture.

Kingpin – Review

June 1, 1997

Kingpin is but the latest manifestation of the so-stupid-it’s-smart lowbrow gag-film, that venerable tradition inaugurated by National Lampoon’s Animal House.

Pink Flamingos: The 25th Anniversary Edition – Review

June 1, 1997

Allow me to shriek a hymn of praise to the quarter-century re-emergence of America’s own cinematic Sleazehenge, the cross-dressing, merde-munching, pullet- humping Godfather of celluloid atrocities, John Waters’ Pink Flamingos.

Garbage Pail – Sample Questions from The Punker Aptitude Test – Column

June 1, 1997

If Bad Religion’s tour bus driving West at 69 mph, and collided with Def Leppard who were traveling East in a train going 92 mph, the resulting sound would be:

Garbage Pail – Scene Splicing – Column

June 1, 1997

Scene Splicing: Panterosmith. Sly and the Family Stone Temple Pilots. Ani DiFrankie Goes To Hollywood.

The Culture Bunker – Hello, My Name Is Legion – Fiction

June 1, 1997

I was chasing a dream of rock ‘n’ roll stardom, playing electric ocarina in a band comprised of a bunch of malcontents, layabouts, and known mousse abusers.

Crank – Review

June 1, 1997

Why is such a big deal gets made over low-brow scumpuppies like Larry Flynt when there are people out there with much more imaginative means of being offensive?