I've got your stimulus package right here!

Tom Brokaw and Tax Cunts.

Tom Brokaw and bukkake.

Thanks to megiloth from whom I stole these. Ah, the instant and irrevocable regrets of live television and the eternal and irrevocable shame of Youtube. They are the bleach and ammonia of the internet age.

Writer's Block: The Beatles

[Error: unknown template qotd]Pop music? I hate the word. I hate it as I hate Hell, all Montagues and thee.

As much as the Beatles were the center of pop music in their day, they also never really lost their subversive edge. As much as some of their songs were really uninteresting and banal they were willing to reinvent themselves at times and venture outside their musical comfort zones. I think the defining characteristic of pop music since that time is that it does not do these things, although it might appear to. Segue to packaged rebellion for suburban Hot Topic shoppers, but that's a whole essay of its own.