WARNING: Some cussing, foul language, and poor Hamilton Morris gets it!
Mermaid Island LIVE @ Knucklehead Hollywood, California
(Blur's Dream) KNUCKLEHEAD HOLLYWOOD. I brought my Sony A7R IV to Knucklehead Hollywood to document this up-and-coming punk rock ensemble. The bill consisted of M-16, Spunk, Mermaid Island, and Spray Allen. The energy at this show was wild. Shoutout to the Latex Vixens for dancing during the live sets. I had a ton of fun, and the bands played super dope music! Apologies to M-16 for not filming the first half of the set. Go check out Mermaid Island.
LYRICS: "Redwood tree [rock hard red boner], it ain't hard to see / His lovะต was the key that opened my thighs." "Forgive me, it sounds cocky." "Girls, I don't need to catch the bouquet, mm / To know a hard rock is on the way...The curse on me was broken by [Travis'] magic wand."
It's not "porn," Dad! It's romance, erotic fantasy, and WOOD shop talk. It's free speech art!
I love wood, Big Daddy!
It used to be all influenced by Lana Del Rey and Billie Eilish, and now is Swift "borrowing" from Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Tate McRae, ad nauseum? It's not just the sound but the themes, as if she's so impressionable at 16 that dating that junior varsity football player Travis Barker has detracted from her [f]"art." - She's not 16, and it's not Barker. That's the Kardashian gal. - No, how old is she then? - She's 35, and his name is Woodrow "9 Inches" Kelce. - And she's bragging? - It would seem so. - That would explain why it's 2:30 in length, which in cm is 9 inches, and it's Track 9. Hmm, Easter egg. And it also suggests what mean Bart Baker is on about. - Well, how bad could it be? Mothers like it, like they used to secretly sing Britney "Brit-Brit" Spears.
These two are SO in love! You can tell. It's 4ever!
All the 'Easter eggs' in Life of a Showgirl
Age progression: Tay gets more plastic surgery and Trav take job at an insurance company.
(myreputation1989) Oct. 2, 2025: OMG, Los Angeles it is your turn @taylornation and @TikTok just announced a The Life of a Showgirl activation in Los Angeles!!! I definitely will be going on Sunday!!! [I cannot wait!!! I'm so excited!!! This is life-changing!!! Is that pee in my panties??? Oops!!!] - Instagram#rich #ts12 #taylurking #thelifeofashowgirl #taylorswift #tsthelifeofashowgirl #taylornation #swifties #swiftie #taylornation13
She's so deep: W knew you were TROUBLE, Tay-Tay, Bart 'n me.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back, but New York Times reporter Adam Liptak and former Washington Post editor Martin Baron say the Trump administration is using federal power to control speech and [stifle] the press.
TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Jimmy Kimmel and his show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" returned to ABC last night after he was suspended indefinitely a week ago. The story of his suspension and return has implications beyond Kimmel, pertaining to conglomerate ownership of broadcast networks and news publications, the First Amendment and freedom of the press, the FCC and Pres. Trump. Here to talk about the larger story are [journalists] Marty Baron and Adam Liptak.
Baron was the editor of The Washington Post from 2013 until his retirement in 2021. During most of his tenure, The Post was owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Baron's memoir about that time is titled Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post. He was previously the editor of The Boston Globe. In the movie Spotlight, a drama based on The Globe's investigation, revealing sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, Baron was portrayed by Liev Schreiber.
Adam Liptak covers the courts and legal issues for The New York Times. Before joining the Times' news staff, he practiced law for 14 years, concentrating on First Amendment issues, including in The New York Times Company's corporate legal department. Let's start with a clip from Jimmy Kimmel's monologue last night.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!")
JIMMY KIMMEL: I've been hearing a lot about what I need to say and do tonight, and the truth is, I don't think what I have to say is going to make much of a difference. If you like me, you like me. If you don't, you don't. I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind. But I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human, and that is you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder (CRYING) of a young man. I don't...
(APPLAUSE)
KIMMEL: ...I don't think there's anything funny about it. I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed, sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and I meant it. And I still do. Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what -- it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. But I understand that to some that felt either ill-timed or unclear, or maybe both.
And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset. If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd have felt the same way. I have many friends and family members on the other side who I love and remain close to, even though we don't agree on politics at all. I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution, and it isn't. It - ever. And also selfishly...
(APPLAUSE)
KIMMEL: ...I am a person who gets a lot of threats. I get many ugly and scary threats against my life, my wife, my kids, my coworkers because of what I choose to say. And I know those threats don't come from the kind of people on the right who I know and love. So that's what I wanted to say on that subject. But I don't want to make this about me because - and I know this is what people say when they make things about them.
(LAUGHTER)
KIMMEL: But I really don't. This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.
KIMMEL: I've had the opportunity to meet and spend time with comedians and talk show hosts from countries like Russia, countries in the Middle East, who tell me they would get thrown in prison for making fun of those in power, and worse than being thrown in prison. They know how lucky we are here. Our freedom to speak is what they admire most about this country. And that's something I'm embarrassed to say I took for granted until they pulled my friend Stephen [Colbert] off the air and tried to coerce the affiliates who run our show in the cities that you live in to take my show off the air. That's not legal. That's not American. That is un-American. And it is so dangerous.
(CHEERING)
I am the King of the USA!
GROSS: All right, so that was an excerpt of last night's monologue by Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel went on to praise Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, for forgiving her husband's assassin. And he added while tearing up...
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!") KIMMEL: There it was. That's it, a selfless act of grace, forgiveness from a grieving widow. (Crying) And it touched me deeply. And I hope it...
(APPLAUSE)
KIMMEL: ...It touches many. And if there's anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that, and not this.
GROSS: So, Marty Baron, Adam Liptak, welcome to FRESH AIR. What was your reaction to last night's monologue?
MARTY BARON: Well, it was very moving, very emotional and, I think, very effective. I really think that this could end up being an extraordinarily important moment in the history of the country. And you know, I think back to the 1950s, actually. It recalled for me the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, when Joseph Welch was representing the U.S. Army. He told Senator Joseph McCarthy, have you no decency, sir? And that really proved to be a turning point when the country turned against McCarthy and his incredibly malicious behavior.
So, you know, now we live in a time where - era where performative behavior is rewarded. It's all about spectacle. You know, we have a president who really revels in showmanship. So maybe what we need is a different spectacle in this instance, from an entertainer like Jimmy Kimmel, really, as a counterweight, as a corrective, because the standard forms of argument just aren't as effective as they once were. So I thought it was highly effective and effective in a way that traditional debate hasn't been.
ADAM LIPTAK: I agree with Marty. It was, among other things, a robust defense of free speech in the sense that you don't have to agree with what Jimmy Kimmel was saying, although it's hard to disagree with much of what he said because it was so moving. But what free speech requires is that you hear him out and you consider it, and you don't try to stifle it or censor it. That said, my viewing of this was a little frustrating because I live in Washington, D.C., and I learned last night, as I tried to watch Jimmy Kimmel, that the local ABC affiliate is owned by Sinclair, and they had chosen not to air it. And while it appeared on YouTube soon enough, this is not an unalloyed victory. In much of the country, Kimmel remains unavailable, and this fight is not over.
GROSS: Yeah. I think that between Sinclair and Nexstar, they own about 20% of the ABC affiliates.
BARON: Yeah, I think they...
GROSS: They own 70 stations, and I think it's like 20% of...
(Access Hollywood) Sept. 4, 2025: The fourth episode of “South Park” Season 27 highlights the Labubu [aka demonicPazuzu] doll craze while continuing to focus on P-Diddy Trump.
In the latest episode (shown on Comedy Central, which aired Sept. 3rd, and is now on Paramount+), Fox News questions the 47th president’s sexual relationship with [a possibly underage] Satan as they note that Mrs. Melania Trump has been away in New York City, asking the diseased and decrepit 79-year-old Diddler Trump directly if he and Satan are sleeping together.
As the Fox News hosts speculate what is going on between them and how their gay romance works, they also praise the pairing.
At one point, a miniature Vice Pres. JD Vance appears at the White House with Satan, who reveals that he is struggling with the relationship but is holding on to a big secret.
Simultaneously, Butters and other South Park students are buying Labubus, which are only going up in price due to Trump's tax-raising tariffs. At the end of the episode, Satan reveals he’s pregnant with Trump’s baby, leading to overjoyed reactions from Fox News.
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Trump's press conference with Satan
01:28 - Fox News asks if Trump is sleeping with Satan
02:24 - J.D. Vance talks with Satan
03:31 - The Labubu Satanic ritual
04:17 - Satan reveals he's pregnant
06:05 - How the White House has responded to South Park
Pazuzu is real and lives on via Labubu craze (British Museum)
Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of original British dark metal band Black Sabbath, as gone Back to the Beginning. He is dead of Parkinson's, which is a way of saying severe drug abuse, addiction, alcoholism, and the toll this took on his robust body. Born in 1948 in Birmingham, England, he returned recently to play a final farewell concert. (There were going to be return shows, as he admitted on stage, but it was to be his last). A man fond of Hoovering drugs, he became a doddering fool, only regaining some clarity on stage in the middle of song, otherwise seeming like a Joe Biden standing there, surprised to look that a crowd had gathered to chant his name and call for old hit songs to be played: Crazy Train, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Paranoid...
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as
palm muting and tremolo picking
deep growling vocals
aggressive, powerful drumming, featuring double kick and blast beat techniques
minor keys or atonality
abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes
chromatic chord progressions [3].
The lyrical themes of death metal may include slasher [horror] film-style violence [4], political conflict, religion, nature, philosophy, true crime, and science fiction [5, 1, 6]. Building from the musical structure of thrash metal and early black metal, death metal emerged during the mid-1980s [7]. More Death metal
In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in 1982, evangelical activist Tim LaHaye foretold that the entire pornography industry would soon be driven out of business.
Neither prediction proved true. Instead, with the rise of the internet, pornography saturates the American conscience more than ever and has reshaped our understanding of sexuality, relationships, media, and even the nature of addiction.
American sociologist Dr. Kelsy Burke has spent the last five years researching and interviewing internet pornography's opponents and its sympathizers.
In The Pornography Wars, Prof. Burke does a deep dive into the long history of pornography in America and then turns her gaze on our present society to examine the ways this industry touches on the most intimate parts of American lives.
She offers a complete understanding of the major players in the debates around porn's place in society: everyone from sex workers, activists, therapists, religious leaders, and consumers.
In doing so, she addresses and debunks the myths that surround porn and porn usage while showing how everything from the way we teach children about sex to the legal protections for what can be published is tied up in the deeply complicated battles over pornography.
Sweeping, savvy, and deeply researched, The Pornography Wars is a necessary and comprehensive new look at pornography and American life. More
Something worse than porn?
Mitch Jeserich, Prof. Kelsy Burke (KPFA.org, June 23, 2023/KPFK.org, July 21, 2025); Psychosos, YouTube; CC Liu (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
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