2017 - Buh-buh-buh-butthead Brian Kilmeade on Fox News: "Michael Bublé is like Bing Crosby, except he can actually sing."

Wait...I thought Giuliani got all the insane looking homeless people, who reeked horribly of desperate putrescine leakage, off the NYC streets back in 1999!

Another wicked cool find in my stuff... Dec 14, 1975: *50* hepatic failing years ago...The Shirts, Tuff Darts and the fab Poppees at CBGB's! Plus a weeks worth of unclean Christmas Rock righteousness with The Heartbreakers, the Ramones, Mink DeVille and the Talking Heads!

1977: Electra Records came up with the worst ad idea ever (okay...UPS's "What can brown do for you?" takes the caca cake) for Television's "Marquee Moon" LP The Electra paper ad feature was part of their (dig this) "THE YEAR OF THE E.A.R.: The New February Models" campaign. Bert Cooper just shit!

Dec. 14, 1948: Happy Blurtday, hero Lester Bangs...who would have been 77 years old today! Late '70s: Me and pal Smuggo brown-bagging off St. Marks. Smuggo: "Look at this fucking Lester Bangs-wannabe slob coming our way." Me: "That ain't no Lester Bangs-wannabe slob, that 𝐈𝐒 Lester Bangs."

Take the 7 Train, Douche Ellington

Sabermemory - 1975 Unfunny, career GOPeon Joe Garagiola whiffed 173 times in his ML career...here was his 174th. "Simon and Garfunkel have reunited! For my money, they're the Ruth and Gehrig of pop music!"

December 13, 1925: Happy Birthday, hero Dick Van Dyke...as he turns *𝟏𝟎𝟎* years old today! In 2020, the supreme leader of the ottoman empire fell head over heels for Bernie Sanders!

1978: Middle of the road to ruin, Billy Joel on the New York punk scene: “I don't think the punks are typically representative of the whole spectrum of New York music. I wanted to present another point of view, but I didn't want to be Barry Manilow, either.” Well, guess fucking what.

We all knew that Trumpian cumbubble Pete Rose was deeply involved with Greenies....but Reds? Who knew?! This confusing ad came out a year before The Who concert disaster in Cincinnati. I wouldn't buy that "Who Are You" shitsingle even if Schottzie had squatted out a swastika shaped strudel on it!

BTW: If you're posting Michael Bublé songs for Frank Sinatra's birthday today...you're doing it wrong there, pally.

December 12, 1915: For Frank Sinatra's 110th birthday. Always thought this would have made a great book cover for Don DeLillo's "Pafko at the Wall" follow-up: "Gleason at the Urinal". From my cool daddio-in-law's stuff: Frank & Toots boozing it up on the cover of Toots Shor's Restaurant bar menu.

𝐎𝐇 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐓! Street vendor stromboli goes right through me every damn time!

Hi Ho, another Steverhino find! During our annual Xmess shop party, I would hang punk, serial killers, sex, etc. newspaper clippings around the dump to give it a holiday feel One year I used some Steve Allen photos with a dozen or so song titles attached from the millions that he wrote (name one)!

Anti-saber snooze, Richard Neer on Mets not losing Pete Alonso: "I've always been skeptical of defensive metrics and if that's the reason why you let 126 RBIs walk, well, good luck." This coming from a guy that once said: "I defy you to pick a bad song on the Eagles' "Hotel California" album!"

Blow me, Blowfish. Horse-faced Hayagriva Mark Teixeira: "I’m a conservative political outsider running for Congress to fight for America First. President Trump needs strong allies to deliver for our great nation."

June, 1977: Nothing screamed cutting edge Rock & Roll more than that bulbous blob of bacterium Scott Muni welcoming "cutie" Kiki Dee and "the winner of the Elton John look alike contest, Sammy Vargas" to the MOR-geared WNEW-FM studios...on the same day Radio Birdman's "New Race" single was released!

12/10: 2026 HOF Gizmo Leaderboard - 4.2% of votes in. 83.3% - Carlos Beltrán --------------------------- 72.2% - Andruw Jones 61.1% - Andy Pettitte 55.6% - Alex Rodríguez 50.0% - Chase Utley 50.0% - Félix Hernández 44.4% - Bobby Abreu 38.9% - Manny Ramirez 33.3% - Mark Buehrle

Dec 10, 1967: 58 yrs ago, NY sportswriter John Lake went missing & has never been found. Bugs me that the police never looked into a possible tie-in between "Bunny Lake is Missing" & two yrs later the "John Lake is Missing" incident took place ("Kari Lake is Missing " was later, she's a no-count).

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean With Gene December 10, 2005: Hero Eugene McCarthy...gone 20 resisting years now. But as Abbie Hoffman once sadly said about McCarthy: "Gene McCarthy wasn't much. One could secretly cheer for him the way you cheer for the Mets. It's easy, knowing he can never win."

Dec 9, 1983: 42 American beating yrs ago...went to see another fab double-bagger of The Fleshtones & The Raybeats at Irving Plaza. 1963: Just 20 yrs before that...here I am standing in the back of our fledgling Miller Boys gang, already working on my half-assed attempt at a Fleshtonian Powerstance!

Dec. 1977: Peter Goldmark...gone 48 groove imperfected years now. Well, at least he got out before albums started being called "vinyls".

Christ on a shepherd's crook hook! 1972: Religio-nudnik of the highest ordure Cliff Richard on "Jesus Christ Superstar": "Rod Stewart is a superstar and there are lots of Rod Stewarts and lots of superstars...but Jesus isn't to be brought down to that level, for Jesus is the son of God!"

The Farce Awakens Just when you think you thought our country has totally bottomed out...along comes a 1977 photo where mofo Crosby, Stills & Nash were given a private screening to see freakin' "Star Wars". All is lost.

Dec. 9, 1990: The Manhattan Scissor King of wrestling turned Hollywood heavy, Mike Mazurki...gone 35 windpipe crushing yrs now. Here Mazurki strangling the rotting life force outta Barry Goldwater-carrying Dick Powell, as audiences across America leaped out of their seats and cheered mighty!

Remembering Joe Biden's 2020 fulfilled COVID vaccine promise: Joe Biden: “100 million shots in the first 100 days.” World B. Free: "Hold my beer."

At least the Trane ran on time! From a box left by a Nazi-friendly, jazzbo Germaniac guy we got our house from Bill Evans on suicided Herbie Fields: "He had been a forerunner of rock 'n' roll. He was wiggling, jerking. Rock 'n' roll came, brought millions of dollars, but nothing for Herbie Fields"

From Trumpian tater-tot Kevin Kernan's latest anti-saber rant: "From 1984 through 1989 Don Mattingly was the best player in the American League." Uhh...no. 152 OPS+/WAR 48.5 - Wade Boggs 138 OPS+/WAR 42.0 - Rickey Henderson 147 OPS+/WAR 33.0 - Don Mattingly

December 8, 1980: Walls and Bridges and Hot Dogs. Hero John Lennon, gone 45 years now...

A photo of people I've successfully avoided for well over 50 years!

Well baptize me in wine! 2011: 14 Big Beat beaten years ago...rock & roll hero Billy Miller posted this righteous bit!

Dec. 6, 1955: That great HOF Honus Wagner, died on this day *70* years ago. Here: Even though struggling on his deathbed, the Flying Dutchman still got a kick out of signing "Burt Mustin" to autograph hounds.

1964: Ed Sullivan on the Stones "If things can't be handled, we'll stop the whole business! We won't book any more rock & roll groups & we'll ban teens from the studio. I didn't see the Stones until the day before the broadcast. .. I was shocked when I saw them!" Here: Bill Wyman as Ed Sullivan.

From 2017: Fox & Friends' adultery-addicted, Christian dip-sticker & dumber than a can of Heinz Baked Beans, G.I. Jabroni Pete Hegseth with The Who playing as a show intro...and his secretary of indefensible response was: Hegseth: "𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐎?! I don't know The Who. I never followed The Who!"

Dec 2016: "The BBWAA passed a measure today mandating that all HOF ballots be public starting in 2018 It remains voluntary for this election" I took full blame BTW: Outside of opening a door for Yippies to sneak into a AMVETS Convention. Fucking with the BBWAA HOF vote was my top anarchist moment!

It's a little known fact that before he became a jowly juggernaut for the jingoists, Newt Gingrich once came in for a reading for the head alien role in "Invasion of the Saucer Men".

Dec. 6, 2023: One of my faves, Vic Davalillo, gone two years now. Ol' Blew Eyes John Sterling: "Ichiro Suzuki reminds me of Vic Davalillo, except Davalillo couldn't put the ball in play." 09.8% Strikeout Percentage - Vic Davalillo 10.1% Strikeout Percentage - Ichiro Suzuki

I have no idea what this is...but YOU tell him Disco Sucks!

Dec. 5, 1981: 44 yrs ago....early period (1978-79) Maxwellite hanger-on, Jeffrey Lee Pierce returns, now with his Gun Club! From the essential Gun Club archive page: Bob Bert (later of Sonic Youth) attends the show."...which is odd, seeing that Bob attended most of the early shows at Maxwell's!

Dec 5, 2022: Trumpian quack Kirstie Alley...gone 3 cheery years now. I will always remember her by this beaut from a local Jersey woman's obituary...only 3 weeks before Alley's death. "Elke vowed to take her visceral distaste of Kirstie Alley with her to the grave."

1992: KICKS Magazine #7: Chicken-twistin' hero Hasil Adkins reviewing the Jerry Lee Lewis movie "Great Balls of Fire!" (1989 - Jim McBride) as only he cans! "𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡!" And that is all the people needs to know!

Dec. 4, 1980: 45 Factorial yrs ago...I snipped this out because we were going to the Andy Warhol's Exposures superstar scrapper at B. Daltons, but basement booze party got the better of us & we ended up not going. I saw it (autographed) listed on eBay for $2,800 and that's a lotta tomato cans, bub!

Nothing but nothing pissed off anti-punk, Trumpian skunk, ex-pal JJ Smuggo more than when I showed him this radical 1978 ad for the Jam's "This Is the Modern World" album.

1977: A Bobby Ocean bit...sorta like a cartoon version of John Belushi going from Stephen Bishop to Fear.

Mega MAGA righty/lefty Phil Mickelson: All that is wrong with America in one cheap chip shot tweet. Headline the other day: The Inexorable Fall from Grace of Phil Mickelson Mickelson denies charges he ‘tipped off’ investors on impending $200m venture as his complex legacy is dissected by critics"

Riley Gaines while America loses. Mark Teixeira in politics...like a "Blowfish" out of water.

Dec. 1977: Just remember, on the day the Ramones released their fab "Rockaway Beach" single...hookie-douchie, prog-nippled anti-punk Scott Muni was busy welcoming freakin' Olivia Newton-John and her record label to the WNEW-FM (WHERE ROCK DIED YEARS AGO!) studios!

Didn't this Elton John/Ed Sheeran Christmas song/video release coincide with that bizarre Dec. 2022 outbreak of random people shoving well-honed obsidian knives into their ears and eyes? Thought so. And if ever there was an anthem for starting an actual War on Christmas, this is friggin' it...

At the end of Douglas Sirk's "Hitler's Madman" (1943)...a ghost from the destroyed village of Lidice staggers out of a death crowd and warns the viewers: "𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲. 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦! 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭!"

December 2, 1984: So 41 Ashburning years ago...Yo La Tengo played their very first gig as they opened for the string-bending ferocity of Antietam at Maxwell's. Or as my pal Smuggo said when he first saw Ira and Georgia were in Yo La Tengo: "𝐈𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥'𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝?!"