Author Topic: Dropping Like Flies  (Read 3165840 times)

azaghal1981

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2580 on: December 18, 2013, 11:41:11 am »
He had a publicist. That is funny.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2581 on: December 18, 2013, 12:24:28 pm »
also technically a member of the sex pistols

Biggs recorded vocals on two songs for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Julien Temple's film about the Sex Pistols. The basic tracks for "No One is Innocent" (aka "The Biggest Blow (A Punk Prayer)"/"Cosh The Driver") and "Belsen Was a Gas" were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols' final performance, with overdubs added in an English studio at a later date. "No One is Innocent" was released as a single in the UK on 30 June 1978 and reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart. The sleeve showed a British actor dressed as Nazi leader Martin Bormann playing bass with the group.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2582 on: December 19, 2013, 04:44:08 pm »
Al Goldstein



Al Goldstein, the scabrous publisher whose Screw magazine pushed hard-core pornography into the cultural mainstream, died on Thursday at a nursing home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. He was 77. Mr. Goldstein did not invent the dirty magazine, but he was the first to present it to a wide audience without the slightest pretense of classiness or subtlety. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy. It was, primarily, a business, with consumers and suppliers like any other.

The manifesto in Screw?s debut issue in 1968 was succinct. ?We promise never to ink out a pubic hair or chalk out an organ,? it read. ?We will apologize for nothing. We will uncover the entire world of sex. We will be the Consumer Reports of sex.?

?He clearly coarsened American sensibilities,? Alan M. Dershowitz, the civil liberties advocate and Mr. Goldstein?s sometime lawyer, said in 2004.  ?Hefner did it with taste,? Mr. Dershowitz added, referring to Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy, which predated Screw by 15 years. ?Goldstein?s contribution is to be utterly tasteless.?

vansmack

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2583 on: December 19, 2013, 05:13:21 pm »
I thought about posting that this morning, but couldn't find a suitable picture to attach to abide by the boards new rules...
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2584 on: December 19, 2013, 05:32:10 pm »
I thought about posting that this morning, but couldn't find a suitable picture to attach to abide by the boards new rules...

There are new rules?  Oh you mean the rules about the sentence and picture of people who died. 

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2585 on: December 19, 2013, 05:53:08 pm »
personally i think a photo isn't required... an obit or a link is what's really needed (unless a person's appearance is really relevant to his/her importance, which is arguable in the case of mr. goldstein)
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atomic

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« Reply #2586 on: December 19, 2013, 06:00:09 pm »
personally i think a photo isn't required... an obit or a link is what's really needed (unless a person's appearance is really relevant to his/her importance, which is arguable in the case of mr. goldstein)

I don't like links.  Put a sentence or two about the person.  I don't want to waste my time clicking on a link that it turns out I don't care about the person.  If it is someone like Peter O'toole you probably dont' need a sentence but it is always possible someone never heard of him..  Also their age is helpful. 

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2587 on: December 19, 2013, 06:06:45 pm »
I'm a big fan of googling the person's name if I've never heard of them, ya lazy fucks.

atomic

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2588 on: December 19, 2013, 06:28:52 pm »
I'm a big fan of googling the person's name if I've never heard of them, ya lazy fucks.

The lazy person is the person who just types in a name. 

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2589 on: December 19, 2013, 06:47:54 pm »
If I can't make a subtle porn joke without being questioned...then this place really has gone to hell.
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sweetcell

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2590 on: December 19, 2013, 07:03:33 pm »
If I can't make a subtle porn joke without being questioned...then this place really has gone to hell.

i'm guilty of having gone to hell, then... i missed that.
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azaghal1981

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2591 on: December 19, 2013, 07:04:41 pm »
I got it, Smackie.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2592 on: December 19, 2013, 07:29:30 pm »
I liked the picture

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« Reply #2593 on: December 19, 2013, 10:43:34 pm »
I liked the picture
Can't argue with that.  If only my office had that much authenticity.  I actually thought the story part detracted from the photo. 
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #2594 on: December 23, 2013, 10:03:47 pm »


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