Category Archives: RIP

Poor Grasshopper

Most Americans’ introduction to eastern thought was via the TV show KUNG FU starring David Carradine. The lanky actor played a Eurasian Shaolin monk, Kwai Chang Caine wandering the Old West. Wisdom was dispensed through flashbacks to the young man’s studies with his tutor, Master Po. Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear? […]

Marilyn Chambers RIP plus one month

The Police announced that Marilyn Chambers, star of BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR, died of natural causes. She was a true star of porno as evidenced by this outtake from a film with the legendary John Holmes. To view this segment click on the following URL http://www.xhamster.com/movies/134791/marilyn_chambers.html

JG Ballad RIP

James Graham Ballard passed into the aether after an illustrious career as a novelist. He was born in China and endured WWII in a Shanghai internment camp as a child. Prison, war, atroocity, and a warped childhood spell writer and JG Ballard delighted the lovers of weird with CRASH, CONCRETE JUNGLE, and his infamous the […]

Marilyn Chambers RIP

Ivory Soap symbolized purity to America in the 1950s. A bar graced every bathroom. The soap actually floated in the tub thanks to the air whipped into the concoction. Ivory Soap’s market share during the 1950s and 1960s was massive and the girls on the wrapper were symbols of virtue, until it was revealed that […]

Paul Newman RIP

On Sunday night I stayed at the Doctor’s house in Staten Island. We watched football and ate Italian food. He makes a mean meatball. After several straight hours of NFL we switched channels to TMC for a Paul Newman Marathon. HUD, SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME, and COOL HAND LUKE. None of his kids had […]