5. The worst music videos of all time were all made between 1979-1985. Those should have been crucial formative years for my aesthetic sensibilities. Instead, I made Toto mix tapes. See NPR’s Bottom 8…the horror.
4. Now Serving 7 Billion– Guess why I’m not having kids? Just doing my bit for the planet.
- See “World Population: A National Geographic Photographic Tour”
3. Pornographic pumpkin carving kits – Aren’t pumpkin guts gross enough?
2. The sheer magnitude of mind-blowing ribs Hal is smoking right now. Scary good.
1. This creepy as $#!^ story in GQ – about a Russian film director who’s gone all Stalin on set in Kharkov, Ukraine. It’s part Stanford Prison Experiment, part Sartre’s “No Exit,” part “1984”; this guy makes Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” meltdown look like a bad hair day.
moral: Human beings can adapt to the totalitarian mindset in about the time it takes to get to your number at the DMV.
Related post: On Orwell’s Politics and the English Language
The Greenery 
Yep, that’s some scary stuff…. them ribs look scary good!
They were!
I think some of these music videos have to be taken in the context of the times, after all the ’80s were the epitome of bad taste in many, many areas. I actually liked “The Warrior” and even if I giggle now, have fond memories of trying to explain some BS underlying meaning of the video to drunken frat boys. But yeah, the other ones? Total horror.
Horror = the size of my hair in high school. 1984-88
PornkIns, ha! Enough said.