New on Substack - On the 100th Birthday of Jerry Lewis - jackboulware.substack.com/p/on-the-100...
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New on Substack - On the 100th Birthday of Jerry Lewis - jackboulware.substack.com/p/on-the-100...
New on @Substack - The Wayne Shannon Fan Club - "In 1986, one of San Francisco’s most recognizable faces belonged to Wayne Shannon, a nightly commentator for KRON-TV news…Shannon was also reliably unfunny. And yet, he seemed to think he was just killing it, every time...
"The building dated back to 1907, constructed after the earthquake, and boxer Jack Dempsey apparently had trained in the basement. The club owner, a mustachioed guy named Michael, supposedly had enjoyed a previous career as a gun-runner in Southeast Asia...” #nightlife substack.com/home/post/p-...
New on @substack - "Punk Rock Executive: The astonishing second act of Stooges guitarist James Williamson." #thestooges #iggypop #jameswilliamson #rawpower #protopunk tinyurl.com/3p3t3ucn
Would never have happened without you Bob! Great job on the mike. The buckskin was a nice touch.
New on @substack - Bear Wrestling at a Literary Event: A very weird moment from the Litquake archives - tinyurl.com/3tc927c6
This weekend in Boston, via Craigslist
On the heels of the Venezuela overthrow, Cuba is now also currently targeted by the White House for regime change. It seems time to share this. "The Great Cuban Cigar Panic," a federal sting operation costing half a million dollars... tinyurl.com/48tremts
New on Substack - Heavy Metal Parking Lot turns 40 -- open.substack.com/pub/jackboul...
New on #substack - Gray wolves are definitely getting some bad press in California, following a series of recent deadly attacks on horses and cows…I thought, we need to hear from the wolf’s perspective on this, so I went looking to find one. tinyurl.com/4mt4wu7x
New on @substack - I'm Chevy Chase and Why Are You Still Talking About Me? jackboulware.substack.com/p/im-chevy-c...
New on Substack - Ralph J. Gleason's brilliantly strange liner notes for this 1961 Miles Davis recording - "It is gloomy, dirty and unattractive. In daylight, it is absolutely repulsive. Yet it has a world-wide reputation as a center for jazz..." jackboulware.substack.com/p/miles-davi...
New on @substack - "The Night My Uncle Shot Santa Claus" - tinyurl.com/35jak62u
New on Substack - "...I wrote a daily column for the zesty new Salon called “The Naked World,” which featured weird, offbeat, and ridiculous sex-related news from around the globe...I cannot believe I did this for an entire YEAR." jackboulware.substack.com/p/suckling-m...
New on Substack — The “Oscars of Silicon Valley”: Ruined by a little thing called the 2000 dotcom crash. tinyurl.com/ym7uj9d7
"The 60s-70s period of cinematic science fiction was a heady era which portrayed our future as a horrific testament to human neglect—The Omega Man, The Andromeda Strain, Soylent Green, Westworld, Rollerball. My friends and I gobbled them up like candy..." jackboulware.substack.com/p/brief-dabb...
...two-thirds of teens couldn’t think of anything when asked what movies or TV shows come to mind when they think about journalism. Those who had answers most frequently cited the “Spider-Man” franchise or the movie “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.” apnews.com/article/news...
New on #substack - Just a Gigolo, with Boz Scaggs - A 1980s tale of improv humiliation. #fernbar #membersonlyjacket #bozscaggs #edmeese #patricknagel #sanfrancisco tinyurl.com/s2xy54ce
New on @substack - Revisiting the Gemstone File: #LBJ #Kennedys #JEdgarHoover #HowardHughes, and #Albanian frogmen, all from a bar in S.F.'s Tenderloin district. #conspiracy #conspiracytheories tinyurl.com/e7mrpk7a
New on Substack - We’ve been hearing a lot about private jets recently, from Epstein’s “Lolita Express” to FBI Director Kash Patel using gov jets for personal use. Here's the story of my first experience with a private jet... jackboulware.substack.com/p/you-never-...
New on Substack - Here's a 1995 timeline of San Francisco. Includes Jerry Garcia, the Unabomber, Berkeley’s Waving Man, a six-foot statue made of Jell-O, and mayor Frank Jordan singing naked in the shower. tinyurl.com/2s3jf3dp
New on Substack - "…A melancholy peek at a band which is about to disintegrate. Especially if you know more of the story." tinyurl.com/4c8czcxv #TheLastWaltz #scorsese #Winterland #SanFrancisco
this week's useless @cnn.com headline... #mosttrustednameinnews #tedturnervomiting
New on @Substack - The Electric Clear Light Acid Mess: Inside the 1990s bust of LSD bagman Captain Clear Light - “What I’m trying to tell the world and ask the world is…here, I turned on 50 million people. Why don’t you all send me a dollar?" #sanfrancisco #acid #northbeach tinyurl.com/muec5t27
New on @Substack- "Plains States Exorcism." Since it’s nearing Halloween...When I was in college in the late 1970s, an exorcism was conducted inside my family church in Montana. It sounds nuts, I know. Read for free, subscribe to support. tinyurl.com/5n86wyxc
New on @Substack - Scourge of the Lefties - "We are adaptable out of necessity. We have learned to compensate for a ruthless right-handed world.” tinyurl.com/2p8xwvfa
New feature story at @altajournal.bsky.social - "The Cult of Eichler: The houses of this mid-century modern developer are hotter than ever. But renovating one can require joining an online support group." #josepheichler #eichlerhomes #midcenturydesign #architecture #realestate
New on #Substack - The King of Late Night: America's talk show censorship, and the career of #JohnnyCarson - “Democracy is buying a big house you can’t afford with money you don’t have to impress people you wish were dead…” tinyurl.com/ycyzzj4s
One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.
