RAIDERS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
October 22, 2009
by JASON MOJICA
Americana
Jeff Krulik has been making the kind of videos the Internet was made for long before Al Gore got around to inventing it. Best known for his iconic short film, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Krulik has spent much of the past 20-odd years digging up some of the most awkward and/or dynamic people in America: King of Porn documents the after-hours hobby of a long-time Library of Congress employee; Ernest Borgnine on the Bus documents the star of The Poseidon Adventure driving his luxury coach, the “Sunbum,” around the country; and Hitler’s Hat tells the tale of how the Führer’s top-hat became the centerpiece of a Jewish GI’s magic routine.
MORE JUGGALO MAMMARIES, I MEAN MEMORIES
August 05, 2009
by BABY BALLS
Americana
While I was writing that crap about the Juggalos yesterday I ran across an old folder of pictures from the Gathering. If you would like to look at them, you may click below.
2009: THE YEAR JUGGALO BROKE
August 04, 2009
by BABY BALLS
Americana
Right now there are thousands of smirky, middle-class dipshits chomping at the bit to sink their fangs into this week’s Gathering of the Juggalos. Of the hundred-odd ’That’s it, I’m going’s that have been cropping up on message boards and comment threads since Tom Scharpling blew the lid off the whole deal a couple weeks ago, I’m guessing maybe 10-15 of these will actually make the three-hour drive to Cave-In-Rock from the nearest airport, from which maybe 4-5 mean-spirited articles and ‘blog stories’ will result. Nevertheless, the scab’s been opened. Next year there’ll be more gawking smuggalos with cameras, and more the year after that until eventually the whole thing looks like the crowd of a Vampire Weekend concert, only with everyone falling over themselves to capture something they can laugh at with their friends back on the coast versus jerk off to in the bathroom.
VBS MOVIE NIGHT AT FIREDOGLAKE
July 13, 2009
by VBS Staff
Americana
Tonight Kate Albright-Hanna, the producer of last week’s fringe political nuts episode of Americana and recent adoptee to the VBS extended family will be on Firedoglake.com fielding your questions about the time she spent covering this country’s latest rise of the jackanapes. The whole shebazz starts in two hours, so you’ve got more than enough time to bone up on the episode and come up with something nuanced and thought-provoking to ask for a change. We’re going to go catch some za, but we’ll see you at 8. Just keep refreshing your browser until you see people start talking.
Git r done, Kate! Don’t you dare embarrass us other people who read this site.
MY WEEKEND WITH AMERICA'S LATEST PATRIOTS
July 07, 2009
by RYAN DUFFY
Americana
This installment of Americana was a bit of a bummer to put together. From the sidelines, when you hear rhetoric like the “second American revolution” and watch Glenn Beck diagram the current political climate using a hackey sack and a stick of gum, you kind of figure the biggest challenge will be putting on your poker face when interviewing lunatics.
BABES OF THE BNP
July 06, 2009
by VBS Staff
Americana
Just so you don’t think we’re singling out the bobos of the American political fringe, here’s a series of short, informative interviews our UK office did with the ladies of the British National Party. Calendar coming as soon as we figure out how to get some assault-rifles into their dainty, feminine hands.
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