
In 1999, trend-chasing producers tried to add pro wrestling and horniness to American Gladiators, a thing already pretty horny and pro wrestly. They called their monster Battle Dome
2022-09-07 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Tired of amoral Superman parodies? The Batman ones are worse.
2022-09-06 12:01:02 +0000 UTC
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If you don't know the name Anne Geddes you're probably still familiar with her work; she's a photographer who specializes in making babies as uncomfortable as possible. She constructs very cute prisons for babies. She photographs bab...
2022-09-05 12:01:03 +0000 UTC
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MAD LIBS are already one of the saddest ways to VERB with human language. They are designed to let pedestrian minds manufacture NOUN by clumsily beating reason to death-- like putting on a play about laughing at a badly translated FO...
2022-09-02 12:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello would that I could greet you all in good cheer like a normal day but Im afraid that today is a learnin day charcterized by maybe dark powers of occults and terror. Perhaps you might want to ma...
2022-09-01 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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You’ve had today marked on your calendar, but you never knew why. Circled in red, a crude eye in the margins, as though drawn by primate fingers. “Herkermer?” You wrote, certain you were havin...
2022-08-31 12:01:04 +0000 UTC
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2022-08-31 12:00:01 +0000 UTC
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I can’t decide who’s a bigger weirdo: Napoleon Bonaparte, or his modern fans. I also don’t have to decide, because I can poop on them both within one column. Join me, Dearest Hotdoggers, for a...
2022-08-30 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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At this point in my 🌭 career, I’ve read a lot of books about psychics. The common thing I’ve found about all of them is that they’re written to convince people they are unique and magical, but one brave psychic author has br...
2022-08-29 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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I have sympathy for H.P. Lovecraft’s ghost. Most canonized American authors simply tiptoed around slavery and shoe polish to focus on their dads, leaving Lovecraft holding the bag for racism in the ideal career for opinionated recl...
2022-08-26 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Welcome, 🌭s, to your day of appreciation. We’re awesome. We know that. We know it so hard that we superglued our hands together so we’d always be high-fiving.
But this isn’t about us. This is about you. Did you know yo...
2022-08-25 12:01:03 +0000 UTC
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If you're discussing the impact madmen have had on pop culture, you eventually need to bring up Godfrey Ho, which is what we did on this episode of the Dogg Zzone ...
2022-08-24 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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2022-08-24 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Listen - the first thing you need to understand about paperback science fiction and horror novels of the 1990s is that they were all desperately horny. Depressingly horny. Horny in a way that made me ashamed to be a boy goin...
2022-08-23 12:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes you run across a piece of art that's a great reminder of how the quality of the work doesn't matter. If it hits at the wrong time, or the wrong place, or if there's a problem with the cast, like, maybe you shouldn't have ca...
2022-08-22 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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I have a friend Mark who shares my taste in cinema, so he invited me over to watch knife fighting instructional videos in his basement. We studied the shadowy virgins pretending to murder each other before moving on to increasingly u...
2022-08-19 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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2022-08-17 12:00:00 +0000 UTC
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What’s your favorite ’90s? Mine is 1994 because I had discovered The Mighty Mighty Bosstones but hadn’t yet learned about global warming. But 1994 was the low point for some icons of America’s last sane decade. By now I see y...
2022-08-16 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Nothing is funnier to me than the McDonaldland commercials. Sometimes I feel like I've thought about the concept of McDonaldland 10,000 times more than any person who was ever paid real advertising dollars to come up with ...
2022-08-15 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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In 1995, Kathie Lee Gifford published a book with her 4-year-old son Cody about far less than nothing. Make no attempt to find meaning in this directionless collection of uninteresting anecdotes. Listen to My Heart: Lessons in Lo...
2022-08-12 12:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Here are the faxx: we're still talking about Traxx. It's Part 2 of Brockway's investigation into the screenwriter of this forgotten movie abandoned by the broken timeline that spawned it (you can find
2022-08-10 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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2022-08-10 12:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello to you my cousins in HotDog I post before you today that I want to acknowledge that times are tough! And sometimes if your like me you experience sadness and confusion because: are all these scary and bad happenings abnomalies?...
2022-08-09 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I recently visited the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, because there aren't many options for celebrating your birthday in Tennessee that are more fun than commemorating a national tragedy. The museum was pretty ...
2022-08-08 12:01:03 +0000 UTC
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As the owner of a cursed library, I'm aware of literary genres that don't get a lot of promotion in bookstores. One of them is Sad Parent Solutions for Closet Monsters. Dozens of authors and filmmakers have tried to sell anti-monster...
2022-08-05 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to a very special Podcasting Day. We’re talking to author and professional literary genius Jason Pargin, whose new book, 2022-08-03 12:01:02 +0000 UTC
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2022-08-03 12:00:01 +0000 UTC
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The King’s Daughter is a new movie starring Pierce Brosnan. That sentence is almost not true, for reasons I will explain. But here’s what’s true: Pierce Brosnan plays France’s King Louis XIV, on a quest to gain immor...
2022-08-02 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The author of the book Bible Blowjob: The Sexy Blowjob: Blow Job Like a Pro, came up with three great book titles and used all of them right away. They were terrified someone might look at this book and think, is this about ...
2022-08-01 12:00:10 +0000 UTC
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