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June 13, 2007January 15, 2019

Coyle & Sharpe: The Imposters Podcasts, Episodes 7, 8 & 9

Here are Episodes 7, 8 & 9 of the historic Coyle & Sharpe podcast series presented by Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America.

In Episode 7, Coyle & Sharpe invade a football practice field, where they ask a coach for his help training their wolverines. In Episode 8, they discuss the merits and difficulties of having an extremely elongated head. And, in Episode 9, they affect piss-poor French accents and ask an antique dealer if they can smash his goods.

You can listen to the earlier episodes: Episodes 1, 2 & 3, Episode 4, Episode 5 and Episode 6.

These recordings are from the Sharpe family archive, tended by Mal’s daughter, Jennifer Sharpe. More about Coyle & Sharpe is available on their Website or on MySpace.

You can also listen to this podcast at The Sound of Young America or you can subscribe to the series in iTunes.

June 12, 2007January 15, 2019

Paris is burning

Exclusive for ArofthePrank.com! Paris Hilton’s Prison Diary!
Days 1 thru 7

Dear Diary,

Day 1
it”s Monday, my first day, and I can tell you Jail sucks. I mean I”m sorry and all for whatever they said I did. I mean I was just getting a damn burger, since when is that a crime??? I hate It here. And I”m freaking out cos they just told me that I can only use the phone for something like an hour, and I have to call collect, which I never did before. Weird? and I have to use a regular phone that other people touch and stuff! And they said there”d be no torture! I hate this place. If I”d a known all this I would never have come. I can”t wait to leave. I can”t believe I”m allowed one stupid hour on line! At least I can cram in some shopping but man this is like so killing me. How could they put ME in here? I have something like 167699 myspace friends, I mean come on, doesn”t that count for something?

Day 2
I broke a nail

Day 3
Ican”tfuckingtakeitanymore!!!! I told the judge that from now on I”ll pay attention to everything and I am, I really am. But the problem is that I have too much time to think. I”m freakin” I really am. I see how shallow my whole life has been, totally caught up in the consumerism and illusions of celebrity and now that I am forced to look inward I see how each breath I take is a gift and that life is precious and how from now on I”m gonna totally look at life differently.
I just re-read this and it”s pretty clear I”m going crazy!! HELP ME!!

Day 4
I”m home, I am so so glad to be out of that rat infested damp cell.Actully I think the walls were sheet rock cos I could hear the girl next door freakin out. But whatever. I got off because I have something called a malady or syndrome. I am deeply afflicted with claustrophobia syndrome or something like that. But whatever I”m home, in my room and oops there goes my phone again. Continue reading “Paris is burning”

June 8, 2007January 15, 2019

Remembering The Realist

I’m very happy that archivist Ethan Persoff has created The Realist Archive Project, and will be republishing all 146 issues of Paul Krassner’s “classic and uncompromising” magazine The Realist. It’s great that his work will be back in circulation and available to the public.

I’ve known Paul since the 1960’s. He’s been a good friend and supporter of my work. He’s even been a participant. He came on my Hippie Bus Tour to Queens, was at my Vietnamese Christmas Nativity Burning in Central Park, and was kind enough to pose with my Grotesque Statues of Liberty in the East Village for the back cover of the jacket sleave of his book, How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years. Paul has always been thoughtful, courageous and funny. Happily, he’s also a contributor to this site.

Four issues of The Realist will be posted every month until the archive is complete.

Thanks Mark Frauenfelder for the heads up and for the wonderful post about The Realist’s influence on Boing Boing.