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'Tricky' Rick Moen -- It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time
Bill Young -- He's a happenin' d00d!
Brytown -- N/A
Crackmonkey -- This is just a line of text not written by Flesh.
Cynara -- Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
Daemon Agent -- What a little bitch that Reficul is.
Dkr. Armand Geddyn -- Dobbsian drunk technod0rk
Donkey Hotey -- Pigdog Journal's own mysterious Donkey Hotey channels Ben Franklin.
Dr. Lola T'Pola -- Media scholar and gadfly
Dunkin' Idaho -- I'm a space cowboy. Bet you aren't ready for that.
El Crackhead Grande -- Crazy-ass crackhead!
El Destino -- Krazy -- but true!!!!
El Jefe -- Yo soy un 99 Cent Whopper!
El Snatcher & Ms. BunnyPenny -- Crazy team!!
El Snatcher, Liquor Pig, Mr. Bad & Frankenstein Jones
Ersten Wiles -- Clickbait Editor-in-Chief
Flesh -- ????-2003
Flesh, Master Squid, Baron Earl, El Destino
Frankenstein Jones -- Now more machine than man
Generalissimo Fresh-n-Fruity -- World Conflict Correspondent
Greg Houston with assistance by Tracy Jacobs -- Most Junior Media Correspondent
Landru -- Do you Landru?
Lenny, Thom 'Starky' Stark, Geoffrey, Splicer, Baron, Destino
Miss Conduct -- Putting the 'wo' in woman
Mr. Bad -- Yo soy un pistolero!
Mr. Bad, Arkuat, Thom Stark, and Baron Earl -- The four-headed beast of the apocolypse.
Mr. Bad, Crackmonkey -- A short-lived collaboration.
Ocho Ha! -- PigDog European Coörespondant
Poindexter Fortran -- Poindexter Fortran
Reverend CyberSatan -- CyberSatan ROXXX!
Rob Piltz -- Rob sent us some links. I guess he's OK.
Sean Kennedy -- The man who made mandrills famous!
Sid & Cyn -- Siduri and Cynara
Siduri -- Saeva indignatio! Punk rock!
Steve Dallas, Esq. -- Volenti non fit injuria.
Thom 'Starky' Stark, Lenny Tuberose, 'Tricky' Rick Moen, Destino
Thym Colander -- High Technology Correspondent
Tjames Madison -- like a rolling steel keg rolling on concrete
Uncle Mojo -- Your greatest ally or your worst enemy
Yehat -- Chemical Abuse Correspondent
Young Luke -- He's Young Luke, he's from Canadia, gar gar gar.
binky -- Well, hell. He's BINKY.
T O P S T O R I E S
John Dvorak has passed. I’m of mixed emotions. First off I’m more positive about his contribution to the overall technology journalism of the early PC days through the 90s, despite how many things he got wrong. He was a firebrand and commanded attention. (More...)
America's National Recording Registry Inducts Culturally Significant Artist - Weezer!
America's Library of Congress calls them "defining sounds of history and culture" and "audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage." Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Weezer! (More...)
The Crossroads are real and The Blues is a place; The enduring myth of Robert Johnson (More...)
California Glory Hole attracts huge crowds
A glory hole at Napa's Lake Berryessa is drawing huge crowds. According to Chris Lee, the general manager for the Solano County Water Agency, the glory hole hasn't been active since 2019, and only restarted operations on Feb 4. (More...)
Republican State Senator busted after soliciting a teenage girl
Republican State Senator Justin Eichorn of Minnesota was arrested for soliciting a teen girl on Monday just hours after he introduced a bill proposing "Trump derangement syndrome" (TDS) as a form of mental illness. (More...)
Parents claim measles is not that bad after having only one child die
The parents of a Texas girl who died from the measles are defending their decision not to vaccinate their daughter. "She says they would still say 'Don't do the shots,'" an unidentified translator for the parents said. "They think it’s not as bad as the media is making it out to be." (More...)
C L A S S I C P I G D O G
Johnnie Royale's Guide to Wakes
Wakes can present problems for Bad People of the Future. (If you don't know what a BPotF is, you need to read more of the PDJ.) Sure, your friend is gone and you miss him and that really sucks; it does, I know. But all Bad People of the Future are gonna die, and they have all accepted that fact. They do deserve, however, to have one final kickass party to celebrate all the bad things they've done in the past, present and future. And you, as a friend, have to make sure that their desire for a final send off is well executed (sorry for the pun). That's just the way of BPotFdom. (More...)
NASA's Mars missions keep blowing up and crashing, but dammit, when you reach for the stars you have to expect a few minor setbacks. Drink a toast to the men and women of NASA! Toast them with a Lost Probe mixed up with your own two (or three) hands! (More...)
The Liquidation of Hobo Junction
Albany, CA's homeless hooverville by the Bay, "Hobo Junction," is going to be torn down by The Man. Entrances are already being blocked off, and it's now difficult and dangerous to get there. Worse, these obstacles are making it hard to get to the nearby HORSE TRACK on foot. Local historian, Pao Tzu, has an overview of situation. (More...)
So I was walking around the Tenderloin looking for stray twenty-dollar-bills that might have fallen into gutters, and I was thinking, as I often do, about my mother. (More...)
Skunk School -- Learn Why Not To Keep Skunks As Pets
There is an alarming trend in pet purchasing habits this fall. People inspired by the WWII film, "Life is Beautiful" -- the one with that annoying Italian guy -- are buying descented skunks by the millions. (More...)
Songs Of Love And Special Things
Well, dear reader, there's no denying it: Spring has sprung. The air is pungent with the fertile aroma of Romance. And you know what goes with Romance, don't you? That's right, Lover, porn. And not just any porn, but the kind you can sing along to. (More...)
