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The Random Rerun of the Day is the Coffee Table Book A Camel Called Joe, Which Celebrates Camel's Success in Selling Cancer Sticks to Kids
The Random Rerun of the Day is the Coffee Table Book A Camel Called Joe, Which Celebrates Camel's Success in Selling Cancer Sticks to Kids

Our exploration of the worst and weirdest literature has to offer explores a 1998 coffee table book devoted to Joe Camel, the lovable humanoid camel with a penis-shaped face who very successfully sold cigarettes to small children.

Random-Ass Rerun of the Day: 1980s Sex Bomb Samantha Fox's Salacious Memoir Forever
Random-Ass Rerun of the Day: 1980s Sex Bomb Samantha Fox's Salacious Memoir Forever

Page 3 girl turned pop star/sex goddess Samantha Fox's memoir Forever is a reasonably nasty, moderately engaging time waster about an ordinary cockney lass miscast in the role of a naughty girl in need of love and her naughtier father/manager. 

When Adrien Brody Introduced Sean Paul in Rastafarian Garb on a Notorious Episode of Saturday Night Live, the World Sat Up and Asked, "What is that Dude Smoking?"
When Adrien Brody Introduced Sean Paul in Rastafarian Garb on a Notorious Episode of Saturday Night Live, the World Sat Up and Asked, "What is that Dude Smoking?"

All he wanted was for us to respect his neck. Is that really that much to ask for?

The New Lou Pearlman Docu-Series Gives Me an Excuse to Rerun This Piece on Pearlman's Demented Memoir, Which Figures Prominently in It
The New Lou Pearlman Docu-Series Gives Me an Excuse to Rerun This Piece on Pearlman's Demented Memoir, Which Figures Prominently in It

In honor of the boy band-centric Turning Red , I am re-running a piece (compiled in The Joy of Trash) about disgrace boy band Svengali Lou Pearlman’s deranged and deluded memoir.

I'm Rerunning This Piece on Why Knock Rock, an Anti-Rock Expose, Because Its Message is More Timely Than Ever
I'm Rerunning This Piece on Why Knock Rock, an Anti-Rock Expose, Because Its Message is More Timely Than Ever

Is rock music a tool of the devil that will make your child commit suicide? According to the anti-rock Christian manifesto Why Knock Rock? the answer is hell motherfucking yes!

In honor of The Garfield Movie I'm rerunning this piece on a book compiling his first year of strips
In honor of The Garfield Movie I'm rerunning this piece on a book compiling his first year of strips

A laughless stroll through the first year and a half of Garfield (the disco era!) reveals that the insanely successful comic strip about the titular lasagna-loving, Monday-hating misanthrope has always been terrible.

Remember Reality Show Villain/Trump Sidekick Omarosa? No? Well, I'm Re-Running My Piece on Her Stupid Book All The Same
Remember Reality Show Villain/Trump Sidekick Omarosa? No? Well, I'm Re-Running My Piece on Her Stupid Book All The Same

Reality television villain turned Donald Trump advisor Omarosa is not here to make friends in her perversely unsatisfying “tell-all” Unhinged.

Doug Hutchison's Flushing Hollywood Is Unspeakably Dire Garbage and Wholly Irresistible
Doug Hutchison's Flushing Hollywood Is Unspeakably Dire Garbage and Wholly Irresistible

In this piece collected in The Joy of Trash, i eviscerate Doug Hutchinson’s appalling memoir, Flushing Hollywood.

Rachel Dolezal's Memoir In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World Is Poignantly, Tragically and Fascinatingly Misguided
Rachel Dolezal's Memoir In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World Is Poignantly, Tragically and Fascinatingly Misguided

The memoir of Rachel Dolezal is not convincing, at all. Batshit crazy, yes. Convincing? No.

Steven Seagal's The Way Of The Shadow Wolves is a Delirious Right Wing Fever Dream That Must Be Read to Be Disbelieved
Steven Seagal's The Way Of The Shadow Wolves is a Delirious Right Wing Fever Dream That Must Be Read to Be Disbelieved

In this piece from The Joy of Trash I write about Steven Seagal’s Q-infected Alt-Right novel Way of the Shadow Wolves, a book that’s even crazier and more fascist than a novel by Steven Seagal has any right to be.

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