with a lot of Catholic kids.. many from Catholic middle schools. This sounds so very familiar. Some of the weird stuff the Catholic Church pulled then fueled irrational fear of our Catholic president, and I had an aunt that bought it all. Luckily my mom was grounded and smart and proclaimed it all "bullshit," as, I'm sure, our president did.

perhaps they could make a film about how wearing a white robe and praying to an invisible being caused their male priests to molest little boys and how the same odd clothing and invisible being led the men who managed the careers of the pedophiles to move them to a new unsuspecting community instead of turning them over to the cops for incarceration.

There's a lot of sin associated with catholics to be sure, and most of it by the church that purports to represent their deity.


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"Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon"

Features interviews with many of the old NatLamp staffers, and seques into the creation of "Saturday Night Live," "Animal House," etc. Lots of rare, never-before-seen video footage and photos, some of it from the private collections of NatLamp people. Fascinating stuff.


And look, Ma, I'm on-topic! The film says NatLamp finally shut down because of the Christian Coalition (remember them?). The famous "baby in a blender" pic, with Satan's finger ready to hit the "Puree" switch. After that appeared, the CC arranged a massive boycott of NatLamp's national advertisers.

I hoped they would mention the brouhaha over "Son O' God" comics. Where some wowsers in Massachusetts resurrected a 300-yr-old blasphemy to go after National Lampoon. But they didn't. Or maybe that was part of the overall CC boycott.

Here's the IMdb writeup:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674785/

I'll look for it.


A couple years ago I listened to the audio version of this:

That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream

Thanks Oregon Historical Society. I only watched a few seconds because of other duties pressing at hand, but even the credits at the beginning--sweet fuck, hold the camera steady; you're giving the baby Jesus a headache.

This whole idea that human minds are so malleable that looking at pictures of naked women, turns an otherwise wholesome American teen into a rapist and murderer in a matter of days is just pima faca stupid. And then of course, passing the blame off to the guy who sells the magazines in his "candy store" just makes it even weirder.

Doesn't have quite the flamboyance of RM, but it plays like a parody of a Dragnet Episode.