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You Are Invited To Our Orgy.

September 8, 2010 The Opium Den Comments Off
You Are Invited To Our Orgy.

Don’t Think!

Polka fashion victim: Frank Yankovic

September 5, 2010 The Opium Den Comments Off
Polka fashion victim: Frank Yankovic

Jesus Frankie, where’d ya get that screaming pink ruffled puffy shirt?

How I spent my summer vacation

August 29, 2010 The Opium Den Comments Off
How I spent my summer vacation

At Samurai Camp we learned this handy knife technique is appropriate when:

a.) The pizza delivery girl is 10 minutes late and still insists she needs the coupon
b.) Your geisha forgot to move Lost in Translation up to #1 in the Netflix queue
c.) The concubine intern wants to borrow the car to pick up her freeloading brother at the airport
d.) Someone mistakenly thinks Sarah Palin is awesome

Van Halen. When They Were Kings, 1981

August 27, 2010 The Opium Den Comments Off
Van Halen. When They Were Kings, 1981

Ya see I been to the edge,
And there I stood and looked down.
Yeah I lost a lot of friends there baby,
I got no time to fuck around.

Vintage porn poster. The Devil and Mr. Jones, 1975

August 18, 2010 The Opium Den Comments Off
Vintage porn poster. The Devil and Mr. Jones, 1975

Jones is back and the devil’s got him.

The Grisly Murder of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten

August 14, 2010 The Opium Den Comments Off
The Grisly Murder of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten

Thirty years ago today, Dorothy Stratten, the beautiful 1980 Playboy Playmate of the Year was brutally raped and murdered by her estranged husband, Paul Snider. She was just 20 years old. Stratten’s death remains one of the most tragic and disturbingly heinous acts in all of pop culture history and it likely still haunts Hugh Hefner to this day.

Police records indicate Stratten was raped and sodomized, but it’s unclear if Snider had done so before or after he blew half her face off with a shotgun. There’s evidence she was duct taped to a homemade sex bench at one point during her brutal ordeal, and when Snider was finally finished with Stratten, he blew his own head off with the same shotgun. A housemate of Snider’s discovered the bodies several hours later in a state of rigor mortis and covered with hundreds of black ants. One can only imagine the nightmare that transpired between noon and the late evening of August 14, 1980 in a small Westwood bedroom not far from the LA freeway.

This gross-out Playboy parody appeared in the July 1984 issue of Hustler. It depicts the gruesome crime scene and mocks both Playboy readers and the insanely jealous Snider. It’s in poor taste even for Hustler, yet the image is so shocking, it’s hard to look away.

There have been two films made about Dorothy Stratten, Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and the excellent Star 80 (1983) starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts as the controlling Snider. Even more macabre is that Star 80 filmed scenes in the very same house in which Dorothy was murdered. Let us never speak of this again.

Lost weekend hideaway

August 13, 2010 The Opium Den Comments Off
Lost weekend hideaway

Hey you with the stroller. Move along or I’ll put a tiki curse on your fat ass.

Did Bruce Willis make a Banjo Party album?

July 31, 2010 The Opium Den Comments Off
Did Bruce Willis make a Banjo Party album?

Frank Ovanin my ass. That’s freaking Bruce Willis.

Surf inspiration for skater cool. 1975

July 23, 2010 The Opium Den Comments Off
Surf inspiration for skater cool. 1975

Larry Bertlemann, “Anything is Possible.” Dogtown has a hero.

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