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BAM!!! Did you catch what I did there!?!??! That's why that guy on the AC/DC page said about my writing, "YOU COULD CHOP OFF MY NUTS AND PLAY YANI AND I WOULDENT CHANGE MY MIND. NO ONE WILL EVER COME CLOSE TO THIS SHIT, THIS IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!!" He was using the term Back In Black as a sort of euphemism for my writing.

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I've heard certain people on both the right and left accuse you of promoting (through your books) social Darwinism, self-centered "pleasure first" Satanism and Nazi-style brutality as "cool" underground ideas to be bandied about. In the name of setting the record straight right at the beginning, would you mind briefly explaining your own political/philosophical beliefs and how they relate to the material you publish?

I spoke today with Hedi el Kholti, a designer I'm using who's also a friend, about my "aesthetic," and problems we've been facing in regards to what we do. This country, particularly now, is so absolutely sheltered/cloistered/na‹ve/stupid/evasive, the best and most interesting work to be done is simply telling the truth as best you can.

There is practically no way a human can survive on this planet without evincing some sort of political incorrectitude, and I'm not talking about Bill Maher, either. I live in Los Angeles, where at this moment an incredible thing is taking place, unlike anything else in the history of mankind, according to historians - and even a quite PC Asian bureaucrat who headed a race relations office for the City of Los Angeles, whom I interviewed for a column I once wrote for the San Diego Reader ("HelL.A."). This bureaucrat told me that there has never been such a reorientation of ethnicities and races in the human history, as in the City of Los Angeles, and the State of California, or on a broader level, what's going on in the United States. Personally, I find the Balkanization of the races here fascinating, but it truly is, at a wide-angle view, a very curious thing that no one can look at with honesty without being termed a racist or a neo-Nazi. Next spring I'm publishing a book version of a cholo gang magazine by one Reynaldo Berrios called "Mi Vida Loca." Reynaldo is all about "Aztlan" -- the idea that brown-skinned people will retake North America from the honkies in any way possible. It occurred to me that this is not a good time to be light-skinned. The planet is overpopulated, and with that overpopulation comes the ruin of the planet. The melting of glaciers, the overproduction of radioactive and other toxins. Overfishing. The ruination of species diversity. Deforestation. The prospect is not a good one, not one that makes me want to add to the problem by reproducing, or to create more honkies when it's quite apparent that the honkies' time is up. And rightly so. They fucked up. But it does not appear to me that the brown skinned have any interest, or even acknowledgement of, planetary problems. In the not too distant future I see a fight between people in vastly overpopulated areas, for water and food. The moneyed will have the ability, as they do now, to shelter themselves here and there, but it won't be a pleasant situation for most people alive. This apocalyptic scenario is a basic recognition of current affairs, and how they're playing out.

The idea of Social Darwinism, as purveyed by Boyd Rice, is optimistic, I think. In any other era, a country that is overcome by immigrants of racial difference would have been called an "invasion." I live in a Mexican gang neighborhood, gunfire every night. Many of the Mexicans who move here aren't aware that we have flush toilets, so many deposit their babies' shitty diapers in public places. In my neighborhood, it seems to be a disadvantage to use the English language. All the billboards, store signs and signs at places like the Department of Motor Vehicles are in Spanish. All public music is Noteno mariachi stuff. What might happen when these people cannot get food stamps or welfare? What about a simple drought, or severe economic situation? Will everybody be nice and pleasant, and talk about Jennifer Lopez fondly? I don't look forward to those times, but I do have front row seats to the apocalypse.

Reading too many of your books has made me extremely susceptible to conspiracy theories. Specifically, as a NYC dweller who had the displeasure of experiencing the 9/11 attacks first-hand, I've become kind of obsessed with the idea that Bush and the CIA knew something was going to happen and they allowed it to happen to further their agenda in the middle east. Has anybody submitted a manuscript about this? What is your opinion about these ideas and of Bush & his regime in general?

It is no secret that the American government was warned in advance of the 9/11 operation by Israeli intelligence, and by at least several other countries. It came out that an FBI operative found out about the operation and warned his higher-ups. It's also no secret that the Bin Laden family has close business ties to Bush's family, and that FBI and CIA investigations into Osama Bin Laden were called off at the highest levels. What does this mean? Either that this country is so appallingly out of touch and fucked up that even the most basic intelligence gathering cannot be done, or that there is a corruption so appalling at the highest possible levels that Idi Amin looks like Gandhi by contrast. Or perhaps 9/11 was welcomed in as a plan to assist the Bush administration and its corporate backers. It's hard to believe this, but it's obvious that no one can become President without corrupt assistance. I thought the Clinton Administration was bad enough, but the Snitch Culture being welcomed into our country by its power structure promises an end to this thing known as a constitution. I've always hated this rah rah patriot stuff, but if you look at who brought in the American constitution, people like Paine and Jefferson, they were great people with great ideas. Paine was considered a Satanist in his day and age, and Ezra Pound wrote of Jefferson with admiration as being like who? Mussolini! Paine was a full-fledged atheist. Those two guys would have been hated by the likes of John Ashcroft. What we have here is an end of an empire, and probably a shabby and shitty form of apocalypse.

I imagine you must get a lot of correspondence and submissions from kooks so out there that you aren't even sure what to do with them. Do any in particular stand out? Any submissions that you felt were a little too sick or unbalanced to publish? Or any creepy fans stalking you or anything like that?

There have been some idiot Satanists who think they're the reincarnated Anton LaVey, or better (or worse). Strangely enough, they feel that their publishing chances become greater if they threaten my life when Feral House fails to publish their copy of the Satanic Bible. Anton LaVey was a great and entertaining guy, but I'm sorry to say that there are a lot of self-declared Satanists who are drawn to being considered the evilest guy on earth. And in Norway there were black metallers who hated LaVey because they considered him a humanist. Which he may well have been, actually.

Of the groups and individuals you have covered in your own books, which did you feel were (a) the most despicable/corrupt and (b) the most misunderstood and deserving of respect that they were unable to garner because of their socially unacceptable beliefs?

Quite often the people considered "evil" and "rotten" by the mainstream, like Anton and Boyd Rice, and Michael Moynihan, and Peter Sotos, are really the kindest and most dependable guys I've ever met. But people who need to be considered do-gooders, and are painted by the mainstream press as being so wonderful and beautiful, are often extremely stuck on themselves, and are focused on their reputation. Anything they do tends to be for reputation, for show. And on a personal, one to one level, quite often they're pieces of shit.

This is not saying anything new, but I'm totally distrustful of politicians. Only sociopaths are able to be politicians.

How did your solo CD come about? Are you friends with Poison Idea? Is there any reason that you decided to focus mostly on cover tunes rather than original material? As much as I get a kick out of your covers (and they DO make me think twice about the lyrics, hearing you perform them!), I think your originals are the most interesting tracks on there. They made me hunger for more!

When I moved to Portland for a few years in the mid-90s I befriended the Poison Idea crew, and enjoyed recording some things with them. The first recording, made with Boyd Rice, was inspired by this cut-out record I found for 29 cents, a Rounder Records LP with retarded children writing and singing. The recording was pretty remarkable despite the cheesy Casio keyboard from their teacher/overseer at Widney High in South Central L.A. I found this LP at a time when every celebrity made sure to be seen hugging and kissing retarded children on Special Olympic broadcasts. Billboards showed Down's Syndrome victims making burgers at McDonalds. Society was going through its retard obsession, and celebrities combated one another to appear the most tard-friendly. The weirdness, the hypocrisy of it, astonished me: the attempt to make the retarded appear just like you or me, except that they are better because they have overcome all disadvantages. Like cretinous Supermen. But then when they're put on television shows and on records, it's a freak show, particularly the result of the pretense of normality. So we had this super-weird spectacle for a number of years, but it has since been put out to pasture - huge lies told to celebrate victim culture, against common sense and Darwinistic truisms. So we could see Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian Oak, hugging and kissing drooling, cross-eyed kids running laps. It confused and astonished me. What were we celebrating? Who was the new superman? Schwarzenegger or the drooler? Thus began my group The Tards, with our first single put out by Sympathy for the Record Industry as an eight-inch EP, complete with a manifesto enclosed by the retarded superhuman superheroes, who announced the high-IQ as being their enemy. The EP included a picture of a new doll I found: Dolly Downs, manufactured to help us all love, fondle and wish to become retarded. Exotica was also becoming a big fad at the time, so Boyd and I did a version of "Quiet Village," which had Down's Syndrome superheroes doing bird calls.

My solo CD project was put out by Frank Kozik's now defunct Man's Ruin label. It had some Tards songs, and things recorded for Boyd's project, Hatesville, which was our take on Rod McKuen's Beatsville record, and some assorted nonsense. I agree with you that my own songs came out better than expected.

What was the idea behind the SWAT project? I first heard it right when it came out (as a huge AmRep fan) and, not yet knowing who all you folks were, was extremely confused! I understood that it was a "piss-take," but it was such an ODD one! Whose idea was that anyway?

The SWAT project occurred after doing an article on a SWAT convention I attended in Orlando, Florida. This was a time when domestic police was becoming militarized, and it truly disturbed me that those in charge were so big on making soldiers of cops. I went to that convention to try and find out what was going through these guys' heads. It turned out that they absolutely believed that they were different and better than your average civilian. They also distrusted, but quietly, the federal organizations, like ATF and FBI. It seemed like it would be interesting to record an album as if it were done by SWAT cops. I had recorded the police scanner during the LA riots, and used it to convert "Shaft" into "SWAT." Trucking music, the pro blue collar genre, seemed the right sensibility for some songs, and thus my number, "Formula 409," a take off on "Phantom 309." Jim Goad did a great version of "In The Ghetto," and I did "The Pusher" as if William Shatner was recording it. Jerry A recorded a couple numbers taken from a pro-cop record, and we didn't change more than a couple lines in those two songs, one of which celebrated domestic abuse, cop style. Nick Bougas ended the record as if he were a Southern cop doing Karaoke. People couldn't understand whether the record was pro-cop or just an obtuse putdown. In the end it was a little of both. I liked the chameleonic sensibility. If you understand something right off, it doesn't make you curious, or make you think, or make you consider what the hell is going on. How many times do you listen to a record, and it makes you do that?

Are there any books that (a) you've had second thought about having published or (b) passed on, and now regret that you did?

I have been guilty of publishing books that are primarily the result of doing a friend a favor, rather than being personally interested in the project. And those have been, I believe, the lesser Feral House tomes. I don't recall passing on a book, and later seeing it published by someone else, though I was offered that George Bush biography, Fortunate Son, the one that was canned by St. Martin's Press and later published by Soft Skull Press. At the time I was dealing with a lawsuit from the former Deputy Chief of the FBI, and I didn't know whether or not I'd be in business, and didn't feel ambitious enough to take on additional harassment from those in power.

Does anything shock you at this point? Or is there anything that would be too disturbing for even you to publish?

I felt that the book I published by G. J. Schaeffer, Killer Fiction, was the masturbatory fantasies, and perhaps reality, of a cop turned serial killer. It is truly an astonishingly vile book, and I published it as a challenge, a challenge to myself. I'm glad that it drifted out of print.

Would you mind quickly recounting the trouble you got into because of the Oklahoma Bombing book you published? How did that case end? Has any other book you've published caused that kind of furor or legal trouble? Or have any groups/individuals you've covered come back to you in anger about how they were presented?

I was forced to settle the lawsuit initiated by Oliver "Buck" Revell, the second most powerful man in the FBI, who had just retired, and perhaps had done so to initiate the lawsuit against Feral House for the Oklahoma City Bombing book - the book said by Gore Vidal in Vanity Fair to be by far the best one on the subject - and now I see articles in the LA Weekly and other publications bringing up what the book did about McVeigh and Nichols' associations with Islamic terrorists. For some reason, PEN, ACLU and First Amendment foundations didn't want to support Feral House against this lawsuit. I was quite na‹ve for not carrying, at the time, legal insurance. The minimum amount demanded by a decent lawyer was a retainer fee of eighty thousand dollars. I couldn't come up with this kind of money, so was forced to settle and put the book out of print. My distributor told me that FBI operatives came to their warehouse to make sure the remaining copies were destroyed. But the book is available online as a free download. This lawsuit was not a pleasant thing, and I was shocked and upset that the ACLU and other good liberal organizations did not think it worthwhile to support a small publisher in a lawsuit taken out by the FBI to destroy a book with information unfavorable to them. The lawsuit seemed to happen very quickly after good reviews started to happen.

I could tell you about other religious organizations that came after me because of a book I published, but I do not wish to create further trouble at this time.

My wife, who is as into Feral House product as I am, insists that there is NO WAY that you are not being watched by.. well, SOMEBODY! FBI, CIA, etc... because of the incendiary material that you choose to publish. Is there any truth to this? Have you ever suspected or seen proof that you are being watched?

See above.

On a not-at-all related topic, what pieces have you had published in Hustler? The wife and I have been buying, reading and selling back issues for quite some time, and I'm curious whether I might have read something of yours before I became aware of who you were.

I published quite a few articles in Hustler and Chic, both under my name and pseudonyms in the late 80s to 94 and 95. If you read a number of those magazines, you would have no doubt read my pieces, too.

Another side of Feral House that isn't as often discussed is the awesome entertainment product you release -- lots of fantastic music books, books about Ed Wood and Japanese monster movies, funny stuff like Sex, American Style and Cad -- do you feel that this work represents kind of a "lighter side" of Feral House or do these books attract your attention because certain aspects fit perfectly into the Feral House ethos? (i.e. the record company manipulation detailed in Bubblegum Music.... the decadent violence, sex and drug use in the hardcore and Germs books, etc)? On that note, actually, how exactly would you define the Feral House philosophy?

Most of the books I publish must interest me, personally. And they must be non-fiction. It's curious to contemplate that there's some sort of "ethos" to the books, as if you can tell that a book about The Germs and another about Snitch Culture would be published by the same party.

I'm ashamed to say that I have not yet read your latest book, Extreme Islam, but since I have a backlog of LITERALLY (no joke here) 18 Feral House books that I haven't read yet, as well as about the same number of non-Feral House books that I've picked up during the same period of time, I hope you will forgive me for this. I'll get to it, I promise! My question is -- Would you mind describing the book and the kind of research that you put into it? It seems, in theory at least, a bit different from your usual Apocalypse Culture, Cult Rapture-type books.

Americans are ostriches. Extreme Islam prints the most essential texts against American beliefs and behavior. It also provides background on the Osama Bin-Laden type Muslim, who promotes an internationalist Qur'an-based political system, as opposed to those who are nationalists and would do business with countries whose behavior and beliefs are seen as evil by the Qur'an. Extreme Islam is very much like Apocalypse Culture in that it covers extremist sociology. I always had an interest and collected extremist Islamic material, particularly because it's so hard to find on these shores. One would think that 9/11 would provoke many books like Extreme Islam, but it's the only book that provides such an illustrated compilation. I'd like to put out a revised edition; there's so much material I've come across since its publication, and it could be laid out better. But, again, it's the only thing out there that does not condescend to the reader, and allows him or her to make up her own mind based on primary material.

To a person who has never read a Feral House book before, which one book would you recommend to hook them? Are there one or two books that you think represent the absolute finest works you have to offer?

I think Death Scenes is like The Wisconsin Death Trip (see http://www.wisconsindeathtrip.com/), a classic book of the kind. There are a couple others that I think will be considered classics, in the long run.

Are there any current public or underground figures that you particularly respect for their individualism and refusal to conform to popular ideas that don't appeal to them?

I'd like to contemplate that question and provide an answer later.

What's in the future for Feral House? Any great books coming out that we may not know about yet?

There are several dozen books contracted for, and hopefully they'll be great. I'm also looking into publishing DVDs.

Would you mind quickly describing what we can expect from your upcoming work It's A Man's World, slated for December release?

When pulps dissolved in the late 40s and early 50s, their crew went elsewhere, particularly to a new form: men's adventure magazines, whose reading audience were ex-vets and grizzled war-oriented audiences after WWII and during the Korean War. These men's adventure magazines had some of the most outrageous art I've ever seen, and these will be reproduced. The magazines really give a good idea of the time and place of America in the 50s and early 60s, the patriotic fever not unlike what's going on now, but strange ideas about gender and race, too.

Final Question: Do you feel that the greatest mistake in your life was letting the president of the Girlfriend That Last Saw Elvis Alive Fan Club pass through your fingers (see Cult Rapture)? Do you still keep in touch with this beautiful, sensitive woman?

Call me an optimist. I think I'll overcome my sorrow about this some day.

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As Complete A List of Feral House Books As I Can Find (Bold are books I have read and enjoyed and, in the interest of pure honesty, underlined text means that I personally couldn't get into the book, but that doesn't mean you won't!)

15 to Life: How I Painted My Way to Freedom

35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush, The

50 Reasons Not to Vote for Bush

Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections

Aleister Crowley And The Ouija Board

American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen

American Hair Metal

American Hardcore: A Tribal History

Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate

Apocalypse Culture

Apocalypse Culture II

Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic's History of 20th Century Graphic Design

Assassinations, The: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X

Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion

Beneath The Underground

Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica

Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult

Black Metal Coloring Book, The

Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator

Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story

Bomb, The: The Classic Novel of Anarchist Violence

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears

Cad

Carnivals of Life and Death, The

Caught in the Crossfire: Kerry Thornley, Oswald and Garrison's JFK Investigation

Chemtrails, HAARP, and the "Full Spectrum Dominance" of Planet Earth

Cholo Style: Homies, Homegirls and La Raza

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore

Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes

Cold-Blooded: The Saga of Charles Schmid, The Notorious "Pied Piper of Tucson"

Command to Look, The: A Master Photographer’s Method for Controlling the Human Gaze

Compleat Motherfucker, The: A History Of The Mother Of All Dirty Words

Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art & Culture

Cosmic Retribution: The Infernal Art of Joe Coleman

Covert War Against Rock, The: What You Don't Know About the Deaths of Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael Hutchence, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, John Lennon and The Notorious B.I.G.

Cult Rapture

Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA

David Bowie: Color the Starman

Death Confetti: Pickers, Punks, and Transit Ghosts in Portland, Oregon

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles, The: A Memoir by Francoise Hardy

Devil's Notebook, The

Disco's Out...Murder's In!: The True Story of Frank the Shank and L.A.'s Deadliest Punk Rock Gang

Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks

Dying for the Truth: Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War by the Fugitive Reporters of Blog del Narco

Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It

Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant

Essential Mae Brussell, The: Investigations of Fascism in America

Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism

Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Fix Is In, The: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NHL and NASCAR

Future Primitive Revisited

Garden Of Peculiarities, The

Gates of Janus, The: An Analysis of Serial Murder by England's Most Hated Criminal

Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda

Graffiti Underworld: Villains, Vandals and Visionaries

Grandpa's Ghost Stories

Grandpa's Witched Up Christmas

Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient: An Insider's Look at Supermarket Tabloids

Guy Debord, Revolutionary: A Critical Biography

Hard-Core: A Life of My Own

Hi Jax & Hi Jinx: Life's a Pitch, Then You Live Forever

Hipster Hitler

Hollywood's Hellfire Club: The Misadventures of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn and "The Bundy Drive Boys"

Horizontal Collaboration: The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946

Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin, The

I Cried, You Didn't Listen: A Survivor's Expose of the California Youth Authority

Influencing Minds: A Reader in Quotations

Inside The Shadow Government: National Emergencies and the Cult of Secrecy

Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People, The

Isis and Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon

It's A Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps

I've Got Something to Say

JFK & UFO: Military-Industrial Conspiracy and Cover-Up from Maury Island to Dallas

Jim Goad's Gigantic Book of Sex

Killer Fiction

Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief

Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas, The: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil

Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI

Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead: Color the Ace of Spades

Lexicon Devil: The Short Life and Fast Times of Darby Crash and the Germs

Liartown: The First Four Years 2013-2017

Lie Too Big to Fail, A: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

Lords Of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground

Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story Of The Process Church Of The Final Judgment

Magician's Dictionary, The

Making of a Serial Killer, The: The Real Story of the Gainesville Murders in the Killer’s Own Words

Manson File, The

Mexican Pulp Art

Ministry of Truth, The: Kim Jong Il's North Korea

Mohammed Code, The: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram

Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!: The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films

Mudd Club, The

Muerte!: Death in Mexican Popular Culture

Muhammad Ali: The Greatest Coloring Book of All Time

Neighbors From Hell: An American Bedtime Story

Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr.

Octopus, The: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, The

Opium for the Masses: Harvesting Nature's Best Pain Medication

Orgasmatron: The Heavy Metal Art of Joe Petagno

Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine

People's History of Civilization, A

Philosopher's Stone, The: Alchemy And The Secret Research For Exotic Matter

Pills A-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation into Pill Marketing, Art, History & Consumption

Poop Culture: How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product

Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture

Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City

President and the Provocateur, The: The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald

Prince: The Coloring Book

Prisoner Of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine

Professional Paranoid, The

Propaganda and Holy Writ of The Process Church of The Final Judgment

Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium

Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A.

Pulp Macabre: The Art of Lee Brown Coye's Final and Darkest Era

Pure Filth

Republican Party Animal: The "Bad Boy of Holocaust History" Blows the Lid Off Hollywood's Secret Right-Wing Underground

Revival: Resurrecting the Process Church of the Final Judgement

Revolution, The: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R.U. Sirius

Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society

Rollerderby: The Book

Room With A View

Rose City Vice: Portland in the 70's — Dirty Cops and Dirty Robbers

Running On Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization

Russ Columbo And The Crooner Mystique

Satan Speaks!

Satanic Witch, The

Scorched Art: The Incendiary Aesthetic of FlameRite Zippos

Secession: How Vermont and All the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire

Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult

Secret King, The: The Myth and Reality of Nazi Occultism

Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Depravity

Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History

Secret and Suppressed II: Banned Ideas and Hidden History Into the 21st Century

Secret Life of a Satanist, The: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

Several Ways to Die in Mexico City

Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons

Sex, American Style

Sex, Lies and The Dirty

Sexuality, Magic and Perversion

Shelley Unbound: Uncovering Frankenstein's True Creator

Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt

Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman

Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties

Snitch Culture: How Citizens are Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State

Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine

Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes

Strength Through Design: Third Reich Propaganda in Print

Struwwelpeter: Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks

SuicideGirls

Tales of Times Square

Tape Op: The Book About Creative Music Recording

Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber"

Theater of Fear & Horror: Expanded Edition: The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962

Thee Psychick Bible: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Third Mind ov Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

Top Secret Tourism: Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases, and Other Places in the United States You're Not Supposed to Know About

Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs: The Classic Martyrology

Transhumanism, a Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas

True Vampires: Blood-Sucking Killers Past and Present

Trust No One: The Secret World Of Sidney Reilly

Twilight of the Machines

Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes and Trade Secrets: The Classic "Do-It-Yourself" Book of Practical Everyday Chemistry

Under an Ionized Sky: From Chemtrails to Space Fence Lockdown

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, A Chicana Punk Story

Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America

VJ Book, The: Inspirations and Practical Advice for Live Visuals Performance

Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimer Berlin

War Is A Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General

War Nerd Iliad, The

Weird World of Eerie Publications, The: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds

When Sex was Dirty

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story

White Nationalist Skinhead Movement, The: UK & USA, 1979-1993

Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?

Why Bother?: Getting a Life in a Locked-Down Land

Why Hope?: The Stand Against Civilization

X-Rated Bible, The: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures

Ye-Ye!: Girls of ‘60s French Pop Music

You Can't Win

You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos

POST-SCRIPT: After reading my introduction and noticing my objection to the Tards single, Parfrey forwarded me the liner notes to the record so that I would see that it really isn't about making fun of the developmentally disabled. In fact, in a weird way, it completely trashes NORMAL people, not "tards" (though the tracks I've heard could still be construed as "offensive," if you're looking to be offended!). Here are the liner notes:

"SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Mensas) Manifesto"

Black people, Jew people, Women people and all other complainer people: SHUT THE FUCK UP!

You think you've been wronged - look at us tards! We've been under the thumb for a lot longer than you have! We've been screwed over SINCE TIME BEGAN!

We've been weeded out as runts and monsters, snuffed out in the name of eugenic programs. But the so-called Liberals are committing a crime that is much worse. They trot us out in these so-called Special Olympic freak shows to make themselves feel like good guys, like they're doing something good for us. Liberals are parasites and hypocrites and will be snuffed out as they drive their Volvos or sit in heir armchairs looking at collaborator tards on TV!

Remember:

Smart people make the bombs and germs that kill people!
Smart people cut down the trees and kill the animals that destroy the environment!
Smart people are the cause of all the problems with the world today!
We say, as tards, it's time for us to make the decisions!
We say, as tards, it's time to cut up the smart people!

Even if our hands are deformed, we can shoot the guns and use the knives that kill you! Smart people, WATCH OUT! YOUR TIME IS UP!

Back to...... Prindle. That's all that needs to be said. Prindle. Sailboats, for example.