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Welcome to yet another installment of the ever popular and entertaining LETTERS TO BUDDYHEAD. For your enjoyment, we have once again carefully selected a very small portion of the mail we’ve received during the past months, and have posted it here for...

George Gurley 1987-1989 The Observer is born. I was still in college. In the summer I interned at CV (Career Vision) magazine, which was started by my then-stepfather, Shelby Bryan, and Marian Salzman, the editor in chief. I fact-checked and interviewed...

By Sean Beaudoin WHAT MAKES A MOVIE BAD-ASS? It may be the enduring question of our age. While there’s a clear distinction between Gene Hackman and every other tough guy in a hat, or El Mariachi and the subsequent Robert Rodriguez oeuvre, how do you...

From old-school nightclub veterans to alt-comedy legends, Patton Oswalt to Pryor, our picks for the greatest to ever grab a mic… Cavemen whacked one another in the nuts for cheap yuks, and Medieval fools jabbered in a flop sweat to keep from being beheaded...

Superfamous Clippings Marshall McLuhan, The Playboy Interview, 1969McLuhan’s observations — “probes,” he prefers to call them — are riddled with such flamboyantly undecipherable aphorisms as “The electric light is pure information” and “People don’t...