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Jackass: Who is Rudimentary Peni?
Me: An old punk band.
Jackass: (As he looks at the Ted Nugent Patch) Who is Ted Nugget?
Me: You mean Ted Nugent? He is a guitar player from the 70s.
Jackass: Oh I wouldn’t know who he is, I was born in 1979. Can you get any of those Exploited patches that say “Raunch Presents” on the bottom? … read more
The Moroccan Revisited
From Issue 200, August 2005
Scenes thrive around a center, be it a band, label or venue. Salt Lake venues have long been the catalysts fueling the city’s fire. One of Salt Lake’s greatest, most influential and most unknown venues of the not-too-distant past was the Moroccan, and barely anyone under the age of 24 here knows about it. … read more
Touch It, Turn It to Gold: Jared Gold
From Issue 192, December 2004
In a warehouse space full of clothing patterns, racks of jackets and skirts, boxes of scarves, enormous computer screens, sewing machines and genuinely interesting looking people, a man with a full-length wool coat and camouflage pants directs the operation. He is the Idaho-born, Los Angeles fashion scene-weaned, fashion world upstart Jared Gold. … read more
Soccer Dad: Trollin’ for Hookers
From Issue 202, October 2005
I was in a contemplative mood. It was a Thursday night and it had been three weeks since I had been dumped by my girlfriend of three years. I had The Cure’s “Pornography” in my head, even though I was listening to talk radio stories about the New Orleans disaster. There was a dying-summer scent in the air and I felt fucking old. … read more
Mike Brown’s Self-Help Column
From Issue 149, May 2001
Dear Mike Brown,
My problem is of a perverse nature. And judging by your last two articles, you are no stranger to perversity. I am a 17 year old male who likes to make love to fruit. I don’t really like to think of it as masturbation—it’s a much more intimate process for me than just firing one off in a Little America bathroom stall. … read more
Serial Killer of the Month: Carl Panzram
From Issue 120, December 1998
The criminal career of Carl Panzram has been matched by few others. By his own accounts, he murdered 21 people, committed countless acts of burglary, and his personal favorite accomplishment was that he did “forcible sodomy on more than a thousand men.” … read more
Stimboy: Hotelier to the Stars
From Issue 66, June 1994
Get out your number two pencils, because it’s time for a Stimboy pop quiz! Besides being variously referred to as “spokesmen of their generation,” what do Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins and Ian McKaye all have in common? Is it tattoos? No. Is it self-righteous spoken word “performances”? No. For those of you who haven’t guessed the thing that sets these three deep thinking alterna-icons apart from the pack is the fact that they have all been house guests at one time or another of yours truly. … read more
Radio Free 91 KRCL
From Issue 16, April 1990
If you’ve never listened to public radio before, you probably have a lot of misconceptions about it. Or perhaps you don’t know what it is at all. Tune your radio down to 91 and listen—not just one time, but at different hours during the week. It’s not the same thing every day. It’s always unique, always moving forward.
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The Unofficial Story of SLUG Magazine
From Issue 134, February 2000
For some god awful reason there seems to be some discussion as to the beginnings of SLUG Magazine. I don’t know how I got dragged back into this—I thought I was rid of all of this nonsense when I pawned this trash off on Gianni. … read more
Letters From the Editors – February 2010
SLUG celebrates 21 years by reprinting vintage content, selected by three top SLUG editors: Jeanette Moses, Ricky Vigil and Adam Dorobiala. With the help of SLUG’s trusty office interns, this insightful team poured over the mag’s 21 years of content in just a few short months. … read more