jackassworld

I have titled this post in loving memory to jackass 2.5, which basically consisted of leftovers from jackass number two, because this too is a leftover of sorts from the Danzig interview in Big Brother skateboard magazine issue #5 (1993) that was posted online yesterday. For what it is redundantly worth, this was one of 36 different “trading cards” that were packaged in sets of 12 and included as a “premium” with each copy of the magazine (you can see another for Jesus H. Christ here with a lot more of the back story behind their creation).

But all trivial and anal history aside, how funny is it that our week-long salute to Danzig has coincided plate-of-shrimp-style with an apparent hoax surrounding the “death” of former Danzig drummer Chuck Biscuits? Allegedly, some “blogger” took it upon himself to break the “news” about Chuck’s succumbing to a battle with throat cancer this past weekend, after which time numerous other news outlets jumped on the story and blindly ran with it. Good job, blogger! Welcome to the Age of the Interweb, a/k/a “The Decline of Western Civilization Part IV”, where just because something appears online it was surely handed down from God Himself and inscribed upon tablets of stone. In fact, just yesterday I received an email from abroad asking if the news that Wee-Man is dead was true—a similar such rumor to Chuck’s that first besmirched the web three or four years ago now, I think? Well, not that this required any great debunking, but rest assured he’s doing more than fine (see Wee below). I spent a few hours with him this afternoon with Kosick and Lauren talking about Big Brother, and he’s just taking care of business and getting ready to open his Chronic Tacos restaurant/bar in Redondo Beach, CA, this coming November.

(photo by Sean Cliver; Hermosa Beach, CA; 2009)