HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH

The levels of so-backkness are off the charts. In an uproarious edition of your favorite pop art pirate radio transmission, HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH, Poolhouse reveals a vulnerable piece of his childhood, before tearing the mask off one of the most sinister New Normal deceptions yet. Behind the spectacle of boomerfied AOL news slop lurks the grinning specter of the TQ.
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Poolhouse’s childhood AOL penpal, Batboy from Weekly World news
Cher and her “troubled” hot son, Elijah Blue Allman
She tried to put him in a conservatorship. Cher, you bitch!
A tale of Cher’s two sons with penises:
TRANS CHAZ BONO EYES RSKY SURGERY TO CONSTRUCT PENIS is such a 2013 sentence.
This one, however, is giving pissplay:
Chaz Bono, today:


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TWO THUMBS UP!A deceptively simple call-in show unfolds during an overhyped winter storm, drifting from unc rock and schizo-meteorology to AOL-induced boomer psychosis. Poolhouse and Oso dissect weaponized emotional hysteria masquerading as news, manufactured pop-cultural consensus, and the eerie purity that emerges from consuming uncut boomer slop. What begins as idle chatter mutates into a ruthless critique of cultural gatekeepers, microwave storms, Pitchforkification, Winona’s sorcerous impact on the 1990s, and Roger Ebert’s elaborate psyop to groom you through the TV (allegedly). Plus: have Canadian white-nationalist biker gangs gone libtarded? Poolhouse on Greenland’s infinite expanse—and an unforgettable celebrity encounter that rewired Oso’s childhood.
Cover Inspo:

The Old Minnesota State Flag:
Deemed problematic and updated in 2023 to..
The New Minnesota State Flag:

THE POLLY KLAAS / WINONA RYDER PRIMER:
Winona Ryder for Rolling Stone (shot by Joe McNally, not Terry Richardson), September 1994
Polly Klaas went missing, abducted from a slumber party during a home invasion in 1993:
Winona Ryder, a Petaluma-native, became an advocate for the missing teen during the search. She even has an entry in the Polly Klaas wikipedia (a surprisingly thin article imo).
Entertainment Weekly, 1993:
“Winona Ryder being comforted by Joe Klaas, grandfather of Polly Klaas” (Wtf)
Winona Ryder joins the search party for Polly Klaas, 1993. She is pictured with her friend and mentor, Robert Rich, former VP of PR for Marc Jacobs.
Another shot from the Rolling Stone shoot:

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THE GUY IN THE SPOT (OR, THE SECOND ICESTAFARIAN THEOPHANY OF PAUL J. HALCYON)
Poolhouse walks into the freezing night to confront the Watcher in the Woods once more. The Watcher is a silent, unjudging presence with red eyes and a long memory, from whom Poolhouse receives a cryptic transmission: Don’t forget. What unfolds is a chilly meditation on Edenic loss, octolectical bondage, amnesia after the Fall, and the collective human experience of time as a looping ritual of transfiguration—a ceremonial process the latest Here Comes the Backlash era represents. Within this radiotronic process, revelation precedes beginning, and the Kingdom is realized as neither ahead nor behind, but watching silently from beyond the twilight grove.
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THE AQUARIAN is a quiet transmission from inside the crystal, where Poolhouse speaks on alienation, surveillance, cosmic cycles, and the struggle to remain oneself in an algorithmic world.

Episode Mixtape:
Peech Boys NYC - Stay With Me (Tom Moulton Mix)
Aleems - Release Yourself (Dub Remix)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Mindstream



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There once was a Pool in a hall made of glass,
Preaching spirit and signal and algorithmic mass.
While machines stole his vibe,
He declared, “I will survive—
You can mine my whole life,
but you won’t ever get me, you ass.”

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