The Hollywood Caller: Lifetime to Inexplicably Show Us Saved By the Bell’s Off-Screen World

Unasked for television behind-the-scenes stories are unnerving; Channing Tatum to hit big with new gig; swimming with the fishes just required barbells; Vin Diesel needs a day off; Matt Lauer gets his own Iron Throne; Mel Gibson has a “Not Without My Daughter” moment; what’s a wedding without a little anticipation of the bursting consummation variety; Gordon Ramsay no longer cares about the state of your fridge; and American Idol laughs in your face and says, “Fourteen years, Beeotch!” Continue reading →

Crass Cold Case: The Missing Trio of Fort Worth

Missing Trio TexasOn December 23, 1974 three girls went to a Fort Worth, Texas mall to do some last minute Christmas shopping. Rachel Arnold Trlica, 17 and her friend Renee Wilson, 14 let their 9 year-old neighbor Julie Ann Moseley tag along as they ran holiday errands. The girls stopped at a local Army Navy store to retrieve some layaway items and then headed to a Sears store in the nearby Seminary South Shopping Center. 39 years later, they still have not returned and no trace of them has ever been found.  Continue reading →

Lawn Maintenance Q and A

P1010767Last Sunday, much dissatisfaction was expressed on Crass by lawn-mowers. The people, not the machines.

This is your chance to ask all your questions. I’ve maintained a bunch of lawns in a bunch of climates. Continue reading →

The Saddest (and Best) Sesame Street Song

Early Sesame Street specialized in melancholy.

Seven years before The Muppet Show even aired, Kermit The Frog’s muted acceptance of “Bein’ Green” appeared in Sesame Street‘s very first season in 1969 and appeared on the show’s first album, The Sesame Street Book & Record.

Continue reading →