As I mentioned over on Facebook, if you were a kid growing up in Manhattan in the `70s and `80s and had cable television, you doubtlessly remember Al Goldstein’s “Midnight Blue,” which went from a sloppily edited assemblage of porn into a dizzying selection of advertisements for escort services, phone sex operations (“the Extra E is for….”) and…er…Sammy’s Romanian Steakhouse on the Lower East Side and finally into a bully pulpit from which Al Goldstein would rant emphatically about whatever was pissing him off that day.
In any case, after a long, strange life, Goldstein died on Thursday. Here’s a collection of his inimitable “Fuck You” rants. Not safe for work, obviously…
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