PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2021, PART I
Put another log on the fire, top that tankard of coffee, tea and/or antibiotics, and kick back with Please...
PKM Official 10 Best Lists
PKM BEST OF THE REST FOR 2019
Since our readers have been more nice than naughty this year, we are presenting a second helping of...
PLEASE READ ME, TOO – MORE TOP STORIES OF 2018
Another 10 hot takes from 2018, a banner year for PKM Because we share Nigel Tufnel’s attitude that...
COUNTDOWN TO ECSTASY: THE TOP 10 PKM STORIES OF 2018
Kick back with a cup of coffee and dive into Please Kill Me’s Top 10 stories of 2018…...
10 Best Opening Lines
By Alan Bisbort -
As Ward Cleaver always said, “Boys, you never get a second chance to make a first impression”.
“All right, Curly, enough’s enough. You can’t eat the Venetian blinds. I just had them installed on Wednesday.”
Jack Nicholson, as the private eye Jake Gittes, says this to open Chinatown (1974), arguably the finest film noir film of them all.
Top Ten Best “New Dylans”
by Alan Bisbort -
1. Phil Ochs: The fact that this wholly original singer-songwriter—and contemporary of Dylan—was accused of being a “new Dylan” may have been what, in addition to despair over politics, drove him to suicide. He could never shake that shadow.
Top Ten Best FAMOUS LAST WORDS
By Alan Bisbort - LEE HARVEY OSWALD - "There ain’t nobody gonna shoot me."
The suspected assassin of John Kennedy said this to Detective James Leavelle, to whom he was handcuffed as he was led out of a Dallas police station.
Moments later, Jack Ruby proved him wrong.
Ten Best Books by American Prisoners
By Alan Bisbort - 1. On the Yard by Malcolm Braly: Arguably the best American novel written about prison life (if not for Braly’s other novels Felony Tank and Shake Him Till He Rattles). Think of it as King Rat, set in San Quentin State Prison.
LEGS MCNEIL’S TOP 10 LIST OF ANTI-VALENTINE’S DAY SONGS!
TOP 10 ANTI-VALENTINE'S DAY SONGS!
1. Troy by Sinead O'Connor
PKM’s TOP 10 LIST: Catastrophe Books
One night— many years ago— having temporarily gone off the rails, I phoned Legs McNeil to share...
PKM’s TOP 10 LIST: Scariest Supernatural Movies
1. THE EXORCIST (1974) The Devil Possesses Young Girl [Based on the great novel by William Peter Blatty.]
2. SALEM’S LOT—Miniseries (2004) Town Gets Taken Over By Vampires [Based on the great Stephen King novel.]