The Aging Rebel

Real Kurt Sutter Stands Up

There was a popular television show in the mid-fifties called To Tell The Truth. Someone who was vaguely famous and two utter imposters would try to outsmart a four person panel. At the beginning of each round the three guests would rise and announce something like: “I am Kurt Sutter.” “No, I am Kurt Sutter.” [...]

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Qui Es Mus Macho

suckmydick@sutterink.com writes to say: Rebel, Everyone is brave in front of their fucking keyboard. Rebel, and I use that term only as a handle, because clearly you are not one. Look it up in the dictionary, it’s that book on your shelf next to the “Wish I Was Somebody” Time-Life Series. A rebel is someone [...]

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Attention Pretty Bitch

And, now on the lighter side of the news. Way lighter. Despite all my most sincere efforts, Sons of Anarchy has still not been cancelled. In fact, it is starting to look like it never will be. Some guy in West Hollywood who is not Brad Pitt told me that Kurt Sutter’s homage to us [...]

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Waiting For Samcro

I am riding up through the high desert into the Eastern Sierras a week or so ago. The ride is always plagued with bugs. And, I have never owned a motorcycle with a windshield or a fairing or any of that crap so I am very aware of the bugs. At ninety miles an hour [...]

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They’re Baa-hack

That ridiculous thing, Sons of Anarchy, begins its second season – of a proposed seven seasons – tonight, Tuesday, September 8th, at ten o’clock Eastern. And apparently, 5.4 million of you have had this day marked on your calendars for ten months. Three weeks ago, according to the Manteca Bulletin, a “mind-boggling” number of the [...]

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Sons of Anarchy Revisited

Sons of Anarchy is officially a television sensation. You must be hooked. Everybody is required to be hooked. Numerous print articles and press releases tell us so. For example, a feature article about the show’s ginormous sensationality, by Los Angeles Times auto writer Susan Carpenter, has been popping up in whole and in part in [...]

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