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...Moby's mind, though, nothing mixes so well with the ecstasy culture as punk. As he plunged into "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," the dancers began to pogo. While an odd mix, it worked; the following Bond theme progressed from speed metal to pounding funked-up house. Not content with this excursion into rock, Moby decided that the show needed a guitar solo, and noodled for a couple of minutes. The crowd was variously amused and disgusted; some were upset that they'd been tricked into watching Def Leppard-style musical onanism. The pounding techno soon resumed...

Author: By Dan Visel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Punk on Ecstasy | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

WEAK POINT: Rube Goldberg-like take-offs and landings, utilizing a flimsy bicycle landing-gear arrangement. Pogo outriggers support the wings and drop away when the plane lifts off. On landing, "it's like riding a bike off the back end of a flatbed truck at 70 m.p.h.," says U-2 pilot Major Jeff Jungemann. As the plane descends, another pilot races behind it in a Chevy Camaro, radioing to the plane's pilot his distance to the runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...both. He can turn the simple act of listening into power aerobics. His laser stare becomes maniacally penetrating; turning to hear a question, he nearly gives himself whiplash. Then he speaks, with an overbearing precision that suggests Maxwell Smart ranting through a bullhorn. And now he's off again, pogo-sticking or jackknifing about, slipping into his impersonations of Clint or Geraldo or a female bodybuilder or a charred fire marshal. He's a cool doofus -- a grownup version of the class clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: World's Only Living Toon | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...Pogo is pulled from the Orlando Sentinel thanks to a new character, the wolfish Simple J. Malarkey, who bears an unflattering resemblance to Senator Joseph McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tooned Out | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...sellers at heavy-metal concerts, and a comic book celebrating his exploits ( has all but sold out to buyers. Most bizarre, collectors are paying up to $20,000 in posh galleries around the U.S. for Gacy's paintings of eerie clowns; the killer used to dress up as "Pogo the Clown" to entertain neighborhood kids between his bouts of murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dances with Werewolves | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

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