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      This was one of my favourite episodes of Married With Children. Originally airing  on December 17th, 1989 this is the trash tv interpretation of the 1946 Christmas film, It's A Wonderful Life. Instead of Clarence the compassionate angel showing our depressed hero the value of his life we have Sam Kinison. How I love Sam Kinison! Our tv hero, Al, the Dad-of-Dads, is down in the dumps at Christmas. After his best efforts at giving something to his much-hated family he wonders what life would have been like without him. After seeing how much happier everyone would have been had he not been born he decides to live.       One of the highlights of this two-part episode is during one of Al's last-ditch efforts at earning some money to buy his family Christmas presents. He has agreed to babysit horrible children in the shoe store while their horrible mothers go shopping. While the kids are tied up with festive garland they demand entertainment. Al recites the overworked, una

Artwork by Soloman Media Welcome to Malabolgia. I had a chance to chat with Brandon Knott from Mongol recently about the upcoming release of their EP titled Warrior Spirit. For updates on what they're doing go here . To catch up on their previous releases and show some love go here . DK: Hey, Brandon, this is Dink. How's it going? BK: I'm good. I'm pretty excited, we just announced the new album. DK: Cool! You announced it on your website? BK: No, we just made the announcement. (laughs) DK: (laughs) Awesome. BK: It's pretty exciting stuff. DK: No kidding! I look forward to announcing it through my page as well. What's it called? BK: It's called “Warrior Spirit.” I feel like it embodies all the content of the album. DK: How long did it take to write? BK: We actually wrote everything quite a few years ago, we had a bit of material written right after our last album, which we released in 2014. It didn't take long to write, bu