Author: ellibellemayhem

  "Jello Biafra" by Libertinus is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0      In the fall of 1987, I was a senior in high school in Vestal NY, where I had just moved from Athens, GA. I had been waxing punk for a couple of years but it was then after moving that I began to discover American west coast punk bands like X, Fear, and the Dead Kennedys.  In my senior public speaking class, a debate was assigned, and we were paired off and given a topic. My partner and I were assigned the then-recent subject of parental warning stickers on music.  I took the position of arguing against this, having followed the whole thing in the [...]

Upcoming media posts are in the works here at The Big Book of Mayhem, and our topic is sleep disorders. I live with Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, and our next video will dive into it in detail. Subsequent videos will focus on other types, but all of these disorders make the people who live with [...]

Unpopular opinion time:  I gotta say I actually enjoy spoilers. I enjoy knowing what the outcome is and watching the puzzle pieces fall into place one by one with that knowledge. I often read or view things multiple times just to do that. This for me holds true in any narrative medium, but especially in [...]

Written by Elli Belle Mayhem     This is about a band called Chumbawamba. They were around from 1982 – 2012. Many people have a variety of opinions about this group, both positive and negative. That is not what this story is about. This is about Chumbawamba as a history lesson, and this is about [...]

Always have a birthday cake big enough to share and small enough to avert a diabetic coma. (spoiler alert: Not actually diabetic. Might be after this cake.)