Hm, something looks oddly familiar here. All photos via Ideologic.

​Almost certainly, yes! Back in September, SunnO))) leveled the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, punishing the crowd for more than two hours and three costume changes by the band's sometime frontman and vocalist, former Mayhem singer Attila Csihar. Our reviewer at the time attempted a couple of descriptions of what exactly Csihar spent most of the set wearing: "A mirror ball suit--somewhere between Voltron, Gwar, the Donnie Darko bunny, and Duchamp's Nude Descending A Staircase. With laser-pointer claws. A set-ending third costume took the form of a big armless potato bug." Here's SF/J's attempt:

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This continues. After threatening to pay home visits to quote-unquote journalists who make "cavalier statements" about him "personally or with my fans help" (this may or may not be the LA Weekly), Mr. Manson is still carrying on, posting at least one angry mass-bulletin missive via MySpace. Buddyhead, the web site at the center of this nontroversy, claims that since Sunday, Manson's amended his profile thusly:

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Manson's mug shot from 2001, after rubbing his pelvis on a security guard's head

Even funnier than that Best Music Writing-feted piece in the Onion from 2001--"Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People," a classic you should reread immediately--is that it's threatening to come true. After all these years, after all the mud that's been tossed at the shock-schlock-star, the man born Brian Warner is once again lashing out at the press--more specifically, the "soon-to-be-murdered-in-their-home press." His ultimatum: if another "journalist" writes another thing about him that "you wouldn't say to my face," he will show up at said journalist's door "personally or with my fans help." Boo!

The back story, it seems, is that our sister West Coast paper LA Weekly ran a cover story about the muckraking music web site Buddyhead, and how the once-seminal site has been retooled in the hopes to reclaim its dominance to the since-bloated landscape of music sites. The piece's lede shared this anecdote about one Christmas Eve that Buddyfigurehead Travis Keller spent with Manson:

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