IF THERE WERE A RESTAURANT NAMED "ELEANOR RIGBY'S"...

...I think the menu might look something like this: ...

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YOU AIN'T NO PUNK YOU PUNK, YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THE REAL JUNK?: RUPAUL DRIVES WITH HENRY ROLLINS!

One of the great lessons in life is that, in a sense, "school" never ends. Our days of institutional learning end after a decade or two, but in order to develop to our highest potential, we must invest in the idea that there is wisdom to be gained everywhere, every day, from sometimes the most unexpected of sources. I must thank my lovely Miamian friend Liz Tracy, music editor at Broward-Palm Beach New Times, for bringing such a source to my attention...

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TWENTY-FOUR WEIRD RECORD COVERS FROM PORTAGE (WI.) THRIFT STORES!

One last post in this series of thrift/antiques store strangeness from my annual Wisconsin visit...Badger State, you have not let me down! Here are a few more oddball records -- please to enjoy! Apparently God also gave them his n' hers eyeliner. ...

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TEN WEIRD ITEMS FROM THE PORTAGE (WI.) ANTIQUES MALL!

I cannot get enough of people's weird old junk! And I mean "junk" as in knick-knacks and stuff, NOT "junk" as in "elderly genitals," let me make that SUPER CLEAR. Anyway, here's a few things I found in the Portage Antiques Mall as my annual trip to Wisconsin is coming to a close. Please to enjoy! A cookbook about SALT. From an oil company. That doesn't appear to BE a book. But may be something that contains SALT. MY HEAD HURTS. ...

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IPHONE PHOTO ROUNDUP: HERE WE GO 'ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH (WITH MISS TEN)

A lil' photo sweetness today with Miss Ten, picking mulberries at her Grandma's house in the woods of Wisconsin. Please to enjoy! ...

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THIRTY-THREE WEIRD KNICK-KNACKS AND ODDITIES FROM THE COLUMBUS (WI.) ANTIQUE MALL!

More from my annual foray into the vast land of nostalgic treasures that is the Columbus Antique Mall in Columbus, Wisconsin! There are thousands upon thousand of cool items there, but these are some of the oddballs that caught my eye. Click on the photos to enlarge! Please to enjoy! OH, HAI! ...

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TEN WEIRD RECORD COVERS FROM THE COLUMBUS (WI.) ANTIQUES MALL PLUS BONUS PIX FROM DOLLAR TREE!

For the second year in a row I was UNABLE to finish looking through the MASSIVE Columbus Antiques Mall in Columbus, Wisconsin. After completing Floors 2 and 3, my eyes began to blur and I think I  may have hallucinated all the knick-knacks on the shelves forming a evil porcelain army against me. Floor 1 will have to wait for another day. Anyway, I did get lots of pics for you -- enough to make for at least a couple of posts! Today, a few more...

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THIRTY WEIRD RECORD COVERS FROM THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL THRIFT STORE IN OCONOMOWOC, WISCONSIN!

I've been having such a wonderful vacation here in Wisconsin that I have been slacking on getting posts up, but I hope this MEGAPOST™ will satisfy! I did another thrift store run to the St. Vinnie's in my old stomping grounds of Oconomowoc, WI. the other day and was most pleased to find another boatload of unusual old record covers from the dusty past to bring you! Please to enjoy! With these hands...I SHALL MURRRRRRDERRRRR YOUUUUUUU! ...

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MY VERY SPECIAL ART STYLINGS FROM 1965 & 1966!

It is without question that my mom is a pack rat. Not a hoarder, fortunately, but definitely prone towards saving anything and everything that might someday be wanted by anyone at all anywhere. Also fortunate is that she saved quite a bit of my childhood memorabilia, from napkins I had at my 5th birthday party, to my horrific report cards from high school, to these, some of my early drawings from my preschool years. I thought that they were very...

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IPHONE PHOTO ROUNDUP: FLOWERS IN AUNT PENNY'S GARDEN

A very simple post today of a few photographs from Aunt Penny's garden in Wisconsin, a little moment of visual loveliness for your day. Please to enjoy! ...

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PUNK PHOTO PARTY IN PEWAUKEE! SEATTLE'S WIMPS VISIT IN WISCONSIN!

Remember when you'd be at the supermarket as a kid and you'd see your 1st Grade teacher there shopping with her husband? You'd be all, YAY I KNOW YOU, and then it would be OH WOW HOW WEIRD, DON'T YOU LIVE AT SCHOOL?, and then it would be both awesome and awkward watching her put Cheerios and a box of tampons in her cart. It was a little like that seeing my pals in fun punk band wimps as they pulled into my vacation driveway in Wisconsin in their...

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IPHONE PHOTO ROUNDUP: MISS TEN PHOTOGRAPHS A WISCONSIN VINTAGE CAR SHOW

Thanks to my dad, a lifelong car collector, I love cars. I love them, yet hate to actually drive them most of the time. But I certainly do appreciate a fine automobile, even if at something of a distance. During our annual family vacation to Wisconsin, we by chance happened to encounter a small-but-sweet vintage car show in a suburb of Milwaukee. I insisted we stop for me to ooh and aah over the shiny beasts, and my daughter Miss Ten took over on...

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THIRTEEN WEIRD RECORD COVERS FROM THE GOODWILL IN WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN!

Oh boy! I'm back in Wisconsin again for the next couple of weeks, and made my first trip to a thrift store since I got here late Tuesday night, looking for strange goodies from the past. Today the musty dusty record bin was my favorite location, and I procured some curious covers for you! Please to enjoy! I wonder if the song "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair" is on this album? ...

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PHOTOS & SHOW REVIEW: WHITE FENCE, JESSICA PRATT, TWIN PEAKS, & DUDE YORK @ NEUMOS, SEATTLE, WA. 8/4/13

Another night of awesome music at Neumos awaited for me on August 4th with a quirky quad-bill featuring one of my special favorites from the California garage-psych scene, White Fence, Tim Presley's main musical project. Seeing White Fence for me is an event -- I block all other activities from my calendar and nothing short of a raging, fiery Zombie Apocalypse could stop me from attending. Perhaps not even then. I don't think any zombie is a match...

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VIDEO: BREAKING BAD AS A MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSICAL

This is Marianne's pal Dena,  taking advantage of the fact that Marianne is stranded on a grounded airplane in Minneapolis to sneak one of my favorite TV shows into this space. I know for a fact that Marianne would very much prefer if she could have updated y'all tonight, but instead I'm all, like, "YO, BITCH, BREAKING BAD!" Please send Marianne your good thoughts, because flight delays suck bigtime. Breaking Bad returns to AMC for its final...

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200-WORD MICROFICTION: IT'S NOW OR NEVER

Audra’s annual two-week vacation, spent this year on a Caribbean cruise for “mature singles,” came to an end in a concrete-floored karaoke tourist bar in Nassau. The smell in the place was a spirit-dampening concoction: a mix of stale spilled beer, AXE Body Spray, and wet feet. She stubbed out her cigarette in an ashtray overflowing with butts and peanut shells with a weighted sigh. Monday morning would bring another 50 weeks of staring at shipping...

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