Because all cocktails taste more refreshing – and get you drunker – when there are little plastic toys hanging off the rim of the glass! Available from Archie McPhee for only $9.95 for a box of 50 tiny pink elephants! Cheers!
“Mmmm…Extra Greasy” Sent to me by my good friend Diane (aka “Diaaaahhhne!”), the Chicken Fried Bacon pictured above is part of an article on the Top Ten Most Unusual State Fair Foods. Sadly, this article – which also features Spaghetti and Meatballs on a Stick and Fried Avocado Bites – does not include any recipes. [...]
Best. Prom. Hair. Ever. Lasts night, after innocently clicking on a way old picture of 1980s UK dance band Kajagoogoo (I very much enjoyed their hit single, “Too Shy”) I accidentally discovered the website, Don’t Judge My Hair, and had to bookmark it immediately. This is a hilarious picture-based blog dedicated to poking the fun [...]
Wow, September is a huge month for me in Modern Drummer magazine. First of all, I’m really excited about and proud of my feature on Jon Karel of the experimental mathcore band, The Number 12 Looks Like You. In my ten-plus years of interviewing drummers, Jon was one of my very favorite interviews. I predict [...]
From The Machine Gun Ettiquette Tour, 1979 Rat Scabies (born Christopher Miller), former drummer for The Damned turns 52 today. In other news, Rat was the first famous musician I ever made out with! Memories!
Original Butcher Cover: Sells Today For Up To $10,000 On This Date in 1965: The Beatles’ 10th album Yesterday and Today went to number one on the Billboard 200 album chart for the first of five consecutive weeks. Of course, this album is most famous for its original raw-meat-and-dismembered-baby-doll-flaunting Butcher Cover, which was soon recalled [...]
If, like me, you write a fabulous blog that everyone loves wildly, you’ve probably registered that blog on the website Zimbio Dot Com. Because Zimbio is a great tool for promoting individual stories on your blog, and everybody wants as much love as possible, am I right? Well, just this morning I decided I was [...]
Here are a few interesting events that happened on this date. 1965: The Beatles’ second movie Help! premiered at the Pavilion Theatre in London . 1973: Led Zeppelin lost $180,000 in cash, income from two concerts at Madison Square Garden, when a thief stole the band’s safe deposit box from their hotel. The thief was never [...]
“Let’s Play!” Mr. Bacon’s Big Adventure is by far the most mouth-watering meatcentric board game ever created! As you move your bacon character along the path through Meatland you’ll have to navigate your way through areas like the Mustard Marsh, the Wiener Wasteland and the Sausage Sea. The first one to make it to the [...]
“I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down” On This Date in 1979: The Boomtown Rats had the #1 single in the UK with “I Don’t Like Mondays,” which appeared on their album, The Fine Art Of Surfacing. Boomtown Rats’ vocalist Bob Geldoff was inspired to write the song after hearing about the Cleveland Elementary [...]
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