salome_st_john is wonderful

…for many reasons, but not least for dropping a bag of home made banana bread on my doorstep.

today’s best typo

In the Weekly ad for entertainment at our local Irish bar, the Harp, an act is listed as:

BAND OF ROUGES

I assume an evening of raucously delightful nancy-boys awaits us tonight!

post an album cover

NO TERRORIST IN CAR

Vintage 1970s terrorist memorability and tchotchkes are available from the Baader-Meinhof store!

Whether you buy it from them or not, I recommend How It All Began, a memoir by one of the Baader-Meinhof people. It’s fascinating and grim and important. But the bumper stickers are kind of cool too, in a post-everything way.

GIANT JELLYFISH ATTACK

400 KG SUPERJELLIES ATTACK TOKYO!

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Seaside communities in Japan have tried to capitalize on the menace by developing novel jellyfish dishes from tofu to ice cream, but for some reason the recipes have failed to take off.

HOW TO DESTROY THE UNIVERSE

DESTROY

I am going to this, and so are you. The L.A. show has Savage Republic, which is a worship object for me. I bet Blixa’s solo stuff is going to be enjoyably disturbing also. Shows in SD, SF, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver BC, even Calgary! Lots of variation in the stuff happening from night to night and city to city.

I wonder why F-Space isn’t going to Canada? Maybe they’re FELONIOUS.

I do like artnoise. And I’ve liked SR and Blixa for more than 20 years now, so it’s COMFORT NOISE for me now.

45 YEARS OF CHILDREN BLOWING MEAT WHISTLES

They were hand-delivered to youngsters all over the country by Little Oscar, the diminutive chef and OSCAR MAYER goodwill ambassador who appeared with the WIENERMOBILE at events throughout the 50’s and 60’s. The whistles were even occasionally offered in packages of OSCAR MAYER® Hot Dogs.

Throughout the 80’s, the WIENERWHISTLE seemed to have remained out of the spotlight. But then, another “first” occurred: the WIENERWHISTLE was given a whole new look.

Dug up from a 1999 memepool entry and the always helpful archive.org, THE WIENER WHISTLE HISTORY PAGE