Who Knew A Crypt Keeper Could Die?

While she's no Rose Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been hospitalized in critical condition.


A rare survivors of Bing Crosby Syndrome (going from sixteen to sixty quicker than a birthday candle blows out), she's one of my favorite eccentric skullsicles, and I wish her well.

The Ballad Of Barn Owl Bill

I love, what appears to be, the huge scar running down the side of Barn Owl Bills face, from when this aristocratic bird decided it was tired of being handled by a déclassé third generation inbred hillbilly sasquatch...


...with bad hair.

Celebrity Jerky

Even wonder how cavemen blogged before the internet?

Let's set the Way Back Machine to 15+ years ago...

(from a scrapbook of tabloid clippings)

'Orrible Orvil & Co.

Due to my Mac mini dying, and the fact that it's the final four days before my move, I probably won't be posting as often this week, but I will do my best to pop up at least one a day.

Another gem I found weeding my collection:


Preceding the debut of The Addams Family t.v. show by a hair, this series (about a family of Frankensteins and their spookly hop-along-pals),was actually one of Gold Key's most successful, and outlasted the '60's monster fad by running continuously - with a few repints - for fourteen years!

Sweeney Nam Nam

The William Sweeney designed video for Birdy Nam Nam's The Parachute Ending.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TKIWhVzfI4&feature=related

Kindergarten

Decorative touches in a Russian children's park.

The Widowmaker

Old Halloween costume.

I was in character; a hitwoman, thus the seriousness.


Though, I also pose this way at weddings, sooo...


...and in an old paper mask I found yesterday while packing.

Because, apparently, I'm exactly the sort of gay who'd have Erte masks falling from the woodwork...

...lordy.

A Clown Car, Conversely: Bumpsies

The first thing I bought at The Funhouse.


A softwood laminated copy of the cover of Valrie McMahan's extremely rare
1929 childrens book.

Currently on sale for $595.00 in mediocre condition
at Biblio.com.

The world's funnier than I thought.

Belief Is Just A Beehive You Haven't Teased Up Yet

Sure, it seemed like a good idea at the time...


...three girls playing, good clean fun...


...but then those li'l girls grew up.

Birdsong & Balloons: Phyllis Diller

The Marxist Moonbot

This is your new best friend, Big Loo...






...beware his deadly nipple darts!

James Fogelson III

While I wouldn't push him away in a post apocalyptic society in which a third of the male population has been decimated (or left with a terrible complexion) by a nuclear holocaust, the very handsome Mr. Fogelson isn't my usual type...




...but there is something very simple/sexy about theses pics that caught my eye, and made me want to take a second look.... and then, a third... and...

Humpty Dumpty Goes To Macao

Egg Fu first debuted in Wonder Woman #157 (October 1965).

He was a Chinese Communist agent, inexplicably shaped like an egg the size of a house, with a Charlie Chan-like speech pattern, who used his mustaches as whips against his enemies.

-Wikipedia

If he wasn't so I Wear My Straight Jacket On The Inside insane of a character, he'd be slightly racist.





He recently made a comeback of sorts in D.C.'s exhaustion of a epic "52" under the name Chang Tzu, explaining that "Egg Fu" was one of his "Nine thousand and nine unmentionable names", and immediately killing a guard who laughs at the mention of it.

As you can see, time, Wonder Woman, and p.c. racial stereotype homogenization have not been kind to him...

Starstruck 1

Jacqueline Bisset
on the set of Speed Is Of The Essence
New York City
Monday, November 30th 1970


from Gary Lee Boas' Starstruck: Photographs From A Fan

Plastic Fantastic

Amazing, and I think, perversely effective.

I probably wouldn't even be able to shake a person's hand without wearing a latex glove if I'd seen this safe sex ad campaign at a early age.