Freaks in Wax
Please "enjoy" these creepy photographs of waxwork human oddities from the collection of the St. Petersburg Museum of History in Florida.
[Link: Gallery of Bizarre People][via]
January 9, 2009
Please "enjoy" these creepy photographs of waxwork human oddities from the collection of the St. Petersburg Museum of History in Florida.
November 20, 2008
The Life Exotic
Google is hosting an archive of mostly-unpublished Life Magazine photographs dating all the way back to the 1750s. As you might expect, it contains some amazing images. This 1960 shot of a 75-year old woman sipping a "Husband Killer" cocktail at `The Islander' restaurant in Los Angeles, and Nixon at a luau in Hawaii are my faves thus far.
August 21, 2008
A Little Night Tiki Photography
I whipped up an authentic Trader Vic's Navy Grog tonight, and tried my hand at making a shaved-ice cone with a straw stuck through the middle. Then I got out the old camera tripod, and took a few cocktail/mug photos down in the Hai'deaway.
July 13, 2008
My New Flickr Pool
I've created a new Flickr pool called, Exotic Cocktails and Tiki Mugs, dedicated to the worship, admiration, and consumption of exotic tropical cocktails, as well as the multitude of vintage Tiki mugs that were filled with these classic libations.
The pool is currently invite-only to keep things on topic, so if you like to photograph tropical cocktails and/or Tiki mugs, get yourself a Flickr account, add me as a contact, and send me an e-mail along with a sample of your work.
See you there!
[Link: Exotic Cocktails and Tiki Mugs]
June 24, 2008
Tiki Bar In A Suitcase
May 30, 2008
Hollywood Forever? Maybe Not
One of my PCL co-bloggers, Donna Lethal, recently wrote a rather disturbing article for the LAist about Brent and Tyler Cassity, the 2 charming Midwesterners who bought the long-neglected Hollywood Memorial Park, rebranded it "Hollywood Forever", then turned it into Tinseltown's coolest (as in room temperature) dirt-nap repository. The Cassitys are apparently under investigation for pocketing money earmarked for pre-paid funerals, and consequently, more than 100,000 people in several states may wind up being denied a final resting place in the brothers' upscale boneyards.
I blogged about H4ever back in 2005, when my friend X-8 took a set of beautiful dawn photographs of Johnny Ramone's grave marker. According to some accounts, the cemetery is now forcing everyone to register at the gate and forbidding photography, which would be a real shame.
February 24, 2008
Release the Hostesses
Found in a box: a 1969 photograph of my Pop surrounded by 8 lovely Korean hostesses at a party in Inchon. He looks like the cat who just got the cream, doesn't he?
February 3, 2008
Bagshot
[Link: Alice Bag's L.A. Punk Rock 1976-1981 Flickr Set]
August 12, 2007
The 5,000 Contract Hotties of Dr. T
There are always a bunch of great images over at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger..., but this publicity still from the classic Dr. Seuss film, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, jumped out at me today. It's always been one of my favorite movies. As a child, I watched it over and over on my parent's black and white teevee, never realizing that it was actually filmed in Technicolor. I finally got the chance to see it on the big screen in a revival movie house a couple of years ago in all of its multi-hued glory, and all I can say is that it's a revelation.
Did I mention how much I want one of those hand beanies?
[Link: Official trailer]
[Link: Elevator Dungeon Song]
[Link: Dungeon of Scratchy Violins]
[Link: Doe-Me-Doe Duds]
March 22, 2007
Obviously, Sadly, and Horribly Mistaken
"We all had a moment in our lives where we looked in the mirror and thought, 'Damn, I look cool! Looking back, though, it becomes apparent that we were obviously mistaken."
[Link: the I Thought I Was Cool Flickr Pool]