
There will be a test.
twink: Beatnik Glossary, 1956



If you visit Seattle and you don’t go to Archie McPhee’s you are a fool. Thanks to them I now have a livestrong bracelet that says misanthrope instead. Take that, Lance Armstrong.


Benjamin Franklin


I shuffled my Q-Cards and asked them if they had anything to say about my trip to Seattle. I have to get up at about 3:30 in the morning and leave before 4:30, but hopefully I can sleep on the plane.


My daughter and her best friend both dressed up as vampires in pigtails this year. It was like watching a Hammer film done ala “Bugsy Malone.”
I’m aware I’ve posted too many images in a row here and it’s just purple post after purple post. Then again, it is such a luscious shade against that dark background.

My god, I have these spoons in my office as we speak. I think the box may even still be intact, back in my late father’s bedroom in Peoria.
Lawrence Welk Musical Spoons

Mmm, now what was I just saying about how much I love pop art? Check out this amazing installation work by Rose Skinner.


This is amazing stuff, but then I always did have a weakness for pop art.
Ron English’s “Immortal Underground” solo exhibit will open November 12th at Opera Gallery, 115 Spring Street, NYC.