This Saturday we’ll be attending Jeff Mach’s The Totally Normal Event, a benefit show for the SPARC Summer Experience which is a summer program for gifted youth combining elements of summer camp with the multilevel benefits of rigorous academic achievement. In other words a summer camp for really smart kids, much smarter than you and I most likely.
The event includes a tun of performers like The Dresden Dolls, Freezepop, The White Elephant Burlesque Society, The Mighty Mike Saga, Voltaire and many more.
You’ll also find all sorts of vendors and artists, including our big sister Grendel’s Den Design Studio offering spooky art, which we all know you dig.
There’s even a big interactive back-story and plot you can participate in throughout the event. Not too sure what it is but my bet is on some sort of fantasy based theme.
In any case it’s all for a good cause and you should go.
Only if I had a dime every time this happened to me. A beautiful woman goes to use the can and they mistaken my Old Ones Containment Unit as the toilet. But more than not it all works out in the end… *badda-bing*!
This fine piece of loveliness is one of the many creepy-yet-naughty delights by artist Ed Mironiuk. He lives in New Jersey, which covers the “it must be something in the water” theory as to why his work is is filled with latex, tattoos and squids. Gotta love it.
Remember the story about Darth Vader beating up two Jedi Church nerds over in the U.K.? Well it’s his lucky day as he has been spared from jail time. His name is Arwel Wynne, and to some he is a hero. To other the scourge of all Jedi.
For those who don’t remember this sordid tale, let us recap:
Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones — aka Master Jonba Hehol — and his 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones — known as Master Mormi Hehol, with a metal crutch, during the filming of a documentary about the church. Jonba and Mormi then press charges against his Dark Lord, taking him to court for assault.
Wah and boo-hoo I say.
But the Dark Side of The Force be praised, Holyhead Magistrates’ Court sentenced Hughes to two months in jail but suspended the sentence for one year. Hughes was also ordered to pay $195.00 to each of his victims and $117.00 in court fees.
In celebration of this auspicious day I give you the actual beat-down, which really wasn’t much of one. More like a light tap. Boy are those Jedi sissies.
The New York Times has published a pretty swank article about SteamPunk and its fashion, art and music. An excerpt from the article:
Quaint to some eyes, or outright bizarre, steampunk fashion is compelling all the same. It is that rarity, a phenomenon with the potential to capture a wider audience, offering a genteel and disciplined alternative to both the slack look of hip-hop and the menacing spirit of goth.
The elaborate mourning dresses, waistcoats, hacking jackets and high-button shoes are goth’s stepchildren, for sure, but the overall look is “not so much eyeliner and fishnets,” said Evelyn Kriete, who sells advertising space for magazines like Steampunk, The Willows and Weird Tales, and who manages Jaborwhalky Productions (jaborwhalky.com), a steampunk Web site.
Good to see the efforts of some friends being recognized.
The above freaks (their from California, what else could they be) The Creature Feature are one of my favorite bands of the moment. Their sound is somewhere between a hellish carnival and a sadistic cartoon. Which obviously means I have to share with you all. The above video is for the song Buried Alive from their album The Greatest Show Unearthed. It’s not necessarily an original video, focusing mostly on the band in a dark setting full of gothyness, shadows and some sort of Nosferatu skulking about. But there is a latex-clad bombshell slinking about so it’s all good.
Founding member Barney Jones, also know as Jonba Hehol, of the Holyhead Jedi Church said that he and his cousin were attacked by Darth Vader while tending their garden of Jedi lameness for some documentary.
As Barny, err I mean Jonba describes it: “Myself and my cousin were doing some filming for a documentary on the Jedi Church, when we were attacked.
“Someone jumped over our front garden wall wearing a black bin bag cape and said he was Darth Vader, before hitting us with a crutch.”
This just in dude - Darth Vader hates the Jedi! Like to the point of beating them with a crutch ’cause he’s so bad-ass he don’t need no lightsaber to lay a beatdown on your sissy Jedi asses. Yeesh, get with the program my man.
This Saturday we’ll be attending Jeff Mach’s The Totally Normal Event, a benefit show for the SPARC Summer Experience which is a summer program for gifted youth combining elements of summer camp with the multilevel benefits of rigorous academic achievement. In other words a summer camp for really smart kids, much smarter than you and I most likely.
The New York Times has published a pretty swank 
Founding member Barney Jones, also know as Jonba Hehol, of the Holyhead Jedi Church said that he and his cousin were attacked by Darth Vader while tending their garden of Jedi lameness for some documentary.
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