Nick Tosches will spill the beans about his latest book SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR SATAN on the FOOL'S PARADISE show on WFMU this Saturday from 1-3 PM Eastern Standard Time! Mighty disc jockey/radio personality REX will grill elusive Newarkian Mr. Tosches for two solid hours about the caustic claims and harrowing histories unleashed in this latest "hip pocket paperback" from the fast-expanding Kicks Books empire! Join Rex and Nick in the legendary leatherclad library of the FOOL'S PARADISE fur-lined fallout shelter, where tales -- and records-- will be spun... and how! Be sure to join Nick afterhours in New York City on September 9 at a rare personal appearance courtesy NYPL's old courthouse-gone-bibliotheque JEFFERSON MARKET LIBRARY. It's free and fabulous-- 8 PM- details here! Pick up SATAN at this sensational meet & greet with the author! Outta towners make acquisitions at Norton or Kicks Books!

HELL YEAH MAN.....COOL MONSTERS AND HOT CHIX :):):)

Michael Draine said:

 From THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, with a thought from "The Pied Piper of Steel,” ACTION COMICS #398, May 1971.

 From THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, with a thought from "The Pied Piper of Steel,” ACTION COMICS #398, May 1971.

 Creepy Botched Snakedude from Sssssss!

Sideshow Toys' THIS ISLAND EARTH 12” Metaluna Mutant

Anyone have descriptions (and/or better yet, photos!) of cheesy no-name monster (or otherwise) toys they covet?

I pulled out a whole shitload of 1" buttons that I had stashed in a desk drawer, but I'm still not sure I want 'em on it. Kinda like it better without 'em, I think.

The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

Kopper said :

 "By the way, it's pretty amazing the looks and stares I get when I wear it."

 

Great !  SQUARES BEWARE !!!

 

And what about your favorite buttons you were planning to put on it ?

Kopper said :

 "By the way, it's pretty amazing the looks and stares I get when I wear it."

 

Great !  SQUARES BEWARE !!!

 

And what about your favorite buttons you were planning to put on it ?

I have a pretty big head. It was too small when I got it. I had to order one of those Hat Jack Hat Stretchers, which worked really well at stretching it out a size or two.

By the way, it's pretty amazing the looks and stares I get when I wear it.

Suzi Creamcheese said:

Nice!

I'm a total hat fiend, I may have to look into getting one myself :)

Nice!

I'm a total hat fiend, I may have to look into getting one myself :)

It was hard to get a good pic of this hat... it's black, so the light has to be just right or you can't really see the jagged edge around it. Anyway, here's one:

The screamin' Soul Preacher said:

Please, post a picture of yourself wearing it !!! ;)

For blogs search on Church of choppers, Lords of Loud, The Haints, Street Chopper, Horse Backstreet Choppers, Garage Company Customs, Kutty Noteboom.  For cafe bikes, I have no clue. This is my current steed

Check out Chopcult.com. Lots of garage-built death traps or all marques.

Some day I will build a clone of this car. So bad ass.

ELpollacko said:

My favorite Roth car, although I do enjoy them all is his personal 55 Chevy.

 

He pulled the engine out of this to make the Orbitron and stuffed a Chrysler HEMI in it!

My favorite Roth car, although I do enjoy them all is his personal 55 Chevy.

 

He pulled the engine out of this to make the Orbitron and stuffed a Chrysler HEMI in it!

Mike said:

I was under the impression that it was still owned by Aaron Grote. So I assume it didn't sell on ebay?? Great looking custom and even has air conditioning hidden somewhere in there. Made to be driven.

Yeah, he did sell it at the Barrett Jackson this year. And it is meant to be driven. Here it is before he got it running, that's me and my truck pulling it back to the trailer. And a video of Aaron patrolling the corn fields. There are pictures floating around the web with playboy bunnies crawling all over it too.

The Beatnik Bandit has been my fav since I was a kid. Mysterion and Orbitron are right up there too.

Hi,

I'm looking for artists to contribute graphics/flyers for several of the Las Vegas Shakedown events.  You can view them at www.lasvegasshakedown.com or www.facebook.com/lasvegasshakedownrockandrollweekend

 

It's not a paying gig, but we could swap for passes.

 

Please contact me at tigermaskevents@gmail.com if interested.

 

Thanks

 

Ralph

Does anyone know where I can get some emblems for my 1956 Dodge Custom Royal Car?  Thanks y'all!

I was reading an article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-sharp/pulp-novel-covers_b_937147.html) yesterday written by the guy that runs this blog on pulp novels (http://salmongutter.blogspot.com/).  It's got great book covers from trashy pulp novels!

Poe and Baudelaire : Wonderful !

"The Flowers of Evil" have cast their spell on me when I still was an innocent kid... and yes...my innocence quickly faded away then...

As a french kid eager for more "burning" litterature, Baudelaire soon led me to E.A. Poe ( Baudelaire was the french translator of Poe ) and : wow !!! A new door was opened. It has never been closed since...

No deep thoughts, really. But thank you so much for the recommendation. Poe and Baudelaire are two of my favorite classic "weird storytellers", and both have interesting biographies, too.

Thanks again for your contribution to the group. It is nice to see some activity here.

Poe and Baudelaire, both 19th century overlapping contemporaries, contributed heavily to today's sense of the eerie and macabre. Poe influenced pulp-era Weird Tales writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. All of the aforementioned were accomplished poets as well as prose writers. Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil was banned when it was first published in 1857 and set the tone for later obscenity trials such as the one for Ginsberg's Howl. I would recommend the Oxford World's Classics edition of The Flowers of Evil with the translation by James McGowan. Any thoughts on this?

Hello out there! Great to see so much cool work at once! Here are some silkscreen posters I did in the last two years... Find lots more of that grafuck stuff on www.entwederodermatt.ch

By the way; If anybody in the NYC area needs a flyer or poster... I'd probably be interested in doing that!