I hereby and henceforward and thither and thus would like to introduce you all to the very-very-new-and-hip-and-now FangFriends.com - the project of miss Calamity J., a dear friend whose fanged-illustrations are a seamless ballet of bloody delightfulness. In return for some basic wordpress-setup/design, she has created the following NSTGD portrait:

i love it so, so much.  and I encourage everyone to draw their own gift-donkey portrait.

sweet baby jesus, LOOK:

Extinct, my ASS! from The Original Joe Fisher on Vimeo.

Oh how I wish I were one of those kids*. And/or the Museum of Natural History employee who came up with this. Also, can I get a collective paleontology-nerds ‘hells-yeah!’ for the feathers?  Thank you to dear-and-not-near-enough rickmonkey for sharing.

*with the exception of living under parental control again, puberty and basically the entire middle-school experience.

I saw this lovely stop-motion video over at poppytalk, called “western spaghetti”, and besides being the winner of my weekly Whimsy Award ™, it also reminded me that I have not yet in the history of NSTGD sung the praises of spaghetti western movies, specifically, my favorite, Trinity is STILL my Name!, which is the sequel to They Call Me Trinity.  So, well, it’s super funny, it’s Italian, his horse’s saddle is a lounge-chair.

Bonjour mes Dearlings,

in honor of TODAY, which is obviously BASTILLE DAY, which is the greatest of all the holidays, as I am sure you well know, I have made for you a petite 4-song mix which you can download by clicking upon this link, and unzipping it: bastille day mix.

within you shall find the following:

1. edith piaf - non je ne regrette rien (in my measly unlearned opinion, THIS is the quintessential edith piaf song - it is epic and tragic and painful and powerful…she regrets NOTHING.)

2. jacques dutronc - les cactus (60’s french pop dude. Since i have amassed quite the collection of french pop, it was a challenge to choose just a few - dutronc is comparable to ray davies perhaps.)

3. plastic bertrand - ca plane pour moi (I love this song not only because it completely rocks out in a beach boys meet REM’s “End of the World” sort of way, but also because of its prominent placement in the National Lampoon’s European Vacation soundtrack).

4. marie laforet - toi mon amour, mon ami (more 60’s french pop - this song however transcends the genre.)

If you are not hosting (or attending) your very own bastille day celebration (as I do every year), here are your instructions for the remainder of today:

As you listen to the four songs above, do one (or all!) of the following:

• Buy butter, flour, eggs, salt, sugar and milk, make crepes and eat them.
• Get a tattoo of Gerard Depardieu… on your face.
• Replace your current clothing with a striped shirt, beret and a short neck scarf tied at the side. If possible, grow a thin mustache.
• Embroider the names of your enemies onto a blanket.
• Speak like zee french, be sure to pepper your phrasing with plenty of pauses and say “ehhh, how do you say..?”
• Form a bourgeoisie insurgency against the tyranny of the aristocracy.

AND anyway

HAPPY BASTILLE DAY TO ALL!

*Full credit to Bethany S. the artist.

Bonjour mes Dearlings,

in honor of TODAY, which is obviously BASTILLE DAY, which is the greatest of all the holidays, as I am sure you well know, I have made for you a petite 4-song mix which you can download by clicking upon this link, and unzipping it: bastille day mix.

within you shall find the following:

1. edith piaf - non je ne regrette rien (in my measly unlearned opinion, THIS is the quintessential edith piaf song - it is epic and tragic and painful and powerful…she regrets NOTHING.)

2. jacques dutronc - les cactus (60’s french pop dude. Since i have amassed quite the collection of french pop, it was a challenge to choose just a few - dutronc is comparable to ray davies perhaps.)

3. plastic bertrand - ca plane pour moi (I love this song not only because it completely rocks out in a beach boys meet REM’s “End of the World” sort of way, but also because of its prominent placement in the National Lampoon’s European Vacation soundtrack).

4. marie laforet - toi mon amour, mon ami (more 60’s french pop - this song however transcends the genre.)

If you are not hosting (or attending) your very own bastille day celebration (as I do every year), here are your instructions for the remainder of today:

As you listen to the four songs above, do one (or all!) of the following:

• Buy butter, flour, eggs, salt, sugar and milk, make crepes and eat them.
• Get a tattoo of Gerard Depardieu… on your face.
• Replace your current clothing with a striped shirt, beret and a short neck scarf tied at the side. If possible, grow a thin mustache.
• Embroider the names of your enemies onto a blanket.
• Speak like zee french, be sure to pepper your phrasing with plenty of pauses and say “ehhh, how do you say..?”
• Form a bourgeoisie insurgency against the tyranny of the aristocracy.

AND anyway

HAPPY BASTILLE DAY TO ALL!

*Full credit to Bethany S. the artist.

yes, the rumors are indeed true: I am the sheriff of Lametown, USA and I have been missing for some time now. But! canada was ridiculously rad, and I have returned to you refreshed and re-bloggifull.

and so, I would like to share with you the following dirty-car-art by scott wade- because one man’s vehicular-safety-hazzard is another man’s treasure.

*found via my “dogs playing poker” google news alert.