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Sep 5, 2010
Surf W/Harajuku Girls Of Japan!

TRIBUNE POSTS CHICAGO MUG SHOTS, JAPAN'S HOT FASHION CRAZE, THE GOLDEN GIRLS CHARMS, BOTTLE CAP ART AND FASHION, THE DAY AFTER YOU DIE PHOTO COLLECTION, NEW ZEALAND'S MEDICAL STAMPS!
 
A woman kept in a box for hours died. the court has ruled the captors did nothing wrong. What in the heck is happening in Arizona
 
The Chicago Tribune online has begun running mugshot photos of people busted!
From Surfer Richard Crowe
 

Harajuku girls rock!!!! New fashion craze from Japan
 
The Golden Girls charm collection- includes Stan!
 
Between 1959 and 1962, 43 million Chinese died of hunger or were executed. Parents sold their children,
people dug up the dead and ate them
 
Howard Stern to leave satellite radio?
 
New Zealand's Medical Innovations in stamp form!
 
French prisoner kills cellmate and eats his lung. From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
Located in the mountains of Vorarlberg, Austria, Horizon Field consists of 100 lifesize, cast-iron figures
 
Very cool vampire toys! From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
 
 
Bottle cap art and fashion
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
THE DAY AFTER YOU DIE
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Great collection of pictures!

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Sep 2, 2010
Surf W/ Ink Out, Grills In

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES HIT STORES, HEAVY DRINKERS LIVE LONGER, JANIS JOPLIN'S PSYCHEDELIC PORSCHE, JAMES DEAN'S FIRST TV APPEARENCE, THE ROBERT CRUMB MUSEUM, THE REAL WORLD OF SPYS!
 

Grillz *One size fits all* NYC - SET
 
Your teeth need a grill, get them here.....
 
A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes
unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more
than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets. These are all abandoned projects by the
U.S. government in Iraq at a cost of billions.
 
It's costume time, in preparation for Halloween. Blago and Lady GaGa could be the biggies this year.
 
Real life James Bond spy items from the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
 
 
Stan Freeberg did some creative and very innovative commercials. Here are some of them!
 
Here Stan tried to use advertising to end the war in Vietnam!
 
Is it time for students to skip college and learn a trade? Camille Paglia says yes.
 
Contrary to popular belief: Heavy drinkers outlive tee totalers and light drinkers!
 
Direct from Sichuan, China, the breathtaking performance by Beauty and Melody Performing Troupe, an all-women traditional instrument ensemble will take
you on a musical journey from China’s ancient melodies to the contemporary
rhythms of today. From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
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Janis Joplin's Porsche!
 
The Robert Crumb Museum
 
James Dean TV commercial - his first TV work in 1950!
 
The first major carosel figures up for sale in 15 years from Surfer Richard Crowe
 
The price of gold isn't fixed, its rigged! From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
 
No one knew The Weathermen were controlled by the KGB in the 60's and 70's, not even them!
 
Have you ever wondered what the real life world of espionage and spies is like? Have you ever wondered what was the truth
about spying in the Cold War, not the movie fantasies? The following stunning documentary THE KGB CONNECTIONS
follows one revelation after another with what the spy game is really about- and how badly we played the game against
the Soviets. This is not an easy ride for anyone. If you are a conservative the fact our government was so easily infiltrated
is still cause for worry. Joseph McCarthy only knew 10% of the story, the facts were far worse. If you are a leftist, that so
much of your history was manipulated by the Soviet Union it can't make one proud. If you are a liberal, you must ask why
so many children of the privledged were so prone to Utopian ideals that masked horrific realities. It is not an easy film for
anyone, yet I wish it was part of every history department in America.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5474736&l=64775c8112&id=695490985
 

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Aug 29, 2010
Surf W/ Yard Art!

ZIPPO ART FROM THE VIETNAM WAR, LIFE AMONG THE GYPSIES, FIRST ADULT FILM IN IMAX 3-D, ART BY ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS, THE SEARCH FOR A LAKE MONSTER!

The world of gypsies caught on camera  http://www.lensculture.com/otherworld.html

3 silent films by Josef Von Sternberg, the man who discovered Dietrich, have been released by Criterion
 
The art of Vietnam Era helmets
 
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WITH BARBIE (THE INCREDIBLE HULK )
 
One of a kind Barbie and other character models!
 
Hong Kong is making the first adult movie in IMax 3-D!
 
The postcard art of Mark Mothersbaugh ( DEVO)
 
Remember when the press claimed Noah's Arc had been found? Now they are shocked to hear the wood was planted there. From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
The mushroom cloud rises above Nagasaki
The mushroom cloud rises above Nagasaki
The mushroom cloud rises above Nagasaki
The mushroom cloud rises above Nagasaki
 
Art by atomic bomb survivors
 
A new documentary is coming out on David "The Rock" Nelson, the Ed Wood of the 21st Century. Here I am introducing him in the trailer.
 
Richard Crowe's nite time supernatural tours are a part of Chicago. Give him a call to reserve seats or set up a special tour or pub crawl. 708- 499- 0300
Mon thru Saturday 9am to 4pm
 
 
The art of Vietnam era Zippo lighters!
 
Art found in people's yards!
 
The search for a Lake monster! From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Elizabeth Huey, who studied at the New York Studio School and received her M.F.A. from Yale in 2002, paints dream-like narratives of
emblematic characters in psychological scenarios and ubiquitous landscape settings. Heroines, a dominatrix, bystanders, and angels
share a mythological forest as electronic devices constantly monitor. The innocence of nature and the nature of innocence are interrupted
by the architecture of social control and the presence of a home, a church or an institution stationed nearby.
 
 

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Aug 27, 2010
Surf W/ Bozo Tell All!

PETA VS SNAKES, TOUR NEW YORK CITY MOB LOCATIONS, THE LONGEST RUNNING PRIME TIME TV SHOW HITS 900TH EPISODE- CAN YOU GUESS WHAT IT IS?, THE FRIENDSHIP OF FRANK SINATRA AND SAMMY DAVIS JR., WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF LESBOS!
 
 
The second wife of BOZO THE CLOWN has written a tell all. Why Bozo, why????
 
 
The friendship of Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.
 
PETA is going after Hindu's for the yearly SNAKE FESTIVAL.
 
The NYC walking tour of mob locations
 
 
Cab Calloway
 
Portraits of my favorite jazz musicians in the 1940's
 
Visions of the apocalypse in movies and novels
 
RAW, the longest running episodic prime time TV show in history airs its
900th episode Monday night.
 
The trail of tears motorcycle ride from Surfer Richard Crowe
 
 
Welcome to the House Of Lesbos, paperback book covers of the
1950's through 1970's. Not OK for work.
 
Time displacement video. Very weird.
 
Pinky Diablo skull spoons!
 
Names of those who died in Vietnam listed by city and state. From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
Unwritten Chicago cabdrivers rules

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Aug 25, 2010
Surf W/ Dwarf Theme Park!

ART FROM CAR PARTS, TEN UNUSUAL URINALS, THE REAL CHARLIE CHAN, GUNS YOU CAN EAT, THE AMAZING STORIES OF THE HOUSES SEARS SOLD, CASTRO'S HIDDEN HEADQUARTERS DURING THE REVOLUTION!
 
The top 10 of most curious urinals!
 
 
The world's only dwarf theme park. Wait, what?
 
New film of Pee Wee Herman at Sturgis for the Biker rally!
 
The tribes of the Indian Nation, from Surfer Richard Crowe
Full Bloom
Custom made and very unusual bras!
 
According to scientists, rave party staples LSD and ketamine
(better known as Special K or just K)
can be cures for depression and other psychiatric disorders.
Wow, the '90s really are coming back full force.
 
NEW-GENERATION antidepressants, such as Prozac and Seroxat, are largely a waste of time, research suggests.
A review of clinical trials found that they worked no better than a dummy pill for mildly depressed patients and for most people suffering severe depression.
 
 
Guns you can eat!
 
There really was a real life Charlie Chan, here is his story. From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
 
Sometimes Asian companies making shirts with English on them, get the english really, really wrong.
 
New Jersey has become the first state to start up Obama's health care plan. After all the arguing,
money spent, passionate pleas....
guess how many have signed up for it in 6 days?
2. That's T-W-O.
 
From Surfer Pojo, the amazing car parts sculpture of James Corbett
 
Castro's hidden outposts, during the revolution. From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
The amazing story of the houses Sears sold up until 1940 that arrived in boxcars and people assembled themselves!
Today there is one town in Illinois that has over 150 of them, they are worth far more than what they were bought
for and still hold up!
 

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Aug 21, 2010
Surf W/Jayne Mansfield,Hendrix!

THE DARK SIDE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL, STUNNING JAPANESE MANHOLE COVERS, HOW TO SPEAK HIP, 10 TATTOOS THAT WILL GET YOU IN TROUBLE AT THE AIRPORT, REALLY BIZARRE BOOZE!
 
Funky vintage trailers!
66_05 
 
In the 1930's many women became killers in Chicago. Here's why.....
 
Live in NY? Visiting in and after October? Teller, of Penn and Teller, has a play opening!
 
Winston Churchill is remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour —
but what if he also led the country through her most shameful one? What if,
in addition to rousing a nation to save the world from the Nazis, he fought for
a raw white supremacy and a concentration camp network of his own?
This question burns through Richard Toye's superb, unsettling new history,
"Churchill's Empire" — and is even seeping into the Oval Office.
 

Incredibly beautiful Japanese manhole covers http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/incredibly-beautiful-japanese

Jessica Alba Tiger Beer ad  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi4jWhPJ-6M

From the book "Black Gold: the Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix" By steven Roby " Toward the end of 1965, record producer Ed Chaplin brought in his new session guitarist Jimmy Hendrix, to play backup on a single for Jayne Mansfield when her acting career started to fade." The session took place at the same studio where he...ndrix recorded many tracks with Curtis Knight "When I interviewed Chaplin about the Hendrix/ Mansfield single he was surprised that any one knew about Hendrix's involvement "How did you get that information? I didn't give them permission to use his name." "Chaplin added that Hendrix was in the studio when Mansfield sang: It's interesting to imagine the two exchanging glances" "On April 14, 1967 Mansfield attended a Jimi Hendrix Concert in Bolton England"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK4GrUd4xJw

HOW TO SPEAK HIP, classic hippie comedy album by Del Close and John Brent

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/08/how-to-speak-hi.html

I get quoted on two films here, in an article in WIRED on cheesiest science fiction films!

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/

The Ballad Of Jesse James, from Surfer Richard Crowe 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kQBIO-VdQQ

10 Tattoos that will get you in trouble at the airport!

http://www.oddee.com/item_97159.aspx

 

BEST SITE OF THE DAY:

Ten of the most bizarre alcoholic beverages out there.....

http://www.oddee.com/item_97168.aspx

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Aug 19, 2010
Surf W/New Kid's In The Hall

DAYTONA BEACH BIKE WEEK IN THE 1970'S, KID'S IN THE HALL MINI-SERIES, ROBOTS AND DONUTS, SMELL LIKE THE SEX PISTOLS, THE NIGHT OF TERROR, THE PSYCHOTRONIC FILM SOCIETY ON WILD CHICAGO!
 
The Psychotronic Film Society on WILD CHICAGO in the early 1990's. Monte Beauchamp would become editor of BLAB! Magazine, Bryan Wendorf began and still runs the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Darren Hacker an underground filmmaker. Also the Women's Auxiliary heads, CiCi Hunt, Supervixen Pam "Boom Boom" Smith and Linda Lofstrohm.
 
The events and people of the Psychotronic Film Society, The Icons!
 
Tom Horn. Wild West killer, lawman or both? From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
 
 
Daytona Beach Bike Week in the 1970's!
 
What drugs are our astronaughts on?
 
The Kid's In The Hall have a comedy mini-series coming
 
Tips for men on dating Chinese women. From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
 
Eric Joyner art, ROBOTS AND DONUTS
 
The most horrifying museums on earth
 
The creepiest wax figures of celebrities

 

 

The Sex Pistols Fragrance picture
The Sex Pistols fragance. Wait, what?
 
Turkish man accused of domestic violence explains that he and his wife were doing
an ethnic dance. From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
This week is the anniversary of women getting the vote. The following is about what led
up to that day, a story lost in history and forgotten.
 
Women had decided to protest Woodrow Wilson and The White House- the result would
become known as, THE NIGHT OF TERROR. These are the women, and what they had to
 

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Aug 15, 2010
Surf W/ The Elephant Lynching!

EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BACON, GOODBYE STEVE JORDAN: ACCORDIAN PLAYER, MINOTAURE THE SURREALIST MAGAZINE,  IS "ONCE UPON A TIME" THE BEST SONG OF 1960- 1965?, THE DAY THEY HANGED AN ELEPHANT!
 
Now you can own art created by a woman using her breasts! From Surfer Robert Ritholz
 
 
 
Rest in peace Steve Jordan, the man who made the accordion a hip instrument!
From Surfer Bruce Dinmor!
 
Here he is playing the accordion!
 
THE LIBERTARIAN STANDARD, a new publication on the net
 
Celebrating women's breasts, in 3-D! Not ok for work. From Surfer Robert Ritholz
 
 
Very strange baby hands salt and pepper shakers
 
 
Jackie Evancho's video submission for the America's Got Talent YouTube Audition,
singing music from the opera! From Surfer Drew in Evanston.
 
Take a tour of the places associated with Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary.
From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
Minotaure, published between 1933 and 1939, was a Surrealist-oriented publication founded by Albert Skira in Paris.
The editors were André Breton and Pierre Mabille. It was a luxurious publication, sporting original artworks on its cover
by prestigious artists like Pablo Picasso. The magazine was sponsored and advised by Surrealist art patron Edward James,
and is still one of the richest sources of information about the pre-war Surrealist world. In many ways, it was the successor
to La Révolution Surréaliste. It was published at the same time as Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution.

It has been said in your life you will be hurt by someone, and you will hurt someone. But
it has never been said as well as it is in this song, perhaps the best song of the early songs,
ONCE UPON A TIME. This version by Tony Bennett.
 
VAMPIRELLA is a character who appeared 40 years ago in a publication that stopped being printed decades ago. That hasn't stopped her fanbase from growing! From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
 
 
 
The day they hanged an elehant in East Tennessee! From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
BEST SITE OF THE DAY
 
Bacon has been called the candy meat - it's decadent, rich, and indulgent. Cured and crispy, bacon has been a favorite for centuries.
Whether you like it with eggs, tossed on a salad, dressing up a burger, or even dipped in chocolate, there's a bacon treat for everyone.
With "baconmania" in full swing, let's take a moment to appreciate all the facets of the best part of the pig.

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Aug 11, 2010
Surf W/Catfish Collins, R.I.P.

GOODBYE PHELPS CATFISH COLLINS

Phelps 'Catfish' Collins (L) and Tony Wilson (R)

On guitar, the forward thinking Phelps 'Catfish' Collins filled in, pushing the James Brown band in a new direction.

His choppy, spiky sound became the definitive technique for a funk guitarist. Working with James Brown for some time, 'Catfish' Collins played alongside his better known brother Bootsy in the band.

Never quite given the credit he deserved, the influence of 'Catfish' Collins can be felt everywhere. The guitarist's technique filtered through Gang Of Four, Orange Juice and more, and can be heard in groups such as Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party and more.

Later working with Parliament and Funkadelic, 'Catfish' Collins remained musically active for some time afterwards.

The general public may have not known his name, but they sure as hell knew his riffs. He put the P in P-Funk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_LRYezOfeo

Here James Brown gives Catfish some

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDGpeW4sUUs

Say goodbye to the man who trained the funk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tVFPM1HsBY 

SEX MACHINE and GET ON THE GOOD FOOT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jIktDUGQf8

Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6OoOhKM_yc

Last tour of the Catfish, a tribute to James Brown with the original band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tVFPM1HsBY

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Aug 9, 2010
Surf W/ Lady GaGa Punk Rocker!

CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN BEER, THE BLIND SUPERMODEL IN THE MAKING, KING KONG MADE BY KIDS, WHEN SHANGHAI WAS THE VICE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, CHURCH GOERS BATTLE STRIPPERS!
 
Lady GaGa shows her punk rock side at Lollapalooza! And a whole lot of skin. May not be ok for work, but she just earned a whole lot of cred with me.
 
Now this is odd. A 3 Stooges short, without the Stooges! PARDON MY TERROR! was written for the
Stooges but given to two comedians on the lot to do instead. The result is a 3 Stooges short, without the Stooges!
Part 1:
 
Part 2:
 
Hammer Films, makers of some classic and fine horror films, is making beer!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The story of a model on the way to superstardom, even though she is blind!
From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
This is a website about hippie life in Atlanta in the 60's and early 70's. You can find me in the 69 and 70 Pop fest sections, the riot (with photos) in the Major events section, me tripping with Duane Allman in the Allman Brothers section. There are probably more places but that's what I've found so far.

 
Me as a hippie.....
Let's see, hippie, protester, underground filmmaker, punk, Psychotronic Film Society head, SubGenius Pope, writer, director, producer, biker without a bike, raver, mashup DJ.....
is any subculture safe?
 
This is amazing. Kids in the 1970's do their version of KING KONG with very cool stop motion animation
 
Churchgoers, strippers protest one another in Coshocton County
 
Really rare footage of Marilyn Monroe as a model in 1946!
 
The press went wild reporting that Noah's Arc had been found. Turns out,
somebody just planted some old wood at the spot. From Surfer Richard Crowe
 
My favorite opera singers and their music!
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
 
The business world of Old Shanghai - from opium to prostitution!
From Surfer Richard Crowe

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