Cult Figures and Artifacts
Breaking Bad Toys
Toy'sR Us is going to carry Breaking Bad action figures and accessories which include bags of pretend crystal meth. I think the pretend crystal meth should be pop rocks!
Posted By: patty - Mon Oct 20, 2014 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Drugs, Products, Retailing, Can’t Possibly Be True
Lampy, the Multimillion-Dollar Garden Gnome
Read about Lampy here.
More Gnome history here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 21, 2013 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Horticulture and Gardens, Foreign Customs, Europe, Nineteenth Century, Fictional Monsters
Group Baptism by Firehose
Conducted under the auspices of the famous and fabulous United House of Prayer for All People, whose founder was "Sweet Daddy Grace," as depicted below.
I heartily endorse any institution whose leaders inherit the title of "Sweet Daddy."
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 30, 2013 -
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Category: Crowds, Groups, Mobs and Other Mass Movements, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Eccentrics, Religion, 1910s
Zippy & Me
Yesterday, Saturday April 6, I was privileged to interview Bill Griffith, longtime weirdo and creator of Zippy the Pinhead (along with so many other great comics) at the MOCCA Fest in NYC. Here's Bill at the Fantagraphics table at MOCCA, showing off the newest Zippy collection, now available thru the link at the sidebar here.
And here we are onstage. (Photo by Phil Merkel.)
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 07, 2013 -
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Category: Conventions, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Comics, Surrealism, Books
Twinkling Stars
A strange tale behind this song:
Nine Circles never entered a recording studio and performed only once, at a Dutch radio station in 1982. Unbeknownst to them the engineer recorded the session and over the years it was bootlegged over and over becoming a Flexipop cult track. [The singer] never found out about this until I rang her up [in 2011].
Read the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 28, 2013 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Music, 1980s
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