Soupy Sales “Do The Mouse” Hat
One of the first rituals I ever remember doing with total religious fervor was eating my lunch every day with Soupy Sales. “Lunch with Soupy Sales”, his landmark kids show that launched in my hometown,...
View Article“What, me worry?”
“What, me worry?” Alfred E Newman, Mad magazine and books looked at the world a thousand different ways and still could not say it all. The illustrations, the comments, the humor and observations are...
View ArticleKNOCKERS UP…
This was a huge adult party album by the legendary Rusty Warren… I love the flirting couple on the cover…and the guy holding the table knockers.. I guess “knockers up” meant raise your knockers/noise...
View ArticleBy Kitschmeister’s request: The Alan King Thing
Not long ago, I submitted a snap of a vintage remote that happened to appear alongside a small autographed picture of Alan King… this little silver-framed beaut: When Allee suggested I submit it here...
View ArticleMorey Amsterdam’s Cookbook for Drinkers or…..
Anybody who was a fan of The Dick Van Dyke Show, will remember Morey Amsterdam. I believe Morey’s neice had Morey autograph a copy of his fun book to me. Each recipe, made with “booze,” is accompanied...
View ArticleMORE GAUZE…
MORE GAUZE… Hope this helps to cheer your day… Love the LP cover This is the “Examine Doctors” LP from Mike Nichols and Elaine May.. Just looking thru the titles made me think of you… and reminded me...
View ArticleAllee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Vintage Harlem Nightclub Shaker and My...
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not an avid club-goer. It used to be that I wanted to hear every detail of a record under headphones and didn’t want anyone standing up in front of me or humming...
View ArticleAllee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Dinah-Mite and the Dyn-O-Miteness of...
I love things that are ‘off’ but born of popular trends and then spin off into their own orbit, making a firm landing on the terra firma of Pop Culture themselves. In the early 1970′s, Mego Toys, the...
View ArticleWhen You’re In Love The Whole World Is Jewish LP
…featuring the “YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE JEWISH” Players- Frank Gallop, Lou Jacobi, Betty Walker, Phil Leeds, Valerie Harper, Anthony Holland and Bob McFadden. This album was recorded LIVE in Mono and...
View ArticleMinnie Pearl fan
How-w-w-DEE-E-E-E! This is a Minnie Pearl cardboard fan with a stick handle. For those of you you don’t know who she was, Minnie Pearl (real name: Sarah Ophelia Colly Cannon) was a comedienne who...
View ArticleHumor Healing Humanity show by Conscious Comic, Abby Lodmer!
Humor Healing Humanity is about documenting the LOVE and LIGHT and LAUGHTER and GOoD that is going on around the world, through HUMOR! Conscious Comedian, Abby Lodmer, brings attention to world issues...
View ArticleAutographed Doodles Weaver LP
Doodles Weaver was one of my favorite funny men in movies and TV. I had a chance to see him in person in San Francisco when he was with Spike Jones and the City Slickers. He was in the band but on a...
View ArticleLily Tomlin On Stage LP
I love the artwork on this lp and although I was 11 when this came out (sorry folks!) I learned to appreciate it as I got older. I’m wondering if this is on cd as I never had the chance to meet Lily...
View ArticleHiring the right contractor 3
During a renovation like this, you always have days that include a lot of waiting…Today was one such day…Apply one layer of stucco, let it dry for an hour, and then apply another…. You just have to...
View ArticleCoffee table or Turntable?
Is it a magazine? Is it a record? It’s both! This short-lived magazine, ECHO, from 1960 came out four times a year and each issue included four records that you can put on your turntable without...
View ArticlePlaygirl Presents “The Fabulous MINKA”– A Party Record
This is one record I would love to hear. I wonder if this is Minka on the cover?
View ArticleDenny’s Adventures in Allee’s “Soup To Nuts Party Mix”– part 16
I finally met the fabulous Luenell. She stopped over “Willis Wonderland” when we were all doing a run through of the show. This woman really has the ability to accessorize. Take a peak at her hands...
View ArticleTotie Fields “Live” LP
Now this definitely reminds me of one of my Italian Aunts from Philly.
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