OK so the long Lisa Frank is awesome because it has like everything Lisa Frank is known for and incorporates almost all of the common 80’s sticker themes: hamburgers, unicorns, ice cream, teddy bears, pizza, candy, cherries, and rainbows.Mystiks are awesome because they make swooshy colors when you press on them BUT DON”T PRESS TO HARD!Hamburgers and Coke-a-cola and other 50’s Americana made subtle appearances in 1980’s stickers, I don’t know why.Ark Animals were very hard to find unless you went to a big city like Minneapolis. I didn’t get these ’til I was 30Toots are the most awesome because they just are. These dinosaurs are gorgeous and profoundly influenced my sense of design.  

It’s a 20 minute film involving high fashion and low production values. Or as is creators, my friends, call it: A new adventure saga set in a post nuclear multiverse. Three heroes from different time periods are picked up by a holographic spaceship and sent on a mission to rescue Falco Quasar, a colony pilot, when they are attacked by a mega-corporation and its mutant empire. Friday May 2 at 6175 Beverly Blvd 90036

See me at Slideshow, a monthly production with performers telling their stories, both fiction and non-, with slides, of course.

I’ll be telling a disturbing tale from my teen years in Fargo, featuring sex, theft, voyeurism, and moonlit gardening.

Pay $10 at the door but make a reservation to guarantee a seat - Call: (323) 692-3086.

Show is Sat May 19 at 8pm. The Fake Gallery is at 4319 Melrose in LA, 90029, near Vermont by Scoops and the Faultline, but we’ll have the free beer and wine.

From: ricocoblog.seesaa.net. Related: Crazy Happy Lunch!

A while back I posted about the rainbow dyed roses seen at the LA County Fair and my subsequent hunt for and purchase of said roses. Well the Dutch growers who created them, Happy Colors, have a site displaying their experimentation with all manner of multi-color flower dying.

I have a piece about Playboy in the gay SoCal rag, Frontiers. (Sadly, the bits about Hef’s bisexual experimentation and my suggestion for a jack-off party were cut.)

And the graphic design mag, HOW, said some very nice things about my “really, really adult-themed book,” Obscene Interiors.

So I picked up my order of Rainbow Roses from Mellano and Co. in downtownLA. (They are a special order and you will have to call them - the roses are not on their website.) They weren’t cheap - about $6 a stem retail. Here’s photos from the unpacking. I was told the dye was injected into the stem but that doesn’t appear correct. The stems were split into four pieces which, I’m guessing, were each placed in seperate dyes. When trimmed you can see how the dye was absorbed.

See also: Beyond Rainbow Roses - Rainbow Everything

Seen at the LA County Fair, these are real white roses dyed with injections made directly into the stem. Mellano and Company is one of the few US wholesalers to order them. Gay-wedding planners have never been happier.

ORDERING INFO:

I don’t sell these. You must call Mellano and Company (they are not on the company’s website) or call your local florist and have them place an order through Mellano & Co.

More info/pictures: Rainbow Roses: They Arrive, I Geek Out

See also: Beyond Rainbow Roses - Rainbow Everything

Nevermind the blatant rip off of the Chris Cunningham/Bjork robot design, or the painful desperation of these ads, this time notice the special retardedness developed just for gay publications:

Other things gay men prefer over sex with women: ironing, sleeping, reading, watching Scrubs, weeding the garden, washing the car, etc., etc. Your vodka ain’t all that special, it’s one of the millions of things gay men, by definition, would prefer instead of pussy. Pouting won’t change that.

Sadly, his scene with Han Solo was cut from Episode IV.
Get yours here.
Related: Star Wars Designer Edition

A while back, Mark Chamberlain had a show of watercolors of Batman and Robin making out and just being gay. DC comics tried to sue and demanded all the art. I don’t remember how it ended and I don’t care enough to look into it but here’s one of the pictures. The interesting thing is photographer Terry Richardson also just happened to have taken a photo of two guys in the aforementioned costumes also making out, and I’m pretty sure it pre-dates the watercolors. Plagiarism, or do we all have the same fantasies?

Five years ago I appeared on “The Daily Show with John Stewart” in a segment inspired by my Obscene Interiors.

If the youtube link is down the video is also here.