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“The D”/ Allee Willis Loves Detroit update: Steadily motoring….
I know, I know… It’s been pathetically long since my last update. That might be because of the 20-hour-days-minimum-six-days-a-w...
Spectacular live show, retired Motown stars, NPR, and Tavis Smily in an afro
All around it was a very good SEPTEMBER week here at Willis Wonderland LA as well as Willis W in Detroit. Yes I know there is a Willis Stree...
BaDeYa, Detroit! – Allee LIVE in The D, FINALLY……
For the past few few years now on the “BaDeYa, say do you remember 21st night of September”, my blessed and magic day because it’s...
R.I.P. aKitschionado MAGGIE LEWIS a.k.a. Windupkitty
I’m absolutely heartbroken to deliver the news to all aKitschionados that our beloved Windupkitty has departed the mortal plane for m...
Zsa Zsa Voom!
When Sid Krofft – let’s stop and take a breath right here – Sid Krofft! of H.R. Pufinstuf and Land of the Lost and wayyyy mor...
Ken Russell Garden Gnome
This is a custom-made, one-of-a-kind, 2 foot gnome, created in the likeness of the British film director Ken Russell (who is my father). It ...
Bavarian Fashion Icon Rudolph Moshammer
Rudolph Moshammer was a very popular Fashion Icon here in Munich Bavaria, known for his very kitschy Life together with his “Mama̶...
Cupcake Palette
That’s already a pretty picture…… I’m thinking that the paintbrush here is a fork....
I’m LIVE! I’m singing! I’m even handing out free foot massages!
A 6 minute capsule version of my two sold-out live shows at king King In Hollywood, May 8 & 9, 2012. BE AT MY NEXT EXTRAVAGANZA, ̶...
RIP, THOMA$ KINKADE
As an AWMoK akitschianado, I felt it was my civic duty to report the death today of Thoma$ Kinkade, arguably one of the most successful arti...
Yes, I’m back!! LIVE, for 2 nights only!!
Yes, though one might find it hard to believe after my last foray into reclaiming the stage, I’m hitting it again in my new, improved...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch ‘O The Day – Pufnstuffin’ With Sid Krofft
New Year’s Eve, 2011. I’m coming down Sunset Plaza, a really windy road with million dollar homes right above Sunset Blvd. in LA...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Dinner And Neutron Dancing With CHARO!
I’m sure any kitsch lover has a similar dream – having dinner with the kitschy-kitschy-cuchi Charo and bonding like you have been best f...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Honoring Lily Tomlin
On Friday I had the honor of sitting on the dais and speaking at the Pacific Pioneers Broadcasters luncheon honoring my friend, mentor and s...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Out with Lily Tomlin and RuPaul!
Me and Lily are planning our trip to Detroit in April to see the first high school production of my musical, The Color Purple, at her high...
DETROIT…MOTOROLA “House of the Future” ads painted by Charles Scridde
BEEEEautiful! Go Charles! I never knew these hailed from The D. Such incredible visuals. Did he do these other Motorola illustrations? ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 91 On An Oxygen Tank and Racing Past 1,000,000!
. “Hey Jerrie”, the video I made with 91 year old female drummer on an oxygen tank, Jerrie Thill, is the little engine that coul...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Bye Bye, Milly… Off to deliver a eulogy…
No new aKitschionado posts until tomorrow as I have to leave early this morning to go to Milly Del Rubio’s funeral where, as I did for...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – R.I.P. Milly Del Rubio
So that’s it. The third and youngest miniskirted, go-go booted Del Rubio has left the planet to rejoin the act. Normally I’m rea...
Allee Willis Kitsch O’ The Day – R.I.P. Alex Steinweiss
Alex Steinweiss passed away last Sunday. Even if you don’t know his name there’s no way you don’t know his work. Steinwei...
SAD PASSING OF ONE OF MY FAVE KITSCH CREATORS
So sad that (Uncle) Milton Levine who created the ant farm passed away today at the age of 97. I bought mine out of the back of an Archies C...
R.I.P., aKitschionado Monica Johnson
Sadly, aKitschionado, Monica Johnson, whose artwork abounds here at AWMOK, passed away on Monday. Although she never revealed it here, in ad...
R.I.P. Morrie Yohai, 90, Inventor of the Cheez Doodle
Breaking kitsch news: Morrie Yohai, inventor of the Cheez Doodle, has passed away at 90. He changed many lives and turned many people’...