Last weekend I drove down to San Diego to see a performance of my musical, The Color Purple. I rarely get a chance to see the show but when ...
Cheesily psychedelic songs about Christmas having nothing to do with Pac-Man and some slop interspersed between the grooves about Ghost Mons...
Nothing especially kitschy here but soulful and slammin’ and I’ve always been a massive Run DMC fan so was most excited to be in...
Anyone who’s ever driven past Norwood Young’s house in LA knows that it’s a prime candidate for a Kitschmas smorgasbord un...
Unless you can’t stand to look at meat or poultry this is a cookbook that’s filled with thrilling visuals, not the least of whic...
Each ornament and tree topper is a unique work of art crafted by Pigmy Will, Feathers and Whiska, when he’s in a good mood. Adorable! ...
Any bottle of Concorde grape looks more Hanukah with this cheesy little so-much-silver-glitter-you-could-scrape-your-finger-on-it Jewish sta...
I just had a chance to post two great submissions today and realize I have to race out the door RIGHT NOW. No time to even post my own stuff...
I don’t know where this fantastic metal pipe menorah came from but it was sitting in the middle of my friend Judy Freed’s Hanuka...
All pretty self-explanatory here – Shalom, hope you’re enjoying this stretch of Hanukah, sit back and have a nice smoke with you...
From the San Diego Union tribune, 12/1/10: Convincing Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple,̶...
I used to hate these theme hats as they always look so dorky. But now that I have a blog and a museum that spotlight kitsch this sort of hab...
I was so excited to use my new Japanese-by way-of-China Banana Slicer I ran to rip the package open as soon as I got it home. But not before...
This is from a Disney special called Totally Minnie made sometime in the 1980s. I’d seen Donald and Daisy Duck dance to “Neutron...
You More than anything, the one thing that accompanied me every single day of my four college years at the University of Wisconsin in the la...
Unfortunately, my bottle of Cher perfume, given to me as a birthday present one year by Elvira, is long empty. Just like Burlesque, the film...
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! May you have much turkey, tofurkey or whatever else you choose to stuff yourself with today!...
One of the main reasons I love Thanksgiving is that I get to pull out all my holiday themed dinnerware. Not that I cook or that my house is ...
I loved me some Ben Casey when I was a kid. I had Ben Casey diaries, wallets, cufflinks, bobble head dolls, anything and everything that had...
As Thanksgiving week is upon us I will never forget the trauma of being invited to Luther Vandross’s Thanksgiving Day dinner and havin...
This is a very sloppy version of the kind of ‘sexy’ joke signs that became popular around the early 1960s and hung in many a woo...
I’m not sure how toilet ashtrays became so ubiquitous in the novelty ashtray department but they did. I guess because they’re a ...
Read about the evening and see more photos: https://www.awmok.com/2010/11/15/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%E2%80%93-1960s-music-ring-famous...
I’m so NOT the type to wear a ring with a G-clef on it or have one of those cheesy license plates like GR8T BEAT. My gold records don&...
. I wasn’t going to do anything for my birthday this year. Too overworked and no extra coinage to throw around. But word leaked out an...
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