I spent most of Wednesday afternoon being photographed and interviewed for “Born in Detroit,” a book by Jenny Risher “celebrating...
LAX last Friday morning, with people leaving for 4th of July, was like D-Day at the stockyards. My whole morning had been like that. Snappy ...
One of the best things about the 4th of July is the food one consumes as a means of celebration, and normally my Independence Day spread loo...
As you read this, I’m boiling away in Kenosha, Wisconsin where I’m attending two friends’ wedding. Getting up at 4:30 AM t...
I do like when a state maximizes the amount of merchandise that can be culled from any of that state’s icons, in this case the badger,...
“Perspiration motion is carried out intensively and working out of the upper half of the body!!” Well, you can say that again! I...
I’m not a bowler. But I AM a bowling-kitsch-artifact collector crazy person. Bowling was THE happy-go-lucky, stylish, social sport of ...
I was going to feature my Richard Simmons towel as my kitsch offering of the day: But I decided to feature the real thing instead because of...
Bleary eyed from chasing a friend’s cat through the hills above the Hollywood Bowl all night last night – finally captured IR...
Candy can! CB radio and Quiksand bubble gum! 1977! cast iron horse bookend holding up the vintage “JET” magazines. “JET...
One of my favorite genres of kitsch is products from China with translations that have run hideously amuck. It’s not even that the pro...
Last Saturday night my friend, Chris Nichols, threw a party at The Wigwam on Route 66 in San Bernadino, CA. With no traffic it’s still...
I’m sure that Floyd Cardoz is a magnificent chef and I should’ve seen his win coming from that constant coming-in-second storyl...
Well, it only took close the four decades for me not to be stage fright and have absolutely one of the best nights of my life when I sang an...
AMAZING watering can which is made of plastic. Every household should have one of these. Apple head with face and REALLY long eyelashes!...
Racing out of Willis Wonderland for sound check so no new posts today other than the confessional I’ve written below. Back tomorrow wi...
This is the kind of gem I pray pops up every time I enter a 99¢ store. It’s perfect kitsch – cheap, ratty sounding, filled with...
Last weekend, me and Snappy P, a.k.a. Prudence Fenton, jumped into the mustache van and headed up north on a cat reconisance mission after A...
I love these kind of toy kits that are slapped together to take advantage of some current trend because the contents are usually cheaply mad...
Despite the fact that I co-wrote the Friends theme song, “I’ll Be There for You”, I’ve never collected the plethora of m...
Kitschy in that I haven’t gotten on stage and sung my songs since this photo was taken in 1974… Oy! From the press release: Rich...
Nice, big, fat story in the Times on me today + 12 photos. Thank you, Bob Morris, for seeking me out (no press agent involved here!) and wri...
So revolutionary and popular were miniskirts in the 1960’s that a plethora of accessories were made for them. This “Original Mini- S...
Because I spend about 80% of my day squinting at screens of various sizes and working by the glare of them at night, eyeglasses have been a ...
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