Xaviera’s Game. By the author of “The Happy Hooker”. 1974....
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Valentine’s Dance 1973 (Valentine’s Day Contest Submission)
I keep seeing an advertisement on Facebook depicting two couples dressed up at a dance telling me to “flash back to 1973,” and i...
Mino “Amor Mio” (fantastic lost video footage of the world’s best singer)
Ladies and Gentlemen…….I give you MINA! To think that Liza Minnelli once said that this was the world’s next best singer. ...
Valentines Day via The NY Daily News (Valentine’s Day Contest Submission)
In 2009 my wife and celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversay – together for 31 years – High School Sweethearts. In the early days ...
Charm School picture (late 50’s)
This is actually my Mother. I love everything about this photo. The outfit, the hair (a modified flip of course) and the background faces ar...
Joy of Liberace, Retro Recipes From Americas Kitschiest Kitchen
“Joy of Liberace, Retro Recipes From Americas Kitschiest Kitchen” is a celebration of that most iconic of kitsch, Mr. Showmanshi...
Liberace, Your Personal Fashion Consultant
“Liberace Your Personal Fashion Consultant” is a book of cardboard die cut punch out images of Liberace in the most outrageous a...
Grown man or teeny bopper, you be the judge
Not kitsch in a tangible way, but experiential – this Saturday I got to meet one of my guitar idols, Mr. Duane Eddy, at the Deke Dicke...
True Story “The Groom Was A Virgin”
Vintage confession magazines. It was a step on the wild side. In 1970, what went on behind closed doors was finally being exposed. Actually ...
Baby Dennis McLain’s Hand (a drawing from 1967)
This is nutty but I thought it had some potential here. My Grandmother is now 97 and recently gave me a good portion of her book collection....
Earl Sheib commercial, 1978
Earl Sheib commercial 1978 with me, Joni Rothman-Robbins, as the voice of the car with the big red lips!...
OK, Allee, Here’s the Pic of Me and Dick!
This was taken about 600 million years ago….I can’t even believe that’s me in the photo! Meanwhile, did I tell you about t...
Mario Lanza? No, it’s Georgio Longdo and His Christmas Special!
This guy is “living kitsch” — if that’s at all possible. OMG, Allee… you gotta hear this … Believe it or...
Money From The Sky
When I was 13-years-old I flew in a helicopter for the very first time and threw hundreds of ping-pong balls stuffed with money out of the c...
Bejeweled Triscuit Box
I took this dull, ordinary grocery item and gave it a rags-to-riches makeover. Now it’s ready to move from the pantry into its own luc...
Crass Delicious Beverage
This particular example of these “delicious beverages” was manufactured by Washington Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Inc. of Capitol Hei...
Employee of the Month
The summer between high school and college, I was looking for a job – and through pure ignorance of the system, went to the local post...
Geraldine & Ricky Perform @ FBA
What we have here is a confluence of kitscheries. We have a tall, hip, rapping black guy named Tall interviewing Geraldine and Ricky, a Chri...
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
Lynda and Jools Topp, Kitsch Goddesses The Topp Twins documentary* just won the Toronto Film Festival, beating out Michael Moore’s Cap...
Chiquita Bananakitsch
Sorta sexy, kinda kitschy, it’s the Miss Chiquita Banana doll from 1944! Here she is in all her glory as a cut-and-sew, make-it-yourse...
Happy Birthday To Me Special Effects Ultimate Volcano Cake
Yes, my birthday’s today and that means it’s time for me to make another one of my signature spewing fire and lava volcano birth...
The Great Pumpkin
This is me livin’ large back in the late ’60s. My favorite “times-sure-have-changed-since-then” thing about this is ...
Irene Rubaum-Keller (4) and Dr. Kildare
When I was 4 I was in love with Dr. Kildare. My Dad, also a doctor, told me that if I could stop sucking my fingers (preferred them to my th...
Tiki Oasis Matching-Cabana-Set Photo inspires Statue
A photo taken of myself with a another matching-cabana-set clad fellow named Tony at the San Diego Tiki Oasis 8 in 2008. This photo then ins...
Don’t Get Even…Get Odd The Outrageous Comedy of Swami Beyondananda
is is a VHS tape (that I admit, I have not watched) of “60 minutes of wacky word play and crazy wisdom.” 1991...













