Hookers or Cake

Where the self-obsessed get serious about silly
I'm too wacky to be hip.

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    • ------------------------------------- How this blog got its name

      ------------------------------------ There was a large painting of Evel Knievel shaking hands with Richard Nixon. It hung in the Mayors office. Late one evening after everyone went home. I took it down to the lab. I zoomed in on Evel’s left eye a 100x and enhanced it. It was an address. I went to the address. It was a modest, 1970’s style, split level ranch home in the suburbs.

      ----------------------------------- Inside I found a dead parrot lying on a waterbed. I revived the parrot with some saltines and adrenaline. We became good friends. The parrots name was Randy. One night a few years later while Randy and me played Gin Rummy, he sang me a song about a fire. The title of this blog was never mentioned but I sensed it, and Randy confirmed it by giving me ‘THE LOOK’.

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          • January 24, 2012 11:56 pm

            Dallas!

            JR discovers the secret.

            This is my 2 minute manifesto.

            My endless song of love!

          • December 21, 2011 10:55 pm

            Fuck Yeah - Bukka White - Jelly Roll Blues - (Thanks Courtney)

          • December 14, 2011 4:53 pm

            One of my favorite commercials ever.

          • November 2, 2011 11:27 pm

            Blue Velvet + Puff the Magic Dragon = ohhh great, now I’m freaked out!

          • June 8, 2011 8:10 pm

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            So there was a guy (had to be a guy, right?) who was like the Jandek of videos.  A real YouTube sensation, in his own way.  Had a YouTube channel called The Chriddof Archives, if I remember correctly.

            I guess he has a habit of disappearing, and taking his work with him.

            But some people had the foresight to save these things, which are Breathtaking Works of Art.

            Not to mention:  there are probably any number of folks ripping off the feel of these videos.

            Hard for me to pinpoint what makes them so great.  But they are great, and I will post them here when I see them.

            Back in the days before internet and social technology, one would see something like this at a rave or a weird art crawl and then you would be left to explain it to your friends through the majesty of song and interpretive dance.

          • May 21, 2011 11:50 pm

            I made this for all of us.

            It is quite graphic and intense…

            But I think we need to see it and hopefully cherish its inevitable truth.

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          • April 18, 2011 11:21 pm

            Orson Welles terrifies Jim Henson and Frank Oz - Caution this is Graphic!

            Poor Miss Piggy and Kermit…

          • April 2, 2011 1:22 am

            Allow me to thrust upon you, my dear tumblr friend

            this sentimental heart!

            For I will happily admit that I am quite fond of you all.

            For you give me reason to write and play

            So I would like to thank you with this, the most shitty of poems

            May you all find peace in your heart

            or at least  a 20 dollar bill.

            - Hookers or Cake

          • March 13, 2011 10:50 am

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            Een overzicht van ” book” oproepen door Jade Bos.

            The wild and wonderful gives me the best book review ever.

          • February 13, 2011 1:24 am

            Iggy & the Stooges 1970 - vid starts with some 50 yr-old suit talking about this crazy, new music and he peppers in some commentary throughout the performance - the highlight is Iggy crowd surfing as only he can and the commentator saying “That’s Peanut Butter,” as Iggy takes a jar of peanut butter from the audience and smears it all over his chest.

            Hop in to about 4:10 if yer impatient but be sure to catch the first few moments of commentary.