Screw Your Nifty Packaging

I'll take a Whataburger over your cardboard burgers any day.


Via This Isn't Happiness

Here's A Nice Crappy Movie For Ya

Look for it under the title "The Atomic Brain" (and there is a MST3K version). Goofy, melodramatic, and sexy in a Fifties way. A real six-pack movie. Ya can't lose.


Via Monster Man

A Little Earnest Seriousness Here

Starbucks Coffee is a very successful company purveying a dizzying variety of coffees and coffee specialties. Because it is so pervasive and has become such a commercial icon here in the States, it has also been the butt of many jokes, some good-natured, some not so much.


But I have been to a number of their stores here in Houston, Texas, and, not only am I thrilled with the product they sell, but I note that the shops serve as a venue and a means for people to get together socially. At one shop, a group of older men, of mixed race and backgrounds, meet regularly (daily, it seems) to chat over coffee.


Other shops I have been to are crowded with students studying together or simply taking a break from their work. Whatever the case, the shops are crowded with people in animated conversation, enjoying the social benefits of the caffeine drug.


And, I think that is a wonderful thing. Seriously.


Image Courtesy of Financial Report

Just Because

Ms. Emma Love over at Aliens and Ice Cream has taught me that a blog can really benefit from posting photos of bright, colorful, and otherwise delightful objects. Of which, this is clearly one. And, as a matter of fact, one from her blog. 

Check out her blog, because it is full of delicious goodness.

A Little Music For You

This is the drollest song I have ever encountered. It is just the sort of thing I like to play in my sets on Blip.FM. Check it out ~ it's different.

A Tip Of The Hat

RETROGASM - a wonderful picture site with an emphasis on vintage erotica. I plunder it regularly for images to post here with my special captioning. A great place to waste some time.

Mon Petit Chéri

Ladies and Gentlemen, the brilliant and impossibly cute Sylvie Vartan. Featured in my sets on Blip.FM.

Thanks very much to Sloth Unleashed

The Music You've Been Missing All These Years

If you are enjoying Squashpants' sense of humor as reflected in "Hot Buttered Groat Clusters", then you might like his musical offerings as well. Blip.FM is a streaming music venue that also accommodates social interaction. You have a vast musical database from which to select and play just about any song you can think of, and then launch it on a Twitter-like packet with your witty comments and shout-outs to other DJs. 

My sets are eclectic mixes of seldom-heard oldies, psychedelia, strong R&B, New Wave and New Age, novelty, and interesting arcania. My promise to listeners is that, if they choose to play anything I launch, they will immediately like the tune. "Catchiness" is the catchword. 

   

I will be doing a set tonight, starting about 6:30 CDT. Make me one of your favorite DJ's (yes, my djname is "Squashpants")

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A Blog Worthy Of Your Attention

This lovely fellow greets you when you arrive at Twisted.

Michael runs a very sharp blog named Twisted Vintage and it is definitely a good time. If you like images from years ago that lend themselves to being completely perverted by someone with a creative, contemporary sense of humor, then this is the place for you. Don't deprive yourself of giggles to be had. Check out TV! (It's not his only blog, either)