Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher

T’is the season to be jelly! Send a Christmas eCard why don’t you.

An amazingly accurate personality test. Which is why I’m not telling you my results!

Stupid Band Names. A couple I’d add: Yes, CSN&Y, ELP, ELO. Oh, and not to forget The Pet Shop Boys (insert gag reflex here).

Non-Flemish readers will not get this: Hoehel int westvloms. Flemish readers: set yer cup of coffee aside before clicking!

The twoika, er troika, of tykes behind The Shawk Haters Club have got news for you. And to help spwead the message about the dangers of “shawks,” these pint-sized third-gwaders have pwepared this fwiendly public sewvice announcement.

Admit it: you always wanted a portrait of you with Stevie Nicks, didn’t you? Well now you can.

Guitar collectioners, on your marks: a guitar built with a horse’s skull (picture here ) is being auctioned on eBay.

Richy C: Worryingly enough, I’ve managed to find 581 synonyms for male masturbation – but only 35 for female… (ed. note: I promise to not blog anything masturbatory for a while after this! ;-)

This is just too funny: The Combovers Experience. And so is this if you hadn’t seen it already.

There’s nothing quite like cleaning out the catbox shortly after you’ve had a sumptuous meal (and as an added bonus, noticing the cat itself had some pretty sumptuous meals as well earlier in the day).

Most Loathsome People in America, 2002. Where the hell are Bush and Cheney in that list?? Surely they’d have been a better choice than Michael Moore, who did make it in there…

A matter of gender: “I have only ever known one woman to be a fan of FZ (she was from California so may have had a parochial interest in where she could get her poodle clipped in Burbank).All the other … Continue reading →

“It’s weird to deconstruct the sounds of sex. It makes you conscious of a lot of stuff you’d normally ignore. I remember thinking, like, oh, that slap will make a good snare drum. Or, wow, that was a freakish set … Continue reading →

The Big Note update their Musibrarium with a taste of the Frank Zappa “Mystery Box” 10 LP set. This month’s mini-concert is culled from some of FZ’s mid to late ’70’s television appearances. Under Tribute Acts you’ll find a bunch … Continue reading →

The Irreverent Guide to Barbra Streisand. ‘Nuff said…