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Category Archives: Amusing
Baby Your Face Is Mutated
The Tubes are a San Francisco-based theatre rock band founded in the early 1970s and known for their live performances which combined lewd quasi-pornography and wild satires of media, showbiz excess, consumerism and politics. Influenced by the Mothers of Invention … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Misc
Tagged audio/visual, Captain Beefheart, covers, live acts, Mothers of Invention, The Tubes
29 Comments
First Church of Zuppuology
R. Gayle Shiester: Welcome to the First Church of Zuppuology! Don’t you be Tarot-fied We are here to help you fill the cultural vacuum Don’t you be Tarot-fied Just pay your dues to the estate of the founder FRONK ZUPPU!!! … Continue reading
San ValentÃn A Medida
You there with the emerging Hallmark Valentine Nausea and the Spanish accent: you might just want to send one of these. Not your thing? How about these? Hey, Dr Sharl and I had loads of fun making them. Pardon the … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Comics, Randamonium, Visual Arts
Tagged ecards, hallmark, valentine, weirdo cards
3 Comments
A Compulsive Commenter Speaks
A descent into the bizarre kingdom of the comments window. Based on actual facts. Here comes the train! MOOOOO
Posted in Amusing, Bizarre, Randamonium, Silly
Tagged audience participation, Freaks, i'm your biggest fan, Video
9 Comments
Year of the Freak: February (the weesa)
In honor of that special individual who has stuck by the freak through the long years of freakdom — be it a friend, a girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, mate, ex-wife or ex-husband (hey, you can’t expect everyone to stick around: twenty … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Personal, Zappa Audio/Video
Tagged Audio, freak's spouses, Freaks, gratitude, year of the freak, Zappa
11 Comments
El Copyright Del Mundo Invisible
Maroual writes in with the following question: Could the Gala-Salvador Dalà Foundation send a C&D letter? … and refers to this post he made on the Zäppî forums: The Zappa Wazoo liner notes mention “Cover Art ‘Mundo Invisible’ (oil on … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, It Can Happen Here?, Visual Arts
Tagged cease & desist, copyright, fair use, parody, zappa wazoo, zft
3 Comments
Year of the Freak: January (the rat)
In honor of our friendly neighborhood webmaster, Barry, and due to unfortunate circumstances beyond his control whereby the discography section can no longer post images of a thumbnail nature, I post the above. Hey, any excuse for a guitar solo … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
Tagged album artwork, photos, posters, year of the freak, Zappa
10 Comments
The Continuing Saga Of Franko Zappacio
1. part Gail Zappa discovers that Isaak is Jane23’s real child’s father. Jane23 asks his husband not to take away Gail Zappa’s position, together wanted it to make jump they. Paul Sempschi obliged to reveal the old secret. His mother … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Silly
Tagged audience participation, Brazil, machine, stupidity, telenovela
29 Comments
Zappa Legacy
With all the verbose verbiage over the Zappa legacy lately, I found the posting “on pop 13: mike keneally & the zappa legacy” over at Eugene Baak’s weblog, Another Beautiful Day, quite insightful.
A Reader’s View, 2007
Another year is (almost) over, so as a reader of this site (for years now!!!), I’d just like to wish good luck and happyness to the Owners Of This Site, and a Happy New Year – to Barry’s Imaginary Publisher … Continue reading
Skip.
google.com/search?q=zappa+wazoo: I rest my case. To be perfectly clear: I think the Zappa/Wazoo release is fantastic. However this is how the “official†page shows up in Google (and other search engine) results — “skipâ€, the link that allows you to … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Zappa Misc
Tagged flash, google, search, usability, zappa wazoo, zft
42 Comments
Howard Kaylan Interview
When Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman joined the Mothers, they were used to being judged by the last record they made. “That’s bullshit!” Frank said. “Your life is your artistic canvas…” Hear more about this, as well as more on … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Randamonium, Zappa Misc
Tagged Audio, flo & eddie, howard kaylan, interview, mothers, musical history, podcast, turtles
19 Comments
The Man Belonged In A Strait Jacket
Blogs 4 Brownback on Zappa: The man belonged in a strait jacket. Wherever he is now, I’m sure it’s hot and I don’t want to go there. He was one of the deviant perverts who subsumed American culture in the … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Politics
Tagged censorship, conservatives, Politics, republicans
54 Comments
Here’s One I Prepared Earlier
For my birthday Dr Sharl got me a wicked little Wacom drawing tablet. Takes some getting used to, but with a bit of help from Jackson Pollock, adequate results are obtained in a snap: Opening bid at 10,000 euro. Anyone?
Foot Badminton
..well, with nothing to do with Frank Zappa, sorry. But it looks crazy! Here are some pictures of the recent world-championship – and here’s a tiny video. Isn’t it amazing?