We will be setting up a table of goods at the upcoming Vermillion Lies show at Unique Ink in Fredricktown Missouri (Sunday, Aug 17th)! It’s quite the trip from Saint Louis, but the Unique Ink shop is totally cool and this show is surely going to be worth it!

Hope to see you there!

(oh and the the image was snatched from the Vermillion Lies myspace page.)

We’re now carrying Brett Marren’s album: Kitchen Sink! Brett and Sam Kertz made this super awesome listening station for the shop! You can stop in now and hear Brett’s CD, which will make you want to buy it. It’s seriously one of my favorite things in the store right now, and we’ve already sold a copy! It’s only $6.66, so if that alone doesn’t sell it to you, then there isn’t much more I can offer you.

You showed up in hordes, consumed the Shangri-La Diner with nonsense, and created some of the most bizarre artwork the world has seen! Thank you Neo-Dadaist, Thank you.

Get you lazy bum over to this flickr set, where you can see 40+ images of DaDa nonsense.

The second DADA Salon is tonight at Shangri-La Diner (2201 Cherokee) from 8pm-12am! We will be serving up some of the most surreal experiences, crazy antics, and outlandish parlor games to keep the evening fresh! Just bring yourself, your costume, your art supplies, and some witty banter… we will supply the rest! It’s like a rolled potato, good and easy to hold.

Oh and Michelle (LemonSqueezie) is planning a damn clever hidden message hunt. BAM!

See you tonight! You better be there… or else we might think you’re normal…

You can expect to see these sexy little things hanging around Saint Louis very soon. If you happen to see one, you should photograph it and let us know. We will probably give you some free stuff if you do.

We have a ton of blank stickers left, so if you come into the store just to sit around and bother me… I’ll put your ass to work making some. You’ll be shuffling sharpies until your fingers bleed.

Stan Chisholm rocked the crowds at his 2008 Solo/Curated Show WhatMakesSense. The evening went down so smoothly, which is pretty surprising considering we set EVERYTHING up that day.

The show featured 2 (kind of) musical sets by Dolor and The Great Mundane. Sadly, Dolor’s set was killed early by some unfortunate technical difficulties. Boo on computers and their fussy dispositions.

We put up this really awesome outdoor photo-booth! You could grab an 18andCounting mascot head and pose with your friends for a special snapshot to remember the night. We’ve posted all the photos in a flickr set. Go check them out.

After most of the people left, and most the beer had been consumed, The night settled into a small intimate dance party. I was pretty tired so I just complained about how hungry I was. If you were there, I’m sure you heard me mumbling about the damn dancers. It was really great though, and had I been more rested, I would have been shaking my tush too!

The show will be up at Cranky Yellow for the rest of August. Stop in and check it out! There is some really great stuff on display!

Just look at all of these babies; it’s like a nursery full of edifice defacing goodness!

Here’s 18andCounting (sometimes known as Stan Chisholm) himself! He’s offering a free tour of the sticker-press to anyone who refuses to attend the show and take some home!

The show starts 7Pm, ending whenever we feel like getting rid of you people! 2122 Cherokee Street (Saint Louis) is where it’s at. Bring a friend, bring a date, bring some appreciation! (In the form of cash, check, or priceless bauble).

Okay, so apparently this is Mod-Duck’s 80s mummy twin sister; Modeta-Duck. She decided to stop by and scare the ever-loving crap out of me by showing off her deformed child Shing-Shing. Shing-Shing was born with a birth defect that makes a fetus develop into a very large, scary, and off-colored fetus instead of a human baby, child, teen, and adult. I know I shouldn’t react in this way towards people with disabilities; but it’s hard to contain the sheer freaky-ness of Shing-Shing’s condition.

What you are seeing in this picture is Modeta-Duck and Shing-Shing’s somewhat famous trick. Modeta puts one of Shing’s tentacle-fetus-e-hands into her mouth; with that in place Shing can imitate other people’s voices and read some of what is in someone’s mind. Don’t ask me how this is possible; I left the house before they started their little traveling sideshow act. (I asked a few people how it went but most were too shaken from the experience to reply).

(In case you’re wondering, Modeta-Duck’s head was crafted by Jenny Harada, her clothes by Jacqui, and Shing-Shing came straight from the twisted mind of David Wolk himself).

On multiple occasions I’ve noticed small children drawn to the wall, like little maggots to rotting flesh, with wide eyes that openly accept the “cranky” indoctrination… some call it brain-washing, I call it an easy way for kids to get free candy. Not that I would ever bribe simple-minded children to do my bidding… erm. No. Never. Ahem.

You can be indoctrinated too, just look below: