Archive for April, 2010

April 29th, 2010

A (Not So) Complete History of Penis Tattoos

Dick tattoos, ya gotta love ‘em! Any macho muchacho can tattoo their man meat, but it takes a special kind of individual to tattoo a dick on themselves. Wanna have some fun at your local pool this summer? Strip down to your Speedo to reveal that flying cock on your thigh and revel in the [...]

April 22nd, 2010

Meade in America

Alexa Meade’s art might make your head hurt. But that’s kind of the point. You’ll cock your head, squint your eyes and move just a little closer to figure out exactly what’s real and what isn’t in her paintings. What she does is paint people. Or rather, paints on people. In a painstaking process using [...]

April 16th, 2010

15 Kinds of Awesome

Look, every post can’t be a total winner. Like this one for example, which is little more than a collection of 15 links, photos and videos. But at least it features David Lee Roth, Ice-T and a Pontiac Fiero. On the other hand, it also features Insane Clown Posse, Bill Maher and Guy Fieri — [...]

April 11th, 2010

Book Review: ‘Gimme Something Better’

It’s a big job to write a history book. Perhaps that’s why Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, authors of “Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day,” decided to make theirs an oral history rather than writing their own. Sure you still have [...]

April 4th, 2010

Q&A: Danielle Colby-Cushman of ‘American Pickers’

Danielle Colby-Cushman is a hipster renaissance woman. Not only does she star on the History Channel’s freshman hit “American Pickers,” where she manages the shop featured on the show, but she’s a mom, wife, clothing designer, burlesque dancer and former roller derby queen. “Pickers,” an hour-long reality series…

April 2nd, 2010

Twang and Thunder

Here’s a look (and listen) to some records that have been cluttering up our desk and inboxes here at YuppiePunk World HQ. Though none of these titles inspired us to write 3000-word soliloquys, we figured we could at least muster 50 and an MP3…