HOW TO BECOME THE KING OF PASSION FASHION

The secret is rubber padding!

[Via The Lazy World Of Arthur Ignatowski]

I’m not sure which I like more – the languid narration or the scene with Frederick Mellinger testing the inflatable bra.

FUN FACT #1: The push-up bra? Frederick’s invented that.

FUN FACT #2: A very good friend of mine (who I won’t name as she’s on the f-list and might not want this known) used to be the manager of a Frederick’s outlet. She gained a lifetime’s worth of anecdotes in something like a year on the job. And I’ve artlessly stolen more than a few of them in the name of fiction. If I ever get a book deal, I’ll give her full credit.

Blow me up, Freddie,

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I LOST MY EQUILIBRIUM, MY CAR KEYS AND MY PRIDE

The great thing about the Interwub is that it’s always full of surprises if yr willing to click randomly enough.

For example, did you know that there’s a Tom Waits cartoon?

And that it features him dancing with a burlesque queen?

Well there is. It’s called “Tom Waits For No One”, directed by John Lamb and featuring Waits’ “The One That Got Away”. And it’s available only on YouTube.

It’s also somewhat NSFW near the end. Just so you know.

For fun, here’s a clip of the original live-action footage.

FUN FACT: John Lamb was the co-inventor of the video rotoscope technology that allowed you to do rotoscoping on videotape so you could test the animation ahead of the final production process, and thus do it faster. Ralph Bakshi was his first customer.

Anyway, the story behind the short is here. Amazingly, it was never released commercially – no one wanted it at the time. Even Elektra/Asylum Records, Waits’ label at the time, didn’t know what to do with it. (MTV wouldn’t exist for another two years).

Coulda been on Easy Street,

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