Way Cool Item of the Day - Roger Corman's Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement

Way Cool Item of the Day - The Meeker Museum

Way Cool Item of the Day - The Lower Eastside Girls Club Bake Shop

Way Cool Item of the Day ~ Roger Corman’s Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement
It’s 1959 in San Francisco’s low rent district. At the local beatnik hangout, Walter Paisley busses tables and pines for a comely hipster artist chick named Carla. He’s an outsider the hip kids make fun of and he can never seem to fit in. The place is full of beat poets who recite their self righteous, overly hip poetry to bongo drums. One night Walter is home trying to become a sculptor so he can impress Carla and accidentally kills his neighbor’s cat. He decides to cover the cat in clay and calls it “Dead Cat,” which Carla thinks is genius. This spurs him on to kill other living things and make sculptures out of them. This is the inspired plot of Rog

Way Cool Item of the Day ~ The Meeker Museum
Every once in awhile I run across a website that completely sucks me in and before I know it… hours have flown by. Such a site is the Meeker Museum, dedicated to actor Ralph Meeker, who started in musicals in the 1950’s and had roles on both TV and in feature films through the 1970s. He played Mike Hammer in the 1955 Robert Aldrich classic film of Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me Deadly. The Meeker Museum lovingly recounts Meeker’s career as well

Way Cool Item of the Day ~ The Lower Eastside Girls Club Bake Shop
Somehow we’ve gotten around to that time of the year again when all of a sudden Halloween gives way to Thanksgiving and then five minutes later it’s Christmas. So if you’re looking around for interesting gift giving ideas why not also give back to the community and support Girl Power at the same time? The Lower Eastside Girls Club Sweet Things Bake Shop can hit both those notes for you. Celebrate autumn with their hand-painted leaf and acorn shaped butter cookies. Order an Autumn in New York Cookie Tin, or a City Winte

Way Cool Item of the Day ~ Amanda Palmer
If you’ve been reading SDJ for awhile you’ll know that occasionally I predict that Amanda Palmer AKA Amanda Fucking Palmer AKA Force of Nature / New Media Goddess will eventually be a name everyone knows due to her most awesome talent as a singer, songwriter, and performer. Well it’s that time again because AFP is about to embark on a short tour of the East Coast which begins tonight in Burlington, VT and ends on November 22 in Knoxville, Tennessee. New York is sold out for the show this weekend, but if you’re in Portland Maine, Northampton MA, Philadelphia, Falls Church VA, Carrboro NC, or Knoxville - do consider spendin

Way Cool Item of the Day ~ The Joan Jett Barbie Doll
In case you didn’t know (for shame), Joan Jett is one kick-ass, gorgeous, amazing, hard rocking, original riot grrrl beeyotch. To my great surprise and delight today I found out that Mattel (who are, apparently, still swell) will be presenting the Joan Jett Barbie Doll to the world in December, as part of the Ladies of the ’80’s Collection. I can hardly think of a better role model for the Barbie doll-playing-set, hella yeah! The text description of the doll reads - and no, I did not make this