eric lab rat

Anthropomorphic prawn in a black turtleneck and gold chain

Anthropomorphic prawn in a black turtleneck and gold chain

Anthropomorphic prawn in a black turtleneck and gold chain

Also I love that Pepe the Prawn frequently—but not exclusively—dresses like that one picture of The Rock.

This meme is from a year ago, this red carpet pic with Ashanti is from TWENTY YEARS AGO, and this is Pepe today. WHEN DID THIS START AND WAS IT INTENTIONAL?

5'3" Paul Williams being dwarfed by Sweetums, Thog, and another giant Muppet in the 1970s

5'3" Paul Simon being dwarfed by 5'0" Sabrina Carpenter in the 2020s

I was hoping the Muppet special would have Paul Williams pop in for a bit because

1) he wrote so many of the Muppets' classic songs

2) after seeing her duet with Paul Simon, I want to see Sabrina Carpenter next to all the tiny men who wrote beautiful songs in the '70s

Sign warning that a fence is covered in nightshade: "Striking purple flowers and red berries; beautiful but toxic. Do not eat." It's not a haiku but it almost feels like one

Outside the goth show at the repurposed meatpacking plant that now does sustainable farming

(I 🖤 Chicago so much)

Some first listens this week that I liked but didn't love
Fave tracks:

• A$AP Rocky - ROBBERY (feat Doechii)
• Danny Elfman - Cool City
• Frank Zappa - I Come From Nowhere
• The Damned - There's a Ghost in my House

Chubby grey kittycat on his hind legs to eat off my plate on the coffee table

Can't believe this motherfucker STOOD UP to steal my tamale

WEIRDER FAMILY FILM INDUSTRIAL MUSIC MOMENT

In RANGO, Hans fucking Zimmer mixes the Lard song "Forkboy" into the score, in a chaotic scene ending in a Fear & Loathing cameo.

The band LARD is Ministry + Jello Biafra.

It's like 1 minute tailor made for teenage me 😵‍💫

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Does anyone doing community defense in an ICE hot spot need money for printing zines/know your rights cards? Or would you like a box of professionally printed KYR cards? We can accommodate both. For boxes of cards we’d want to do volume though, like 5000+

Work decided not to open and give everybody a paid day off because the temps were hitting double digit negative numbers and then at home my furnace stopped working.

Sometimes you just can't get a fucking win.

Some really good recent first listens

SIZE - SIZE (1980s, CDMX) - synth-heavy post punk

TANTRA - HILLS OF KATMANDU (1979, Italy) - italo disco

SPACE - MAGIC FLY (1977, France) - space disco

ZOUNDS - THE CURSE OF ZOUNDS (70s/80s, UK) - anarcho punk

✅️✅️✅️✅️ all four STILL BANG

Two friends I knew for over twenty years from different punk communities in Chicago passed this week.

I was kinda dealing with the first a couple days later and I am not ready at all for the second

seems as good a time as any to mention that i’ll be taking portraits for Wikipedia next week at Sundance, let me know if you’ll be there, come visit me at the portrait studio (or invite me to a fancy premiere) www.eventbrite.com/e/wikiportra...

There's a raccoon on the side of the highway looking so peaceful, head resting on his little paw.

I'd like to believe he died naturally, climbing down to the shoulder of the road to watch the lights whip past for one last time

Me at 26 vs me in '26

Left was a New Years party at the Members Only loft. Justice did a dj set after their Congress Theater show. The cartoon cutout backdrop was done by Melt

Right was a test shot for a headshot shoot at Turf Design

(Both by @oo0oo.bsky.social for GlitterGuts, obvz)

First comic of the year was the last comic in the AGE OF REVELATION event by Jed Mackay and Ryan Stegman.

The event had some good stuff in it, but it was kind of a bummer to have so many writers and artists I liked pausing their ongoings for so long for an alternate future storyline

Started my first (prose) book of 2026

PRIMAL SCREAMER by Nick Blinko

Watching the Muppet Movie and yearning to go to the dirtbag saloon where a flirty 1979 Madeline Kahn and 1979 Carol Kane are hanging out at the bar, and 1979 Paul Williams is jamming out on stage..

Honestly it seems pretty fuckin easy being green.

The Gay Community Tee The world has changed a lot since the first printing of this shirt. The Bullet Club isn't the force it once was. AJ Styles might be retiring in...

About to sit down and mail about a dozen or so Gay Community shirts and will gladly add yours to the pile. All sizes from S-2XL are in stock. $20 plus shipping. 🤼

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Oh nooooo, as soon as I typed that, a Teklife track came up on the playlist and now I wanna run back to the club and start *****ing my **** on anyone who smells nice on the dancefloor

Felt like a lot of HOT YOUNG BABES in their late 30s were hitting on me tonight, but I had to shut that shit down.

As a distinguished gentleman of 43, I can't fw an age gap that wide and problematic. Plus I just don't want to deal with all that youthful drama.

The two genders

It's weird when people i don't even know take a significant role in my dreams.

It's like my subconscious is introducing a whole new wacky cast of characters for a backdoor pilot.

I guess bsky pretty much has that, but I'm still switching between like 5 other apps that don't

Every social media app should have an option for an "I'm in public" feed.

Like I don't want the thirst traps and porn to go away. I just don't want them popping up when I'm scrolling on the bus or at the gym and there's people all around.

(Yeah I know she has a mix of good and bad personal politics, but she's been making my eyes bug out and go awooga like a cartoon wolf for damn near my whole life so whatcha gonna do)

Fran Drescher as Bobbi Flekman in THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984), SPINAL TAP II (2025), and in an episode of The Nanny (1997) where she gets to meet..... Fran Drescher as Fran Fine

What a fucking goddess and forever crush

What are some Italian industrial highlights in should check out, plz?

Right around where Rogers Ave intersects with Touhy. This is the building that replaced it

There was a super run down house I used to pass every day on the schoolbus and we'd trade "information" on how it was haunted or inhabited by witches or murderers.

Razed years ago and I'm sad I'll never see a picture if it, because what're the odds anyone photograph it and upload it years later?

When I was a boy, the WEEKLY Reader was half as thick as a phone book and came in four volumes, with two sections devoted to art and music and one full of alt comix.

I will never forgive Craigslist for eating up all the apartment rental, personals, and sex work ads that were keeping it afloat!