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yesssss!!!!! this is by Ben Schechter, of “the Schechter variation”! this rules!!

tonight (october 10th) dramatic instore performance by RUSSIAN ZARLAG (formerly russian tsarcasm). there will also be a movie, which will be NUTS. carlos (RZ/RT) is really unlike any performer or musician i’ve ever seen, really compelling. hopefully he’ll have some copies of his zine SLIME FREAKS.

do this do this do this

this saturday (october 11th) from 6 to 8pm, there’s an art opening at the shoppe, starring local painter keenan cassidy. the show rips already and plus he’s 13 years old. yesterday both newspapers did articles on the lad- see the womag and the telegram. the womag article is better, even though they do say “hipster”, which is a word that doesn’t actually mean anything, and the phrase “makeshift octopus”, which means “a temporary stand-in that takes the role of an octopus”, which is preposterous.

YESSSSSSSS. Joe DeGeorge, wizard-rock superstar of the band “harry and the potters“, made us this awesome video ad!!!!!!!!!! featuring turtle, boy, the duck, pizza wizard, puc man, and the puffy paint nirvana shirt that marge madigan made! KILLIN IT!!!!!!

Tribute To Duchamp
by Jacob Berendes
acoustic/kinetic sculpture
$15,000

you better believe it! fans: send in pictures of the ML stickerface that YOU put together! what, you didn’t get a sticker set yet? step to it, partner! or as roy shildt says, “don’t chumpatize yourself”. MLMLMLMLMLMLMLMLML

love this guy!

more photos from ashleigh russell’s collection of found items after the jump:

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art opening this wednesday (tomorrow, september 3) from 7 - 9pm at HBML

ashleigh russell presents the best items forgotten in books of curious lore

ashleigh had a lousy job, hiding in a book depository like john wilkes booth, or that other guy, riffling through pages to remove foreign objects before they sold on the internet. well like i said the job sucked, she quit, and now the cream of the crop of foreign objects will be on display at HBML diabolical/angelical junk shoppe, for three weeks, starting tomorrow at 7pm, with cookies and perhaps tea available.

items include photos, notes, profanity, sublimity, stuff like that. what might be titled “memorabilia”, if the thing they had in common was that they were remembered, but in fact the opposite is true.

wednesday night come out and hang and mingle. i’ve been reading a scholarly treatise on profane folklore entitled “the rationale of the dirty joke”. watch me fight tooth and nail with my own id to refrain from starting sentences with “as an englishman was heard to remark on his wedding night…” or similar constructions.

i will also be displaying a new line of semi-durable plastic toys, which will be for sale.

interested in volunteering? let’s talk!

da press release:

hey!
this saturday HBML radical junk shoppe / fake gallery / noise universe will be hosting one of it’s acclaimed silk screening events WHEREIN you, a participant, bring in a garment, flag, or burial shroud, and we apply directly and permanently an image of our predetermined choice WHILE U WAIT. this saturday from 2 to 5, the image is going to be a massive drawing of an owl.

viewed as an emblem of knowledge and erudition, also a harbinger of death, the owl is the mascot of grey-eyed athena, warrior goddess of philosophy, strategy, and metal work, and inventor of the olive. i have no idea why, but people ask all the time whether we sell anything with owls on it, outshining by orders of magnitude the next most
popular requests, which are in order: jesus, popeye, tweety bird. there’s a thoreau quote on the popularity of owls… let’s see… “Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and underdeveloped nature which [humanity] has not recognized”. i guess that goes for jesus, popeye, and tweety bird as well.

anyway, it’s this saturday (the 30th) from 2 to 5, it costs $5 per print. if you don’t want the owl screened on a clothing item, we can screen a massive sticker for you, big enough to really piss someone off. we’re also having a massive clothing sale, most items $1 minimum donation. there will also be free coffee.

HBML is at 420 pleasant st worcester ma 01609

famous painter and interior decorator gary panter raves “[HBML] sounds neat!”
acclaimed 21st century novelist dave eggers says “[HBML] [is] OK.”

directions can be given from the shop to the super-delicious verycheap bootleg vegan chinese underground (shadow economy) restaurant DUCK YAO.

if you’ve been meaning to come to the shoppe, now’s a great time, as we totally don’t have any money, or anyway not enough for next month’s rent, not nearly. please, tell your pals!

also, in re: the cosby show idea, we have put filming on hold until october, when it’s do or die and we have to finish for sure, before november’s scheduled “JFK days”.

not a lie from my mouth

jacob
hbml
hbml.org

ps- saturday’s design will also feature jesus, popeye, and tweety bird, but really tiny.

oh yah, and we’re doing two screens- one with black ink, one with white ink, so bring whatever the hell color damn shirt you f-word want!