Museum Plaza Not Dead Yet

JSH's gallery space in the on again/off again Museum Plaza may still come to pass after all. Someday.

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/12/museum-plaza-breakthrough.html

Buffalo Field Campaign

JSH artwork will soon be displayed in the offices of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar in Washington, D.C. :

http://jshdc.blogspot.com/2010/12/buffalo-field-campaign.html

Return to Room 237

Uh-oh, he's back on "The Shining" again:

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/12/temporarily-light.html

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/12/devils-advocaat.html

December Status Report

"There's other impending news in the offing, though it's not quite time to speak of it here. But I will say that my old eatin'-and-drinkin' column Nightlife Notes will soon return as part of a new journalistic endeavor that will be launched on January 1st.

Stay tuned, pallies. The rollercoaster is about to begin."

http://transmissionsfromagentj.blogspot.com/2010/12/december-status-report.html

Does This Mean Us?

" I'm adopting a "zero tolerance" policy for rude people, crazies, obnoxious assholes, psychic vampires, unenthusiastic mopers, negative nellies and naysayers."

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/12/twilight-of-psychic-vampires.html

Acer in Review

JSH reviews the Acer Aspire One D260 netbook:

http://jeffreyscottholland.blogspot.com/2010/11/acer-is-aces.html

Transylvania Colony

JSH finally goes YouTube in a big way:

http://voraxica.blogspot.com/2010/09/transylvania-colony.html

Balsamic Vinegar Martini

Doesn't sound good at all, but I guess he knows what he's doing:

http://transmissionsfromagentj.blogspot.com/2010/08/balsamic-vinegar-martini.html

Cave City Becoming a Ghost Town

"We need to organize a determined squad of entrepreneurs to go down there on a mission to help restore Cave City's beautifully tacky tourist trade."

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/08/abandoned-cave-city-tourist-attractions.html

Son of a Grimaldi!

JSH releases two short snippets from his play in progress about, what else, clowns.

http://jeffreyscottholland.blogspot.com/2010/08/son-of-grimaldi-bits-and-pieces.html

Please Dough Nut Eat This

A slab of beef, bacon and egg wedged between two Krispy Kreme donuts? I think I'm going to hurl right now.

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/08/donut-cheeseburgers-coming-to-kentucky.html

Call for Plays... Sort Of

Catclaw Theatre is making a renewed call for play script submissions, but JSH pretty much lays down the law about what they don't want to see - which is a lot!

http://catclawtheatre.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-for-plays.html

Commonwealth Curiosities

JSH has a new gig writing for Kentucky Monthly Magazine!

http://jeffreyscottholland.blogspot.com/2010/08/commonwealth-curiosities.html

Saudi Arabian Superclock

"The four faces of the Mecca Clock are illuminated by 2 million LED lights. "In the name of Allah". The Mecca Clock will display, of course, Arabia Standard Time (three hours ahead of GMT). The clock faces are 151 feet in diameter, which dwarfs the face of Big Ben (23 feet in diameter) considerably. The Big Ben clock was installed in 1859 to replace the Palace of Westminster's which had been destroyed by fire in 1834."

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post.html

Verti-gone

JSH deconstructs Hitchcock's most misunderstood film, but reading about Vertigo gives me vertigo.

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/08/carlotta-valdez.html

Cubeb?

What is Cubeb? Apparently you smoke it. Edgar Rice Burroughs did, and look at him.

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/08/cubeb.html

That Floridian Flavor

On the sad state of cigarette smoking in Florida:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/08/florida-smokes.html

Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie

"I once heard Jack Endino refer to Billy Childish derogatorily as "that Louie Louie guy", and I understood then that battle lines were drawn, perhaps billions of years ago, between we who are Louie Louie guys and those who don't have the Louie gene. Jack, there's something that you lack."

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/08/louie.html

The Grave of Marvin Finn

The colorful headstone of Louisville folk-artist and bird fancier Marvin Finn:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/08/marvin-finns-grave.html

Joe the Strummer

JSH names Joe Strummer's "Earthquake Weather" as the soundtrack to his own "lost years":

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/07/strummer-wind.html

A Cometary Lapse

I didn't know it was possible to say this much about Bill Haley.

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-and-times-of-bill-haley.html

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/07/one-for-money.html

Oomp Boomp

"Spotted on YouTube: a rare 45 record from 1959 called "Oomp Boomp", by the obscure Louisville band The Rhythm-Addicts."

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/07/oomp-boomp.html

Heels and Heads

"I can see all women personified in them, every woman I've ever known and loved, embedded and embodied in these five archetypes. Is it pathetic to be getting misty-eyed over a freakin' *Go-Gos video?* Don't answer that."

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/07/that-1984-feeling.html

Colonels and Cocktails

Crazy Cocktails and the Counterfeit Colonels who love them:

http://transmissionsfromagentj.blogspot.com/2010/07/kentucky-colonel-cocktail.html

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/07/colonel-of-matrix.html

Edgar Cayce

Kentucky's "sleeping prophet" turns out to be even nuttier than I thought he was:

"Cayce taught that an alien civilization on the planets of Arcturus is one of the most advanced in this galaxy. He described it a "fifth-dimensional civilization that is a prototype of Earth's future". From this, an entire army of spinoff UFO religions devoted to the Arcturians sprouted in the subsequent century, with many post-Cayce wannabe-channelers claiming to be Arcturians themselves, such as Commander Theda."

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/07/edgar-cayce.html

Toulouse-inations Poster

"I was pulled in all directions and losing my mind, feeling like Geoffrey Tennant in any given episode of Slings and Arrows."

http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/2010/07/toulouse-inations-poster-1.html

Journey of 1000 Years

"And now it's all very clear..."

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/07/can-you-feel-it-coming.html

The Ghosts of "The Shining"

They aren't exactly ghosts after all.

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/07/shine-like-arclight.html

I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop

"I dreamt I was sittin' in a swell cafe, hungry as a bear.
My stomach sent a telegram to my throat: "There's a wreck on the road somewhere."
I heard the voice of a pork chop say: "Come unto me and rest."
Well you talk about your stewing beans, I know what's the best.
You can talk about your chicken, ham and eggs, turkey stuffed and dressed,
But I heard the voice of a pork chop say "Come unto me and rest."

http://creepsrecords.blogspot.com/2010/07/jim-jackson-i-heard-voice-of-pork-chop.html

Excerpt from "714"

An excerpt from JSH's out of print novel "714":

http://jeffreyscottholland.blogspot.com/2010/07/714.html

Son of a Clown

Again with the Clowns? JSH says he is writing a play about Joey Grimaldi and his son...

http://catclawtheatre.blogspot.com/2010/06/son-of-grimaldi.html

Vanderbilt

The life and times of Gloria Vanderbilt, and her CIA agent son Anderson Cooper:

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/06/gloria-vanderbilt.html

Jagerbombs: Why?

"if you're in a bar spending your hard-earned bucks on booze, why on Earth would you want to choose a drink with which the effects of intoxication are masked?! Save your money and just don't drink, if that's the case!"

http://transmissionsfromagentj.blogspot.com/2010/06/dont-get-jagerbombed.html

The Kentucky Singers

"We don't even know if the Kentucky Singers were really Kentuckians, and the odds are actually against it, since it was apparently the fashion at the time to adopt a faux-Kentuckian image - witness Henny Hendrickson's Louisville Serenaders, a bunch of Jersey guys who probably never set foot in Louisville in their lives. And Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders, based out of Pennsylvania."

http://voraxica.blogspot.com/2010/06/kentucky-singers.html

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/06/kentucky-singers.html

What is "Hiero-Nog"?

Your friendly bartender JSH explains:

http://transmissionsfromagentj.blogspot.com/2010/06/hiero-nog.html

Whirl + Twirl + Girl

Al Gore invented the internet so you could watch kinescopes of roller-skating vaudeville acts from 1950.

http://voraxica.blogspot.com/2010/05/whirl-twirl-and-girl.html

Dennis Hopper, RIP

"Dennis Hopper is dead and I don't feel so good myself."

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/05/dennis-menace.html

Not Al!

JSH bemoans the preponderance of mp3s falsely attributed to Weird Al Yankovic:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/05/not-al-list.html

Happy Birthday to JSH!

"I was born on this date in the year of our Lord, Nineteen hundred and sixty-six. Just two weeks prior, on Walpurgisnacht, the Church of Satan was founded by Anton LaVey who declared MCMLXVI to be "Year One" in the new age."

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post.html

Happy Birthday to The Smacks!

Belatedly, anyway. May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, was the 12th anniversary of this seminal (and semenal) Creeps band.

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/05/12-years-of-smackmania.html

Rogers, We Barely Knew Ye

Remember Lexington's Rogers Restaurant? Neither do we, but JSH sure does:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/05/rogers-restaurant.html

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/05/rogers-restaurant.html

Frozen Failure

JSH's continuing efforts to find a better frozen coffee:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/05/further-frozen-failure.html

Writing About Writing

Another new JSH blog has mushroomed, one focused on his writing:

http://jeffreyscottholland.blogspot.com/

Super Saver Takes The Derby

And JSH wins again!

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/05/something-something-something-super.html

Mint Condition

Ruminations on the true mint julep recipe:

http://transmissionsfromagentj.blogspot.com/2010/05/mint-julep.html

And an old southern gentlemen's version:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/05/gentlemans-julep.html

More Tombstone Junction Images

A reader sends in scans of old photos from Tombstone Junction's heyday:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-tombstone-junction-images.html

Shambala and Shombalor

The true meaning of Shambala:

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/04/road-to-shambala.html

And the unknown meaning of Shombalor:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/04/shombalor.html

The "Aunt Beru" Cocktail

I'm going back someday, come what may, to blue beru:

http://transmissionsfromagentj.blogspot.com/2010/04/aunt-beru-and-blue-leader.html

Meat on the Table

Hear a slice of hot 20's jazz from the New Orleans Owls:

http://creepsrecords.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-orleans-owls-meat-on-table.html

Vermilion Quotations

The crispiest of all the crispy cards?

http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/2010/04/vermilion-quotations.html

Old News

Like Anton LaVey, JSH prefers to read newspapers from the Victorian era.

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-get-1918s-papers-today.html

Red Hot Roasters in Food Network Magazine

I'll have the bourbon ball muffin, please.

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/86186/Red_Hot_Roasters_Derby_Muffins_in_Food_Network_Magazine_

A Farewell to Fraps

After years of Frappuccino-addiction, JSH finds they've changed the formula to something weak, flavorless, and undrinkable. Sucks to be him.

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/04/end-of-era-origin-of-error.html

I See A Pink Door and I Want to Paint it Gray

No mo' pink do'.

http://vacantstores.blogspot.com/2010/04/pink-door.html

Where There's A Head, There's Hope

A misleading headline on the Courier-Journal leads to a distasteful tangent on severed heads and grisly scientific research in transplanting them.

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/04/head-transplant-success.html

Asleep Twelve Years

This just in, breaking news from 1906: a Kentucky man does a Rip Van Winkle.

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/04/asleep-twelve-years.html

Wipe "Em Off

You don't hear many songs about wiping these days.

http://creepsrecords.blogspot.com/2010/04/seven-gallon-jug-band-wipe-em-off.html

Recipe for the Veranda, from the Veranda

JSH's latest invention: an apple-maple-bourbon-honey cocktail called "The Veranda".

http://transmissionsfromagentj.blogspot.com/2010/03/veranda-cocktail.html

Photo from January 1984

A never-before-seen photograph of JSH has turned up in the JLK collection.

http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/2010/03/january-1984.html

The Pitchin' Wedge

"I drove myself insane singing Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind" over and over but substituting the words "Pitchin' Wedge"."

http://vacantstores.blogspot.com/2010/03/pitchin-wedge.html

15,000 Farmers

"When it comes to Earth Day and Arbor Day, a lot of people talk the talk, but how many really walk the walk?"

http://louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/85865/15_000_Farmers_Can_t_Be_Wrong

Drinkin' at Al J's

A suave saloon between the Galt House's twin towers.

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/03/al-js-at-galt-house.html

The Cherry Sisters

JSH's recurring obsession with the Cherry Sisters has flared up again:

http://catclawtheatre.blogspot.com/2010/03/invasion-of-cherry-sisters.html

http://voraxica.blogspot.com/2010/03/cherry-sisters-revisited.html

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/85657/Cherry_Sisters_Revisited_at_Humana_Fest__review_by_J_S__Holland_

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/03/cherries-ripe-boom-de-ay.html

Let Kirstie Alley Be Your Organic Liaison

The self-described "fat actress" is no longer fat! She's looking great, feeling great, and has a new diet plan, a new movie, and a new TV show...

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/85626/Kirstie_Alley_Wants_To_Be_Your_Organic_Liaison

Is "Flash Forward" the new "Lost"?

Well, no, probably not, but it does have Charlie and Penny in it:

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/85555/Is_Anyone_Actually_Watching__Flash_Forward__

The Planet Pulcova?

Apparently a bunch of new planets have snuck in the back door while I was out...

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/03/dont-panic.html

The Fax Machine Was Invented in 1846.

Hold on, that can't be right. Oh crap, it is. How is that possible?

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/03/fun-fax-facts.html

Lucia di Lammermoor

What do Walt Disney, Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas, The Three Stooges, and an obscure 1920s pianist named Ferdinand Himmelreich have in common? They all helped revive this obscure Italian opera from 1835:

http://creepsrecords.blogspot.com/2010/03/ferdinand-himmelreich-lucia-sextet.html

Coal From Hell

What is coal, *really*? It's mostly carbon, and what's *that* made of?

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-is-coal.html

What's so Weird about Phobos?

Plenty.

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/03/something-is-not-right-about-phobos.html

Has Big Love Jumped the Shark?

Yes.

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/85385/Has__Big_Love__Jumped_the_Shark_

Take With Food Or Milk

A book so tiny, you might as well just swallow it and let the comics absorb into your bloodstream:

http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/2010/03/take-with-food-or-milk.html

Transylvania Gentlemen St Patrick's Pub Crawl

Go drinking with JSH. And kiss him, he's Irish:

http://catclawtheatre.blogspot.com/2010/03/transylvania-gentlemen-pub-crawl.html

Is the Jim Bunning Foundation a Scam?

You decide.

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/85225/Jim_Bunning_Foundation_Accused_of_Fraud

The Nebra Sky Disk

It looks like a winky-face to me. But it's actually the sun, the moon and an Egyptian boat on a bronze circle that's turning history on its head.

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/02/nebra-sky-disk.html

Paradise

Apparently before it was by the dashboard light, it was in Muhlenberg County.

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/02/paradise.html

"From Four Till Late" painting

And all this time I thought the title meant she was just listening to records all night long...

http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-four-till-late.html

Cockfighting in Kentucky

JSH goes after cops and cocks:

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/85096/Kentucky_State_Trooper_in_Cockfighting_Scandal

JSH at Costco

The book signing went well, even though he was competing with tubs of cheese dip:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/02/costco-through-tulips.html

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/02/thanks-costco.html

The Man Who Wears The Star

The loviest gun in the West.

http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/2010/02/man-who-wears-star.html

Tuesday, Fat

Mardi Gras season has begun, and JSH is all over it. Fat Tuesday celebrations in KY:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/02/fat-tuesday-in-kentucky.html

JSH's hurricane recipe:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/02/tuesdays-glass-is-full-of-grace.html

And rare color footage of the 1941 Mardi Gras:

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/02/mardi-gras-1941.html

JSH book signing at Costco!

"this being at a Costco rather than a bookstore proper, I'm assuming a lot of folks are there to buy macaroni and cheese dinners by the pallet-load, and containers of mayonnaise the size of anti-freeze jugs, not to see some weirdo from Estill County who paints scary clowns."

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/84892/_Weird_Kentucky__Book_Signing_at_Costco

The Rialto

Beautiful historic theater building gets torn down by short-sighted idiots. So what else is new?


http://voraxica.blogspot.com/2010/02/rialto.html

The Archaeology of Groceries?

I don't get it.

http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/2010/02/larcheologie-des-epiceries.html

My Son, The Cat

JSH gently pokes fun at all the soccer-mom "my son is so precious" blogs in Louisville Mojo's "Parenting" department by waggishly saluting his "son" Krampus:

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/84800/My_Son_Krampus_Is_Very_Special

Is Kentucky the New Detroit?

No. But it's close:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/02/kentucky-detroit.html

Happy Joey Grimaldi Day!

Who's Joey Grimaldi? Read on.

http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/2010/02/portrait-of-joey-grimaldi.html

Frankenstein Sinatra

Be careful, Igor, it's my heart.

http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/2010/02/frankenstein-sinatra.html

Colonel Sanders Bust Stolen

Bring me the head of Colonel Sanders:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/02/search-for-colonels-bronze-head.html

New Telecrylic Blog

Telecrylic International, the international association of owners of Jeffrey Scott Holland artwork, has a new blog:


http://telecrylic.blogspot.com/

Kentucky Going to Outer Space

Low Earth Orbit counts, right?

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/01/kentuckys-first-satellite.html

Kentucky Going Nuclear?

It could happen.

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/84340/Kentucky_Going_Nuclear_

All-Elvis Radio

Must be something in the water in Richmond.

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/01/1067-goes-all-elvis.html

The Return of JSH

"Like the Dick Cheney, I've relocated to an undisclosed location. One where a man can sit on the veranda in the nude and read comic books and sip Jefferson's Reserve and build a levee, brick by brick, gulp by gulp."

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/01/missing-time.html

Night of January 16th

Obscure Ayn Rand play, in which the audience takes part as the jury in a trial and determines its ending:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/01/night-of-january-16th.html

Loosely based on the life of Ivar "The Match King" Kreuger:

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/01/match-king.html

Unwoman

A youtube video of a goth-tinged cello player calling herself "Unwoman":

http://voraxica.blogspot.com/2010/01/unwoman.html

Vernian Process

JSH is apparently quite taken with a steampunk-synth band called Vernian Process:

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/01/vernian-process.html

And you can download their new album here:

http://creepsrecords.blogspot.com/2010/01/vernian-process-behold-machine-lp.html

"KISS Army" Tribute Band Robbed

A KISS tribute band is looking for its trailerful of stolen gear...

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/01/kiss-tribute-band-robbed.html

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/84137/Local_KISS_Tribute_Band_Robbed

Birds and Drones and Aeroplanes

Are tens of thousands of flying robot drones making the friendly skies unfriendly?

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/01/bird-plane-collisions-skyrocketing.html

PETA to Invade Corbin, KY?

I don't think they'll be very popular there.

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/01/peta-coming-to-corbin.html

Crossdressing Bankrobber

The short crime career of a man in drag from Brodhead:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/01/crossdressing-bankrobber.html

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/01/crossdressing-bankrobber-caught.html

Century Notes

Will 2010 really be "the year we make contact"?

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2010/01/mmx.html


And even if so, does JSH still like 1910 better?

http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2010/01/mcmx.html

Bikes vs. Cars

"When I'm in my car, I hate bicyclists, and when I'm on my bike, I despise motorists."

http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/83815/Bikes_vs__Cars__The_Unsolvable_Problem

Cornbread at the Table

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mister Cornbread Red, pool shark extraordinaire:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2010/01/cornbread-red.html

Spirals Gone Viral

Everyone's talking about these spooky spirals in the sky lately. Now some guy in Kentucky is even having portentious dreams about them...

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2009/12/spiral-dreams.html