This Australian magazine I never heard of put my pally, Ryan Keely, on the cover along with her pally, Justine Joli. The photos were taken by everyone’s favorite smutster, Ellen Stagg.

Ellen looks and is named like a tall, beautiful elf.  She is so blonde and tall and light skinned and has a totally slammin’ elf bod.  Also she is good at things. Ellen, let’s go on a date.

This dude showed up with Starter sneakers. I didn’t even know these things existed.

The Vidiot found this awesome pin with ice cream on it on the way to the party. I haven’t been served a heaping mound of ice cream in a dish like that in years.

“What’s that?  You like my ice cream button?  Tee hee hee!” The Vidiot has the personality of a Japanese tween girl.

Dita Von Teese was there serving drinks. I never forgave her for breaking Marilyn Manson’s heart.

This hot piece of chicken was there showing off her love of worms. There’s a movie in this, I think.  ”Must Love Worms.”

These guys. I like these guys.

This guy, I like him too. It’s Benjamin Marra, maker of so many good comics including Gangsta Rap Posse and Night Business. He also did the album art for Lil B recently and some other rap album covers. Dude rules and is not a pussy, which is refreshing in the comics world.

It was cool to find out that he was also in this magazine. He’s getting hit up by every rapper to do the art for their damn mixtapes. If you want Marra to do your art then you have to be prepared to pay.

Ryan’s got a huge fucking tongue. She’s like Gene Simmons but way creepier.

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Acclaim Magazine is a lifestyle publication based out of Melbourne Australia. It’s 21st issue focuses on “Friends”, no not the 90′s sitcom but rather the magazines extended family of talented artists, musicians, photographers and brands. Мишка is proud to be a part of their extended family and as such will be celebrating the issues release in style at the our 350 Broadway shop on August 27th.

For the event Acclaim has produced a limited number of issue #21 featuring Ellen Stagg’s photo of Ryan Keely and Justine Joli frolicking in the sun, both wearing our Playhouse Painters Caps. Ellen and the girls will also be in attendance to sign these limited edition copies that day and there will of course be free refrshmnets and good tunes on the speaker.

Put on your boner shorts and don’t miss out on this opportunity to be in the presence of beauty!

Friday August 27th, 7pm-10pm
Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

J/M/Z to Marcy Ave
G to Broadway
L to Lorimer

If there’s one topic I can wax a prolix opus on is how massive of a boner Madonna gave me between 1990-1994. Horny Culture has turned their backs on on Ms. Ciccone-Penn-Richie-Ciccone in the last ten years or so, and with due cause. The yoga and Kabbalah flavored water have left her looking a bit, hard these days.

And while I can still detect the semblance of what once jettisoned me to Surewood Forest in Madge, my boner’s tolerance level requires much more pervy and too often shameful criteria in the modern age. But I’ll tell you what’s what. Madonna had a run that pwned any and ALL of today’s famous bald vag promoters with their mediocre BJ skills on half ass sex tapes!

Understand this, there were a few core and strategic happenings which magnetized my meat toward the Immaculate One. Events that would lead to skipping junior high in favor of epic jerk marathons at home in perfect solitude.

Though those nudie pics of her in the 80′s with her glorious hairpie and pits were cool (a mere 3.5 in jerkability factor), it was only the ripple before a mass tidal wave that would eclipse any of the girls around me in 8th grade, even the ones who let me feel them up during class. Let’s divert for a moment to the prologue of this scummy saga…

Sure, I enjoyed the Blonde Ambition era with the David Fincher helmed Express Yourself video where she prowls like a minx and lays chained on a bed, nekkid and overexposed. Of course I fast forwarded Truth or Dare to her Boob flash! Those were cool and all, but when she performed Vogue during the MTV Music Awards (video above muthafuckas!) as a Ribald Victorian Boudoir Beauty, that was that.

Right here was the tipping point where I caught the fever. Look at those glamour boys grabbing on her titties and shit! I still remember having to take an emergency jerk break after seeing this on TV. This was only the sign of things to cum (yuck, that kinda grossed me out too).

Fucking YouTube! Click here to watch this vid without that dumb banner

I was SO jealous of Wayne in this MTV promo. Seriously, I was.

Then the “Justify My Love” video dropped which to me stands as the fucking sexiest song of all time, even over Sade’s “Ordinary Love.” Holy moly, look at her go! Just all about making out and being a tramp… I don’t know about you, but that’s how this creep likes it!

I’d give you two thumbs up on directing this, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, but only one hand is available at the moment!!

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Sometimes I think we forget just how long Insane Clown Posse and the Dark Carnival have been around and stirring controversy. A Bloglin reader forwarded me this old comic from a 1997 issue of Spin for us… which by the way if you didn’t know, A whole back catalog of Spin magazine are now viewable for free on Google Book. But I digress…

The Family’s always been vilified, long before their innocent pondering about “magnets” to the chaos of this year’s Gathering. I forgot that just a few months after it’s release the Great Milekno was recalled by Hollywood Records (AKA Disney) for inappropriate content. So why don’t you take 10 minutes and enjoy this rather critical (and sometimes scathing) comic by Mike Rubin and Mark Dancey from 13 years ago examining the who, what and whys of ICP’s popularity.

Thanks to Ryan O’Conner for the heads up and trip down memory lane.

Now this right here is some perfect late night reading… Vice sat down for a ridiculously long and comprehensive interview with Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant of Anarcho Punk legends, Crass. If you’re either a former Crust Punk or are for whatever reason scratching your head going “What’s a Crass?” this is an absolute must read for both of you… especially the latter.

If you pick up some crap book about the history of punk rock, chances are there will be about 90 pages dedicated to Joe Strummer’s jackets but only two sentences about Crass. This is despite them selling millions of records, singlehandedly creating the DIY punk blueprint, and maintaining their hard-line libertarian and anarchy principles even as they reach their mid-60s today.

A lot of you reading this will be aware of their logo and the fact that they were a punk band, but not a lot of people know their actual story. Because it’s so inspirational and so “anti-music” (in the sense that it was a total revolt against the established music industry of the time) we feel that everybody with even a passing interest in punk rock should hear it.

And so we interviewed founding members Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant for a brief history of the group and to procure their ideas surrounding this issue’s theme. During the talks between myself and Penny that preceded this interview I discovered that the unthinkable has happened and that Crass, the most anti-authoritarian, anarchy-endorsing free spirits in the history of punk music, are on the verge of going to Crown Court to ask lawyers and judges to intervene in a huge row over some remastered CDs.

The interview covers the long history, members and ideology behind what have become one of the most influential Punk bands ever. A history that includes seemingly going against their own ideals and lawyering up for a court battle over the control of their back catalog of music. Really interesting stuff and a great read.

I know Crass’ logo is one of the most recognizable punk icons out there and become just as ubiquitous symbol for whatever “Punk” is supposed to mean these days as the Crimson Ghost. But how many of you are really familiar with what that icon and the band truly symbolized and fought for? No excuses, if you own a Crass tee, pin, patch or record I want you to read this… And remember, this is coming from a bunch of dudes who tried (and succeeded) in selling a $45 Anarcho New Era.

Read Anarchy and Peace, Litigated: A Brief History of the Idealistic Punk Icons Crass, and Why in 2010 They Are Going to Court Over Some Total Bullshit by Vice Magazine

This awesome 3-page spread can be seen in the current issue of Ollie Magazine. Ollie had Takuya Sakamoto photograph some of our closest and most talented friends in some of our Fall 2010 collection to show the many facets of Мишка.

Up first is the raucous rock side of Мишка with a band you’ll all soon be familiar with, The Rassle. The Rassle also happen to feature our own apparel designer/production manager Erik Ratensperger. Next up we get wild in the streets of Brooklyn with Nathan Gogal, Stoned Tone and Willis Johnson all D.A.R.T. sponsored riders. Finally  we get dark and dancy with The Captain and AC Slater of NY’s premier party starters Trouble and Bass.

I love shit like this. Some dude (Tony Stamolis, a pretty big deal) figured out how to:

a) take photos of ladies, most of the time naked.
b) eat a bunch of tacos.
c) put it all together and get it made as an ‘art book’: T&T&A.
d) have it not be porn. It’s either a super-racy food book, or a really tame nudie book.

Awesome. And the best part?

Far as I can tell, it’s completely devoid of any sort of high-minded manifesto, mission statement, or preface. Just some girls with they thangs out. And tacos. Period. I was at the doctor’s office the other day and there were a bunch of big framed photos of, like, leaves and snow and leaves in the snow, and I was fine with it. But then—THEN!—I saw another frame—as big as the actual images—that contained the artist’s mission statement. There was a line in there that more or less went like ‘I explore texture. I find texture in almost everything…’

No fucking Duh. What—in the world—would you NOT find texture in? Are you from inside of Asteroids? Maybe then. But only then.

Anyway. This is not about that. It’s about showing you photos of a book of photos of girls and food. Probably NSFW, which is why there are more photos after the jump. If you get caught, just say it’s art.

T&T&A is available now via Sump books. I ordered mine and it came signed, which I thought was a pretty neat bonus.

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I  just peeped the cover for the new issue of Front Magazine which features a lovely topless girl in a Keep Watch fitted. We have a pretty long history of mixing naked ladies with our clothing, so this gets a big thumbs up from us!

Those of you unfamiliar with Front, just think of them as a UK version of Maxim, Blender, AP and Playboy all mixed into one. There are articles on bands, interviews, fashion editorials, gadget profiles and a lot of topless girls in their underwear… Like Holly for example, who has “set minds to blown!”  I haven’t seen the issue so i don’t know if Holly is sporting that cap in more pics, but we’ll be sure to post them for you when we see ‘em.

Update: The cover girl has been identified as Holly Peers. Thank you to Toshiba Guts… now go crazy boys.

I like that over in England Streetwear sites/blogs have classy names like The Daily Street. Now doesn’t that sound like one fine and respectable publication?A really trustworthy news source for the low down on everything Street(wear). Picture it…

“Ay chap did you here about those diamond encrusted Diamond Co. New Balances!?”

“You’re pulling my leg there!”

“No way bloke, I read it in The Daily Street.”

“Ohhhh”

See? C-L-A-S-S-Y. You can’t do that with say SlamxHype or something.

Anyway… While I stayed in NY to invoke thee witch, Greg was recently over in England for some meetings and our big sample sale. While out there he linked up with Grizzlee of The Daily Street for an informal sit down interview over a “cool beverage.” I’m just going to go ahead and pretend that it was actually over a spot of tea and suggest you do the same while you read the whole interview.

P.S. My name is Mikhail not Michael…pronounced the same though. ;)

Yesterday Sports Illustrated posted their 25 most hated sport teams of all time. No surprise, but the cover boys for the current issue of SI made the list before their first tip-off. The list is full of obvious selections like the ’88-’89 Pistons to head scratchers like the ’86 Mets (who the hell hates the ’86 Mets?). Jimmy Johnson also gets the distinction of coaching two of the most hated teams in sports… both in the top 5 nonetheless!

I’m pretty shocked that the only Yankee team on here is from the 70s, that there’s no Kobe Lakers and no LT era Giants team. It’s a pretty good piece of fluff that nothing else will rekindle some memories and open a few debates for those of us who grew up with some of these teams. You can leave your most hated teams of all time in the comments section if you’s like. Mine? The ’93-’94 Rangers and ’99-00 Flyers. Those pricks!