Spank Rock and Johnny Siera The Mufuckin’ Death Set are joining Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in doing their own spoof on David Bowie and Bing Crosby’s classic clip of “Little Drummer Boy.” Catch both along with Ninjasonik at the U Street Music Hall in Washington D.C. on December 22nd and the Sonar in Baltimore on December 23rd as part of the Baltimore Bass Connection Xmas party. Guaranteed good time!

And if you already haven’t, do yourself a favor and download The Death Set’s Artificially Sweetened.

That is, up there, just past the image, what we in the business like to call an ‘alliterative gangster’ joke. I realize that it might be a bit too inside for the layperson, which is why I decided to be all-inclusive and sort of take a moment to explain it to you here. Just FYI. Not, of course, to be confused with an ‘alliterative chocolate soccer sleeping’ joke, which would go something like, ahem:

What To Kick The Kit Who Kats Cots

Just for reference.

And, while I’m teaching you something and giving you tips: I can do you one more.

Have you ever found yourself in a bind and at a loss for where to get the craziest, most inessentially awesome gifts for those folks in your life who have everything they could ever want (and more)? Well, assuming that you don’t lose hours of your life per month on Etsy, I can help with that. Go check out Partners & Spade. It’s got what you need, and it’s in NY. I found it—quite organically!—because the dudes at House linked to it for something, and I will do whatever those guys think is cool.

Now, watch, as I ‘buy gifts’ for some of my fellow Bloglin authors and other Mishka family members. My picks will be apt and astonishing, and it will make their alleged recipients sad that I am not a strillionaire, as, were I a strillionaire, it would probably be way easier to just buy them this shit than to imagine a scenario in which I would get it for them and then write about it to thousands of strangers during the high-spike traffic week for the site.

But. It’s the thought that counts. And hey: fellow authors I don’t know personally or haven’t had the requisite amount of direct interaction with in order to make a studied and radical pick? Please don’t be offended at being left off the post. That’s what next year is for. May more images and stuffs on the P&S site. Feel free to click through and see the magic happen in it’s native environment.

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For Twerps! (Greg)

Antique Wooden Figure
Antique Boy Figure with Hat. 25″ tall.

This creeps me out, and I don’t know why. So I immediately thought of Greg. What’s more, it’s huge…I’m wondering if Romy could fit in the weird torso area there and drive it around like Krang. Like Krang.
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For My Pal the Crook (Mikhail)

1948 Skull & Bones Yearbook
Skull & Bones yearbook from 1948. Including signed portrait of George H.W. Bush

This book is more or less a Necronomicon for our generation. Old but new; meaningless but important. It’s my contention that this is the domestic equivalent of ‘the nazi plate’. A freakish memento. A moon rock. So? Give it to the guy who—to me—embodies that sort of shit. Forget coolhunting. This is ghoulhunting. (Not to be confused with schoolhaunting).

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For John Prolly

Axes by Best Made Co.
Best Made Co. axes. Made by hand in NYC, sold exclusively at Partners & Spade. Selection varies by season

I know. I know. There’s a bike available for purchase on this site. And Prolly’s a bike dude. Easy, right? Well. You know what? I’m a ‘toy guy’ in some circles. To some people, that means giving me Mighty Muggs and Twilight action figures. Which is very nice, but, well, I know what I want, and I’ll get it for myself so you don’t roll your eyes at me when you don’t understand the difference between the one I want, and the one I don’t. Prolly is a burly dude who gets his metal on. So of course, I got him a handmade, hand-painted stick of glorious wood with some bitching sharp steel at the end of it. Swing, big boy.

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It’s that time! For the past what now? three, four, maybe even five years? We’ve had our annual Holiday Warehouse Sale and this year will be no different. We’ve set up shop next door to our Brooklyn shop with a grip of stock whose prices have been slashed 50-70% off retail!

There will be jeans, jackets, tees, caps, shirts, sweaters, sweats & fleece…you name the article of clothing and it’ll be there and heavily discounted. But best of all we’ll also have a large assortment of samples from past, current and future seasons along with all sorts of one-offs. If you’ve ever been to one of our warehouse sales you know this is a “can’t miss!” Bring your friends, bring your family and make it a very Мишка Christmas for everyone.

We’ll also be restocking the supply each day, so you never know what you may find!

Мишка Warehouse Sale
352 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY

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

It’s time once again for Krampusnacht! So beware all of you bad children, as the Krampus will show you no mercy!!! We however may talk him out of skinning you alive if you drop some cash on our online store. Just a helpful suggestion as we cool like that with tha Kramp.

P.S. The Krampus, is mad Witch House. Just sayin’

It’s the Holidays, so I thought I’d treat you all to an unholy prayer, meant for incanting at the feet of the all-seeing, all-being Nul. To wit:

Deepest Space
Blackest Night
Wing-ed Death
Crippling Fright.
Stare the Eye:
Hark! The Terror!
Cosmic Evil
Has It’s Bearer.

I figured, between that, and a nice toasty fire, it must be starting to feel a lot like Christmas around your neck of the woods.

No? Still not connecting the dots on the holidays? Still not locked and loaded into excitement?

Well, if that’s the case, maybe The Big Picture can help, with their annual Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. It’s been going a few days already, but if you’re a Space Case, and/or you long for the days of yesteryear when all this around you was liquid, holographic dust, floating through the nothing, fornever, noways, then this is the thing for you.

Don’t know what an Advent calendar is, you say? It will be easy to refresh your memory. That cardboard house with all the little doors that your mom would only let you open one of per day and there’d be a little chocolate santa or snowman or something inside? That was an advent calendar. I think they make ‘em with LEGOS now, too, which is almost as cool as a space calendar. Reckanize. If you’re into this sort of thing, you can hit this page each day for a new image through to Christmas. They’ve also set up a temporary RSS feed for it…pretty rad!

Anyway. this has been a Hateball Holiday Hubble Hullabaloo. Wait a minute. That’s a pretty good title for the post. I think I’m going to change it (was: Bow Down, Beware: We Are, Nowhere). Yeah. the 4h one is a bit better.

Jingle!

How can anyone not love Sweet Sugar Slam? Necksnappa supreme. Now think about Violent J hittin’ that. Crawlin all on top of Sweet Sugar Slam each and every night. But seriously though, is this not the greatest promo for a toy drive ever?This puts Toys For Tots to shame!

It starts off incredible and then just gets progressively more amazing as it goes along. While no, it isn’t “Miracles,” it is still pretty fucking amazing in its own right. And best of all it’s a worthy addition to maintaining Juggalos as the hot shit meme of 2010. Still don’t believe me? Just watch it. Maybe this choice screen cap will entice you…

With the tags fags…with the tags…. That’s how you gotta donate shit. Think about the kids! Don’t give them no used shit!!! Nobody want’s your dirty used shit brah. These kids have it bad enough already.

Wanna help out? Email toydrive@psychopathicrecords.com and seriously, don’t be a dick this time of year.

We got a very late Мишка-O-Lantern tweeted to us yesterday. I know we’re now threes days past Halloween but look at this damn thing! We seriously got some of our best pumpkin craving submissions this year and I think this may be my favorite out of some very stiff competition. Look at the clever use of the Pumpkin stem as Cyco Simon’s horn! Ingenious!

Very huge props to Anthony Abello for this incredible carving, which was totally worth submitting late.

So I came home the other day and was pleasantly surprised to find that my boyfriend had gotten me a pumpkin and a carving kit. Now I don’t know about you but it’s been quite some time since I carved a pumpkin but I was pretty psyched to give it a go. You probably saw the end result on this earlier post but I thought I’d just give a little tutorial in case you wanted to make your own Keep Watch Jack-O-Lantern.

Look I know that Halloween is over but pumpkins are still in season and maybe this will come in handy for you next year?  Anyway, it came out quite well and here is how I went about it… Click any of the images to expand them.

Cut a hole in the top of your pumpkin big enough to fit your had in.

Grab the guts and start pulling them out!

Now with an ice cream scoop or pumpkin kit scoop clean and thin the walls out.

Take your stencil and puncture all your black lines to create image on the pumpkin like so.

Cut all your holes out, and with a knife or razor remove a few layers of the pumpkin skin so that the candle light can shine through any non cut out areas.

And viola! That’s how you make your Keep Watch Pumpkin!!!

I know that Halloween is over now, but we got one last Мишк-O-Lantern submission that was totally worth posting. Ben Wade carved out Lobster Roll puking out his pumpkin guts. Incredible! Hopefully you guys didn’t over do it on either booze or candy yesterday and looking a lot like Lobster Roll over here.

Every year we get some creative Мишка inspired pumpkin creations sent in around this time of year. We posted that excellent Death Add-O-Lantern earlier this week and I thought we’d cap off the holiday with a few more Мишк-O-Lanterns, each featuring one of our various icons. The first is from Jonathan Bergeron of Montreal and it’s an incredible rendition of Cyco Simon based on our recent Rebel8 collaboration. Next we got a Kill With Power inspired Мишк-O-Lantern (like on our Halloween sale flyer) from Jordy4000.  David Kolin Kraning went traditional with a Bear Mop on his and finally our own Gill carved a Keep Watch inspired Мишк-O-Lantern which is currently at our Brooklyn shop.

We hope you guys had a fun and safe weekend and enjoy your last moments of Halloween by either heading out to one last costume party, going into a candy coma or curling up on your coach about to enjoy Walking Dead. Take advantage of our Halloween sale while you still can because at midnight (PST) our prices will go back to normal. Happy Halloween and thanks again to all of you who sent in your pumpkin creations.