A post on the super-nifty blog Neato Coolville got to one of my weak spots: The Banana Splits. And it reminded me of some other rare collectible Banana Splits stuff I had seen.

Here’s Neato Coolville’s Window Clings of Fleegle and Bingo:

Banana Splits Window Clings

And here’s something really wild that I’ve never seen before. The Banana Splits done up as the band KISS. I have no idea who made it or where it came from. This was on an ebay auction that another (at-the-moment-defunct) blog found.

Banana Splits dressed as the supergroup KISS.

The Waffle Whiffer wishes everyone a Happy St. Patrick’s Day with this nifty Uncle O’Grimacey plastic bag puppet. As a kid I was told never to play with plastic bags … but puppets were AOK! Thanks Waffle Whiffer! Happy St. Patrick’s day everybody!

I love old-timey characters like the dog in this advertising image below; it’s got a strange quality in its eyes unlike modern cartoons. The label on the can is a bonus. If I could still get this, I would eat it every day.

[Flickr, via A Sampler of Things]

Lustlab ad, by Ellen Forney

Lustlab is the kinky personals section for Seattle’s alternative weekly, The Stranger. Ellen Forney is a primo Seattle-based comic & illustration artist, who’s been a fixture on The Stranger’s pages for many years now.

Each week, Ellen takes one of the actual ads running in Lustlab, and turns it into a single-panel comic. She gets really inventive with it — an ad looking for a spanking is in the shape of a handprint, an ad talking about a rather delicate piercing is depicted graphically using the words of the text, and this ad takes the “daddy” and “third wheel” refrerence where it logically needs to go: Ed “Big Daddy” Roth territory. You can see all of Ellen’s Lustlab ads here. Borderline NSFW (more for the text than the images). There’s also a book of her Lustlab ads planned for 2008 by Fantagraphics. [via Robot Action Boy]

[UPDATE: Since this got picked up by BoingBoing, Ellen Forney's web server has seized up; a kind soul has uploaded her Lustlab ads onto Flickr. Besure to check them out on her website once it's back up again, though, because she shares a lot of insight into how she created each ad.]

Pondering how someone came to the conclusion to have this tattooed on themselves has caused my brain to seize up. [via Booberry Alarmclock]

This amazing video for Scissor Sisters’ “She’s My Man” was done all in one take — the camera didn’t move, and the speed of the film was not altered. The movement and effects in the video are made possible by black-clad kuroko stagehands. The video was directed by Nagi Noda, who was also responsible for that disturbing exercising poodles video.

There’s a slightly higher-quality version at the Scissor Sisters website, but it’s mired in Flash, so I can’t link directly to it. Bah.

Lionel Richie rendered in lush velvet,
from Walsh on Flickr

I want to share something beautiful with you. I want to share Lionel Richie, in black velvet.

A friend of mine has one of those wonderful homes where it takes you two hours to even notice the plastic Jesus with a cat’s head, because there is just so. much. weird.stuff. She has it all very tastefully displayed, though, right down to the neatly organized wall of Marwal heads.

But her bathroom is where it really all comes together. Lionel Richie is there right over the throne, rendered in lush velvet, casting a loving and watchful eye as you go about your business. From the other side of the room, a red velvet-flocked mini-bust of Mao Tse Tung glowers at the two of you. He’s clearly jealous that Lionel Richie got top billing.

The velvet Lionel Richie masterpiece pictured here isn’t hers, but is one I found on Flickr, posted by Walsh. Small world — in his comment on this picture, he links to an article that makes reference to there being a cache somewhere of Velvet Lionels, and the article appears to have been written by a friend of mine. Lionel, you work in such mysterious ways!