It must  have been very cold when David went after Goliath which would explain the shrinky-dink of the statue.  Lorraine decided to “enhance” David long before spam email promised *me* a bigger Mr. Happy…  My only question is how do the pills know which area of your body to “enhance” or would I end up with really big ears.  Bummer, man…

Speaking of Mr. Happy… “Muscle of Love” by Alice Cooper was released late in 1973 and was the follow album up to “Billion Dollar Babies” which was a huge seller for Alice.  It originally came in a  cardboard sleeve with simple printing on it and stains on the bottom.  Now, this is when album packaging was at it’s peak and superstar groups and artists were really trying to out-do each other with concepts for album covers and art.  There are sooooo many examples, I could fill this website up with images and descriptions.  But one good example is from Alice himself with his “School’s Out” release which when opened looked like an old style school desk that lifted up and let you store your books and pencils and candy inside.  The record itself was wrapped in a pair of pink panties, and for some of us 14 year old boys, it was the first pair we’d ever actually seen or held.  It was like a present from heaven.

Suffice to say, CD versions of these album covers just plain suck and should be banned.  Speaking of being banned, today’s comic title was banned on more than one radio station as the lyrics refer to a young man who gets lucky at the matinee, then finds his Dad’s dirty magazines and ultimately locks himself in the bathroom with his muscle of love.  Alice tried to shake off some of the controversy by adding in the line “my heart is a muscle of love…” but no one was buying it Vincent (Alice’s birth-name).

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