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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some solo shots and some laaarge group shots of the bands from the #GlitterGuts pirtrait booth on the red carpet of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture's RAÍCES GALA at Rockwell on the River

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots and lots of solo shots of goths from the #GlitterGuts portrait booth at Nocturna at the Metro last month

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kinda proud of my people (cringe Elder Millennials who refuse to grow up) for not making a big deal about the TINY TOONS and ANIMANIACS reboots being... not-great. We didn't gas them up and give them undue praise, OR claim they ruined our childhood. Just quietly let them die

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Someone in a nostalgic Chicago music group on fb posted a calendar for a punk club in the neighborhood I grew up in from the month I was born. I think that's neat.

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Accidentally took a good picture of myself on the couch before the Southside Mexican oi! show.

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RAMONA SLICK 🍒 @ramonaslick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Now greenlight the whole series, cowards!

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Debate between the housemates... Two of the bands on this bill describe themselves as "SE MICHIGAN HC". Do we think that means...? • Hamtramck • Saugatuck • Detroit-area-but-specifically-the-suburbs-not-the-city-proper

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just passed a lovely older woman enjoying a teeny tiny iced coffee, a small box of chocolates, and a regular sized cigarette by herself on the steps of the museum. Chicago can be Paris if you want it to be.

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Saw one movie and went to one show on my day off, people are calling me the coolest, most-going-out person in history.

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just learned about this movie where a punk rock Gina Gershon is seduced by a punk rock Marc Blucas. I am unsettled but intrigued. It's called Prey for Rock N Roll and it's streaming on criterion this month CC @bufferingcast.bsky.social @slayerfestx98.bsky.social

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm ignoring these ads for psychedelic therapy because I'm not about to let anyone who advertises with lazy AI to monkey with my brain chemistry BUT.... what if they really are making psychedelic tonkatsu ramen with candyflipping pork belly slices AND I'M MISSING OUT???

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Holy crap, slightly too young to remember "Bow Biters" shoelace locks, but I just saw them on a vintage page, and all of these would've gone SO HARD during my all-over-print t-shirts, keffiyeh, and hiding-my-hairline-under-old-man-hats at the club era. Slap em right on my Nike SB Dunks!

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I thought I disliked Wilco but I just heard a song from the Marina Towers album I kinda liked so I guess I used to be a young man and now I'm an old one, it happened so suddenly!

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Trying to decipher the tattoo on the guy in front of me at the gym. It kinda looks like Predator with an Invader Zim body so I googled "Predator with an Invader Zim body" and it's 100% this.

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An all-time great villain song by Tim Curry as the Hexxus in Fern Gully youtu.be/pVzYS3Ga_j8?...

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Ferngully Toxic Love HQ

YouTube video by Razor Candy

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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is a bad week. Here’s an amazing scene of Tim Curry in Freakazoid:

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Losing two Doctors Frank N Furter in a year? I fucken hate it here, man

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pee Wee Herman & Dolly Parton singing a duet? Here ya go...

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wtf this is up there with Bowie and Prince for me. RIP to one of the best to ever do it 🦋

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just learned that Beck's grandpa Al Hansen was a member of the Fluxus collective with John Cage and Yoko Ono. He also managed the Screamers Whose logo was drawn by Gary Panter, who made art for the Pee-Wee Herman show with his wife Nicole Panter, who also managed the Germs

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A few #GlitterGuts portrait booth photos from last weekend's Nocturna at the Metro

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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lol @ @scaryladysarah.bsky.social putting out a NO-DRAKE GUARANTEE for Nocturna tomorrow

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Some #GlitterGuts portraits from the SNEAKER BALL afterparty during WNBA all-star weekend

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I found out my pharmacist is a house dj on the side, which is much less exciting than finding out that my dj is a pharmacist on the side. One will break the rules for you and the other absolutely will NOT.

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Woman next to me at the airport bar is drinking an old fashioned and reading Vonnegut in a black turtleneck; she has grey hair w/ an even greyer silver streak running through like a supervillain. A VIBE I feel like a little kid in short pants + propeller beanie next to her. No sophistication at all

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Weegee and Warhol, 1967

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If I was a CNN anchor, I'd keep a supply of outrageous costume hats (viking helmet, pimp fedora, Green Bay Packers cheese wedge, etc) nearby, so I could don them anytime a guest wanted to be taken seriously in a cowboy hat. "What, this isn't what we're doing now?"

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Was listening to Riistetyt and thinking about where I first heard them, and this was kind of a bonkers stacked lineup 🤪 21 years ago at Chicago Fest 05

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I went to Goon Island and everybody said they knew you

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Lewd pic of someone I've never seen popped on my timeline, so I clicked their profile to see a couple more but the most recent post was a memorial for Jennifer Finch and that's how I learned that she died. The digital future is weird. RIP to one of the best.

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I fell off a stage in a sober way* today *switched my brain in to bullet-time slow motion mode like The Matrix and twisted my body to protect both my cameras as I hit the ground

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

was watching a documentary, they were talking about Luther Vandross. and one lady drawled out 'he was up on that stage. singin' like an angel, sweatin' like a hog.' and i've thought those words in that cadence every time i've sweated ever since

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I bet if I started saying that premade food at 1960s Automats was healthier than most made-to-order food at restaurants today, a lot of people would believe me. I haven't done ANY research and I never experienced it firsthand but I bet I could convince lots of folks purely off vibes.

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#xspoilers daaaamn, ep 2 of X-Men 97 had a whole ship full of easter egg characters I was excited to see, but none surprised me as much as this diva

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Debbie Harry in '81 // Debbie Harry at 81 Happy birthday to one of my first and forever crushes! 💕

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I was shooting #GlitterGuts photos of the Black Monument Ensemble at @gpconservatory.bsky.social when the rain outside started to become rain inside and it was really beautiful and chaotic.

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sarah @oo0oo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

that looking up-from-down pose was really a proto-suicide girl vibe, huh. Wait for my dissertation on pinup poses through the decades

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So like [???] years ago, @oo0oo.bsky.social and I bonded over remembering this photo of Carla Bozulich that we both thought was hot when we were 14. Could not successfully Google it so I haven't seen it in years UNTIL TODAY. Thank you for your service, photographer Darcy Hemley!

Carla Bozulich in front of a sink wearing dishwashing gloves with a wtf expression on her face

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Someone put on the "big beat" radio station at work. I was enjoying the Apollo 440 cover of "Don't Fear the Reaper" because it reminded me of my dad, but coworker cut it angrily and abruptly because it reminded her of hers.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thinking about how my grandmother has done the crossword puzzle every day for decades so she's probably had to internalize what EMO is and who DUA Lipa and Brian ENO are cuz they're such common clues

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Watching the porn awards episode of Party Down and my spouse said, "i dont think the woman next to Stormy is really in porn" so I looked her up. 90 acting credits in mainstream movies, primarily playing strippers. 16 CREDITS AS AN ANIMAL WRANGLER, SPECIFICALLY SPIDERS. People are so interesting

Stormy Daniels and Diana Terranova in Party Down

Diana Terranova with a big spider on her face, from her instagram

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Some #GlitterGuts portraits from Nocturna's 38th anniversary at the Metro

3x3 grid of cool goths posing in front of a leopard print backdrop

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

So curious about this giant painting in my neighbor's window. Image search was no help, anyone familiar with it?

A joyful, mostly naked, fat lady being held aloft by a muscle-y man with hand squeezing her ass and her thigh resting on his head

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eric lab rat @ericlabrat.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Was shooting a Pride event for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and saw this classic Walter Peyton/Sir George Solti poster in a back room that instantly transported me back to childhood. Pretty sure I saw this in multiple principals' and pediatricians' offices for YEARS

Walter Peyton in a tux and George Solti in a football jersey with the caption "We both know a winning score."

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