Wendy O Williams collage.

I love Seattle, but on Labor Day Weekend, I mostly don’t want to be in this city. If you’re also loathing your zip code for the upcoming weekend, get to Las Vegas. You can see Kiss, Judas Priest and Bob Dylan all in the mythical land of no clocks, this weekend. Cherrybomb’s bag is already packed. Who am I kidding? Nobody packs a bag when you’re going to Vegas. But don’t worry, I won’t leave yo all alone under the dark Seattle sky. If you are going to Bumbershoot, my list of what you can’t miss is below.

Which makes this week’s GTFO loaded. Even more loaded than the author is (usually). Which is verrra loaded.

And while I’m speaking of such melancholy things, Cherrybomb will be taking a few days off this weekend to focus on drinking to an excess, while pissing off my neighbours by playing the new Motorhead record. When I’m not at Bumbershoot, drinking to excess.  Okay – I lied there, for a minute. I’m totally going to Bumbershoot. Just like you.

Now…Get The Fuck Out.

Friday, August 29th:

Mos Generator can fly.

Mos Generator
Hell’s Kitchen

The Whore Moans
Sunset Tavern

Silver Jews
Beachland Ballroom (Cleveland, OH)
Silver Jews will be at Neumo’s on October 2nd.

Dramarama, Anything, Anything. For Stacey.

Dramarama
House of Blues (Anaheim, California)

KISS
Palms Casino (Las Vegas)

Does it Offend You? Yeah
Bowery Ballroom (New York)

Y&T, Mean Streak, 1983.

Y&T
Camel Rock Ballroom (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Saturday, August 30th:

Clinton Fearon
Nectar Lounge

Mexican UFO at The Comet. Photo by Tara Sloan.

Mexican UFO
King Cobra
The amazing Fiia McGann, (of Orbiter and Goodness) heads up Mexican UFO.

Queensryche
House of Blues (New Orleans)

Bumbershoot:

Fisher Green
12:30 - Staxx Brothers
4:00 – Dorando and Nino Moschella

Samsung Mainstage:
Starting at 1:00 – Neko Case, 2:45 – Lucinda Williams, 7:30 – Band of Horses, 9:15 – Beck

EMP
9:30 – Kinski

Sunday: August 31st:

Flash Gordon, 1941.

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
NW Film Forum
NWFF will show a different classic movie every Sunday afternoon as part of their Secret Matinee Club. Cheezy movies are the ultimate hangover remedy. Not that I know anything about hangovers. I stay drunk all the time to avoid them. Guess what? It works.

The Atomic Punks: A Tribute To Early Van Halen
Romano’s Concert Lounge (Riverside, CA)

Judas Priest (Solo Show)
Palms Casino (Las Vegas)

Bumbershoot:

Samsung Mainstage:
7:45 – The Black Keys
9:15 – Stone Temple Pilots

Mural Starbucks Stage:
5:00 – Dale Watson

Rockstar Stage:
4:15 – Howlin’ Rain
7:45 – Sons and Daughters

Fisher Green:
7:45 – The Saturday Knights

EMP:
8:00 – The Hands

Looking Ahead:

Carmine Appice. For LP.

Carmine Appice: SLAMM!
El Corazon
It’s not what you think. At all. This is SLAMM!.

Metal Female Voices Fest Five:
Belgium
October 18th – 19th, Metal Female Voices Five will commence. It’s hard to imagine a more awesome event. Girlschool, Epica and Kittie all with a full-throttle female in front are some of the 20+ bands performing at MFVF 5th Annual throw-down. While you’re in Belgium, drop by Cafe’ Halford to see the life-size replica of Rob Halford of Judas Priest.

Paul Stanley, Self Portrait.

Paul Stanley of Kiss will be showing off his artistic side at the Wentworth Galleries in Atlanta. Stanley will appear live at the Wentworth at Phipps Plaza (I can guarantee that Paul will also appear at the Versace store – if it’s still there, as I remember) and Perimeter Mall both Friday, September 19th and Saturday, September 20th. Admission is free. Want to see more of Paul Stanley’s art? Okay, here.

Now Get The Fuck Out Already…

The Hard Corps, 1991. Scratchin’ by Jam Master J.

More digging around in my basement last night. It’s like a rock and roll treasure chest! Anyway, when I found a couple of the promo’s from the New York band, The Hard Corps , I threw on 1991’s “Bring Down The House” and after 17 years, it still sounded good. Earlier that same year, Anthrax and Public Enemy collaborated and recorded a new version of PE’s Bring the Noise followed by a successful Anthrax/Enemy tour. A year later, Ice T put out his one of my favorite records of 1992, the infamous Body Count. Body Count featured the song Cop Killer. Soundgarden covered Cop Killer, sans controversy, later that year at Lollapalooza. Soundgarden later recorded Cop Killer on 1992’s Coverin’.

Nick Cave, Paddy Boehm.

German artist Paddy Boehm loves drawing people. Famous people. For the background and outlines of the face, Boehm uses acrylic paint. Boehm then uses pencil to create his exaggerated caricatures.

Lemmy Kilmister, Paddy Boehm.

Boehm has been drawing for most of his 35 years. At 15, he and his brother created a comic called “Zeitlupe” (or slow-motion). Among others, Boehm credits French comic artist Jean Tabary and German charicture master, Sebastian Kruger as two of his primary influences. If you’re in or near the West Coast, Kruger just announced that he will be leading two artist workshops, complete with live demonstrations, in California in April, 2009. The focus of the workshops will be portraiture and working with acrylics.

Iggy Pop, Paddy Boehm.

The Kruger influence is evident in Boehm’s portrait of Iggy Pop, above.

Alice Cooper, Paddy Boehm.

Paddy Boehm studied graphic design and has worked to perfect his impressive caricature skills for nearly 15 years. You can see more of Boehm’s caricature’s in his online gallery. Boehm lives and works in Germany.

John Rich. How anyone could look so stupid with a Flying V? Oh wait. Does that poor Flying V have the words “yee-haw” on it? Nevermind…

Self proclaimed “young person” John Rich is at it again. Tonight, on Larry King, Rich Bitch said he is one of the “young people” for John McCain. I’m confused. If John Rich is young, Cherrybomb is a barefoot and pregnant Confederate.

If you hope to be able to do basic math someday, unlike John Rich, please vote the right way.

Clinton delivered tonight. Yes how, yes way…

Madness. Mad people. The world is full of them. Anyway, as we are speaking of mad people, I just finished watching Hillary Clinton say “No how, No Way, NO MCCAIN. Perhaps Obama’s nemesis, Just Say No Deal’s Clintaloonie #1 Christi Adkins (see the vid above) might be having a moment of clarity. Or maybe not. All I hear when Christi Adkins is talking is fart noises:

On June 11, Adkins was on FOX News and had this to say:

It’s a stinky day in politics when Clinton supporters like Sean Hannity. And keep in mind at my Web site, Clinton4McCain.com, I looked at the character of the candidates. And quite frankly, John McCain is a maverick. He’s a fighter. He’s scrappy. And I like that. I like fighters. Hillary Clinton is a fighter. John McCain is not so far right. He is not. He is right there in the middle with most of America. And quite frankly, Barack Obama is way far out there.

And now, somewhere in America, Christi Adkins is crying into her favorite pantsuit from Kohl’s whispering, “It was supposed to last forever girl”. If you didn’t watch the footage tonight, wait 10 minutes. I’m sure it’s on your TV or Al Gore’s internet right about…NOW.

Kiss Vans, Koming Soon…

Usually Cherrybomb does not dig on this kind of stuff but the new Kiss “Dressed to Kill” Vans are pretty fucking sweet. Don’t ‘cha think? The Kiss DTK Vans join Iron Maiden, The Germs and Johnny Ramone as the latest in Van’s ever expanding “Band” themed shoes.

Motorizer, Motorhead’s 24th studio album is out today.

Motorizer is finally here. So far my favorite cut is Rock Out. Although, you’d be hard pressed to find anything less than 100% Motorhead on Motorizer.

Danny Harvey, Lemmy and Slim Jim are The Head Cat.

Motorhead plays El Paso tonight, sans Judas Priest and Testament, before heading to San Bernardino and a series of shows around California at the end of August through Labor Day weekend. Lemmy and his Rockabilly friends, The Head Cat, hit Seattle for yet another show at El Corazon on October 9th.

Metal God Rob Halford of Judas Priest turns 57 today.

The Cherrybomb Birthday Brawl is back after a short Summer hiatus. Sorry about that, but these bits can be tough to bang out. And sometimes it’s really hard to decide who to put into my virtual ring of death. Originally, I was going to put Jeff Tweedy up against Elvis Costello (who also share today’s birthday). But I just couldn’t pass up a chance to take a few more jabs at Gene Simmons. And you can’t blame me for that. It’s like shooting fish with Kiss makeup in a barrel.

The Halford vs. Simmons Birthday Brawl is on…

Dr. Love aka Gene Simmons and his legendary tongue turns 59 today.

Better Song That Is Probably About Sex:

Simmons: Here’s a hint, Calling Dr. Love is not a song about a hot cardiologist. Although I’m sure Simmons knows one.

So if you please get on your knees
There are no bills, there are no fees
Baby, I know what your problem is
The first step of the cure is a kiss

Rob Halford, Heavy Metal Meat Purveyor.

Halford: I present to you for consideration the lyrics to Grinder:

Grinder
Looking for meat
Grinder
Wants you to eat

Advantage: Simmons. I still call Dr. Love for all my medical advice.

Gene Simmons might be bald.

Not So Shocking “Secret” That Everyone Already Knew:

Simmons: For years, Gene Simmons has worn a wig. Simmons was recently photographed by the paps driving around sans wig, which seemed to surprise some people. These are the very same people who acted surprised when they found out Rob Halford was gay. What? You didn’t…are you kidding me? Have you ever seen the video for Heading out to the Highway?

Rob Halford, Creem Magazine, 1984.

Halford: In 1998, Halford eloquently outed himself during an interview with MTV. Halford said “most people know that I’ve been a gay man all of my life.” Halford went on to say “the only people who don’t know I’m gay are the same people who think Gene Simmons’ still has his own hair.” Okay, Halford really didn’t say that second thing but I’m sure he probably thought it.

Advantage: Halford. The man is a hero.

Weirder Homage:

Halford Statue outside of Cafe’ Halford in Berlin.

Halford: Cafe’ Halford in Berlin erected an eight-foot statue of Rob Halford in the entrance to the pub.

Simmons: Colorado Classic Rock radio station, KRFX, “The Fox” tricked out a vintage VW Beetle complete with a life-size replica of Simmons’ tongue.

Advantage: Halford. Tongue car scares me.

Rob Halford and his Hog.

Crazier Near Death Stage Accident:

Halford: On stage, Halford was known for riding his Hog, er, Harley Davidson motorcycle out on stage. I’ve seen him do it and it’s about the coolest fucking thing ever. Except one time when Halford crashed into the drum riser, fell off his bike, busted his nose and then lost consciousness. After medical treatment, Halford returned to the stage and did the show. Take that Nickelback.

Gene Simmons lights own hair on fire. This explains the wig.

Simmons: At a performance in New York in 1974, Simmon’s hair caught on fire in the midst of his famous fire-breathing act.

Advantage: Halford. Too tough to kill, too Metal to die.

Well, no surprise here that this Cherrybomb Birthday Brawl goes to one of the greatest things to come out of England, Rob Halford. Honestly, poor Chiam never really had a chance.

David Ball, from Libertine.

Ball’s upcoming show, Libertine, opened on Thursday, August 21st at Babylon Falling in San Fransisco.  Ball says Libertine addresses our dependency on human relationships and their outcome, as well as broader aspects of social conflict. Damn, that’s pretty heady.

David Ball lives and works in San Fransisco. You can check out more of Ball’s work here.

Silver Jews, Sleeping is the Only Love. I could not agree more…

…and since we are speaking of such things as love, I have to confess that Silver Jews “Suffering Jukebox” is my favorite song of the moment. God DAMN that song is so pretty. SJ’s David Berman channels Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt when it comes to the vocals on Jukebox. And GOD DAMN, that is a good thing. Anyway, for sure Cherrybomb knows plenty about suffering jukeboxes. I spent some time on the East Coast and hit the beach bar for a week straight and was forced to listen to all kinds of musical fuckery, like Toby Keith and The Eagles. I kid you not, the same drunk douche would play Hotel California at the same time, every night. That song makes me want to smash things. Like jukeboxes. And that’s just wrong.

Corneal tattoo, brow and * tattoo.

Tattooing the cornea. The words are even hard to type without shuddering. Tattooing the eye is done by injecting a syringe full of ink directly, into the cornea. Looking for a tattoo artist that will actually ink your cornea? Good luck.

Blue cornea tattoo behind blue eyes.

Medical doctors routinely perform corneal tattooing on patients when the cornea has become damaged after some sort of trauma, like a burn or laceration. But a doctor won’t tattoo your cornea for purely cosmetic reasons. Enter the tattoo artist.

Eyeball Bling…

Eyeball tattooing just not your thing? How about an eyeball implant? Robert K. Maloney, director of Maloney Vision Institute in Los Angeles is the first ophthalmologist in America to perform a cosmetic jewelry implant into the eye.

To give his customers a twinkle in their eye, Maloney implants a 0.13-inch wide piece of jewelry into the conjunctiva — the mucus membrane lining the front of the eyeball.

“The eye is covered by a thin layer of skin and we make a small incision in that skin and slip the jewel underneath,” says Maloney. “It sits on top of the eyeball itself.”

The 15-minute procedure costs $3,900 and is performed under local anesthetic.

Contact Lens Bling.

Bling for your contact lens? I must have rubbed my eyes 50 times while watching Artist Erick Larenbeek vid on his contact lens bling.

Eyelid piercing. Never blink again…

Even eyelids aren’t even safe from the needle anymore. Eyelid piercing is quickly becoming the next hot spot on your body to mod. Read this article that describes Seattlite and tattoo artist Nick Anzalole’s first eyelid piercing experience. Nick also invented something called the Nick Piercing.

Anyway, Summer’s finally coming to a close and that means Bumbershoot and Burning Man are almost here. This also means that September is right around the corner which brings Nick Cave, The Surf Coasters, and The 21st Annual Shake the Shack Rockabilly Ball to Seattle. Summer might be over, but life in Seattle is still pretty sweet.

Jessie B., Albert King, wood, cloth, plaster, metal and a real Flying V guitar.

Jessie B. (who’s full name is Jessie Buddell) says that her art is inspired by her deep love of music, especially Classic Rock and the Blues. Maybe that’s why she used a real guitar to create her portrait of Albert King (above). Buddell also has a thing for the Lizzard King, meaning she likes to paint him. A lot.

Jessie B. Slim Harpo, in 3-D.

Jessie’s Slim Harpo (above) can be yours for $700. In a few more years, I think it’s going to be hard to acquire an original piece by Jessie for $700.

Jessie B., Johnny Cash, cabinet door, acrylic paint, leather and real guitar strap.

Jessie B. approach at Folk Art is refreshing, yet very traditional. Especially when it comes to Jessie’s Johnny Cash piece above. You can see Jessie’s work up close at the Primitive Kool Gallery in San Diego.

Jessie B., Jimi Hendrix, 3-D with real Fender guitar and embellishments.

Jessie B. lives and works in San Diego and is now accepting commissions. Find out more about that here.

Okay. GTFO is gonna be kind of short this week. I’m sick (not hungover, there’s a difference) and honestly, I am wishing death upon myself at the moment. So I guess it’s still sort of like being hungover in a way as I seem to remember praying for death a couple days ago after finding out how many G&T’s is too many G&T’s. Anyway, true to my rummy form, I’m sure I’ll recover just in time for Friday night. If I can do it, and Dino can do it, so can you.

Friday, August 22nd:

Knut Bell and Dr. H. are never seen in the same place at the same time.

Knut Bell & The Blue Collars
The Little Red Hen
Knut & his Blue Collars also play the Hen on Saturday, August 23rd.

Duff McKagen turned 44 in May, 2008. Get in the ring indeed…

Duff McKagen’s Loaded (with The Jet City Fix)
Hell’s Kitchen
This is night one of Duff’s two night stint at Hell’s Kitchen. Loaded is set to release a new EP, Wasted Heart, in September followed by a tour that will stop at the Viper Room in LA on September 2nd before heading to Ireland, London and Milan.

Saturday, August 23rd:

Carrie Akre of Goodness.

Goodness & Ms. Led (!)
Mural Amphitheater
FREE
Another FREE early show at the Mural. Doors/Beer Garden at 5:00, show starts at 6:00.

El Vez.

El Vez & Hellbound Cats
Key Club (Los Angeles)

Looking Ahead:

Witchcraft is from Sweden, where it is apparently still 1970.

Witchcraft is back in Seattle again on September 4th at El Corazon. If you’ve never seen Witchcraft, well, I could say all kinds of things right now. But that would just be rude. Be there. It’ll be just like the 70’s. All the parts you remember anyway.

Mission of Burma, Boston punks never grow old. Just ask Cherrybomb…

On October 1st Mission of Fucking Burma will be at Neumo’s. Mission of Fucking Burma!

Now Get The Fuck Out Already…

Rock Stars have always wanted to parlay their success into the Theater. It’s true. Think Meatloaf doing Hair and Rocky Horror or Paul Stanley playing the legendary Phantom of the Opera. Most recently, John Pettibone of Seattle Metal band Himsa, decided to depart the band after 10 years to play the role of Tony in West Side Story. Of course, not everyone can make on Broadway. Enter the walk-on TV appearance. After all, bright lights are bright lights. Right?

Joey Ramone tries, unsuccessfully, to smash his guitar on The Drew Carey Show. For LP.

In this clip from The Drew Carey Show, Joey Ramone tries out for Drew’s band. It’s only a 35 second clip but it’s fucking hilarious. The episode also featured appearances by Matthew Sweet, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielson, and Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine, among others. All vying for the guitar hero spot in Drew’s new band. Of course, The Drew Carey Show was no stranger to good music. The theme was done by Seattle’s POT USA. Even Motorhead made an appearance on the show in 2001 to shake Drew out of bed with an altered version of “Stage Fright”.

Steven Tyler on Two and a Half Men.

In an episode of a show I’ve never seen called Two and a Half Men, Steven Tyler .rents the house next to the star of the show, porn-king Charlie Sheen. Sheen ends up getting his ass kicked by Tyler after he complains about Tyler’s harmonica playing. Man, I’d complain about Steven Tyler’s harmonica playing if I thought he’d actually touch my ass. I think.

Wendy O Williams as “Big Mama” on MacGyver. Episode, “Harry’s Will” from 1990.

Wendy O. first appeared as “Big Mama” on the premier episode of MacGyver. Skip ahead to 5:13 on this clip to see Wendy O. reprise her role of Big Mama and say her only line, “Bonk ‘Em”. It’s totally worth it.

Anthrax on Married With Children, “My Dinner With Anthrax”, Season Six.

This classic clip features the band Anthrax from Season Six of one of the best shows Fox ever canceled (after 11 years), Married With Children. I love it when the Bundy’s dikey neighbor, Marcy, asks the band if they know “Day Dream Believer” by The Monkees. Of course they do. Everyone loves the Monkees. Even Anthrax.

I’ll be posting more clips of rock stars turned TV stars, like DLR from the Soprano’s and Frank Zappa on The Monkees. So stay tuned…

Trailer for the new Guy Ritchie flick, RocknRolla.

Guy Ritchie says that the main character in his new flick, RocknRolla is based on Babyshambles front man, Pete Doherty:

In the film, a painting falls into the hands of rock star Johnny Story, the shambolic musician inspired by Dopey. He’s hiding out in a crack den, having been declared dead, and finds himself caught in the middle of a battle between the Russian mob, the established London underworld and its rising tough guys.

Is the painting in RocknRolla painted in crackie blood? Is a London flat full of crack-addled kittens involved in this movie?  No? That’s okay. I can see Pete Doherty’s blood whenever I want. Except I don’t really want to.

My favorite kind of Jason Statham, wet and shirtless.

Like Quentin Tarantino, Ritchie is notorious for re-casting actors he has used in previous films. RocknRolla being the exception to this rule. Jason Statham (who was in Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch) was originally cast in RocknRolla, but had to bow out because he was already mid-stream with five other movies during late 2007 & 2008.

RocknRolla opens on October 31, 2008.

Tattoo by Tim Kern. And, yeah, that’s Jeffrey Dahmer.

Holy Hell. Where has tattoo artist Tim Kern been all my satanic, tattooed life? I mean, when I logged onto his Myspace Alice was playing (the Ballad of Dwight Fry no less), but I digress. Tim Kern is one hell of a tattoo artist. Kern works out of his own shop, Tribulation Tattoo, in Brooklyn, NY.

Tim Kern, Mark Ryden adaptation from Ryden’s seminal “Blood”.

Looking at Kern’s handiwork, it can be no surprise that he’s not taking on any new clients any time soon. Sadly, Cherrybomb was out of town when Kern dropped by Seattle for the Seattle Tattoo Expo earlier this month.

Tim Kern, Johnny Cash, ink on skin.

If you’re in London already or planning on being there in September, check out Kern out at the London Tattoo Expo running, 9/26-9/28. I’m talking to you Jane.

Tim Kern’s Tattooed Paper Dolls.

Kern also paints and creates with other mediums including photography. I wish I had paper dolls like the ones Kern thought up (above) when I was a kid. Who am I kidding, I wanna play with that doll right now.

Thanks to Tim Kern’s Myspace for the images.

John Rich, Beyond the Valley of the Douche…

…and it’s not just because John Rich wrote the song “Raising McCain” about John McCain. In a recent CMT article, Rich Bitch had this to say about the late, Johnny Cash:

I’m sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around.

Anyways, Rich’s repugnant attempt to channel Johnny Cash’s support for John McCain from beyond the grave, pissed off Cash’s daughter, Roseanne Cash. So much so that Cash took to her blog to speak out against Rich’s comments about her father:

It is appalling to me that people still want to invoke my father’s name, five years after his death, to ascribe beliefs, ideals, values and loyalties to him that cannot possibly be determined and to try to further their own agendas by doing so. Even I would not presume to say publicly what I ‘know’ he thought or felt. This is especially dangerous in the case of political affiliation. It is unfair and presumptuous to use him to bolster any platform.

Craig Stephens, Nick Cave.

…when it comes to the art of creating Art in Rock ‘n’ Roll’s image. I am in love with Stephens’ image of Nick Cave, complete with skeleton hands, clutching his ever-present ciggy. Stephens teaches art at Chana High in California. How lucky are those kids? Wait. Don’t answer that question yet. Stephens is also a big fan of Zombies. So much so that he has started doing Zombie Portraits of his students. Stephens will even make you a Zombie for a mere $25 bucks. Craig Stephens might be the coolest Art teacher ever.

Craig Stephens, Lou Reed. For Mr. Incredible.

When he’s not teaching Art or turning his students into Zombies, Stephens also manages to crank out a pretty boss comic called Working Stiff. Stephens says that creating a comic was a childhood dream of his.

Craig Stephens, Iggy Pop. For more Iggy Art click here.

Although it’s hard to imagine that Stephens has any, in his spare time, he paints a picture a day and posts them on his blog, Daily Painting.

Glen Campbell, Dean Martin, Dom Deluise in The Doctor.

In 1965, a young Glen Campbell paid a visit to the brilliantly funny Dean Martin Variety Show. In the vid above, Glen plays a cowboy with an arrow stuck in his gut in need of a doctor. Unfortunately, the only doctor in town is a drunk Dean Martin. I got completely dizzy watching Dino trying to make his way to the bar in the opening of this clip. I guess it really does takes a drunk to play a drunk. Maybe Cherrybomb has a future in acting after all.

Anyways, a few years later in 1969, Glen Campbell got his own Variety Show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. And, in the true spirit of any Variety Show, Campbell got to play sing-along with some performers like Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Johnny Cash. I would be remiss in not mentioning the time The Monkees visited the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour. This clip with Mike Nesmith and Davey Jones is Variety Show gold.

Glen Campbell released his new cover record today, Meet Glen Campbell and plays the Troubadour in LA tonight. Glen Campbell turned 72 in April. Take that Nickelback…

Rip’n'Roll wants your face on a condom. Don’t you?

Now you can have your face (or band logo or artwork) printed on a condom wrapper. Rip ‘n’ Roll, America’s Condom Superstore, will print your face on a condom wrapper with some text for about $30 bucks for 25 condoms.

Presidential Condoms. I’ll take 50 Clinton’s. Bill Clinton’s, that is.

In other condom news, Condomania just released their Erection, er, Election Protection line of condoms. The Democratic Sampler includes a JFK condom while the Republican Sampler features a Nixon jimmy-hat. Condomania also carries a line of art-inspired condoms that include images from Seattle artist Peter Bagge.