Punk vocalist Alice Bag has brought her late 70’s/early 80’s L.A. scrapbook to Flickr, and it’s full of fierce women and gorgeous style: shots of the Bags in performance, the fabulously New Romantic post-punk pix, and an adorable pre-punk set where a young Patricia Morrison can be glimpsed in 70’s hair and a Rocky Horror t-shirt.

A Bethesda establishment called the Evil Olive piqued the interest of residents of a nearby nursing home. Turns out it’s a biker bar, and the residents, aged 65 through 97, got decked out for a warmly-received visit. “Kaplan, who is wheelchair bound and admittedly extremely overweight, was disappointed when she first arrived at the club because there were stairs by the entrance. ‘I said, We’re not going to make it,’ Kaplan said. ‘Then before I knew it a group of bikers came and grabbed my wheelchair. All I saw was my head being tipped back and my feet were up in the air and they had me in the club.’” It was too cold to hop on the bikes, but plans for a spring ride are in the works. (via Jezebel)

The NYT reports on the “YouDesign” trend of crowdsourced catalogs.

So how’s Danny Elfman’s work on the new Alice in Wonderland soundtrack? Clips from all 24 tracks can be streamed here. (from the Playlist, via Pajiba)

The Canadian women’s hockey team celebrated their gold medal win with stogies, booze, and honking the horn on the ice surfacing machine. They were then forced to apologize for celebrating the hell out of a once-in-a-lifetime-if-you’re-very-very-lucky moment. The International Olympic Committee says it’s going to investigate whether their celebratory behavior was “harmful to the image of the players and ice hockey in general.” Because gods forbid you act like an ecstatic human being when you achieve something momentous. What bullshit. (Pandagon)

And speaking of the Olympics, TLo have taken a break from their reality show recapping to rip on the ice-skating costumes. Here’s the men, here’s the women, here’s the couples, all howlingly awful.

Usefulness: Paperback Swap is an online book exchange where you upload the ISBN’s of stuff you don’t want anymore, someone snags it from you, and you accumulate points to snag stuff from other people. I just meant to clean out my closet and grab a couple Clive Barkers when I first signed up a couple years ago – I’ve since gotten about 60 books, including Re/Search’s Angry Women, a hardback of Patrick Nagel’s artwork, and some additions to my Storm Constantine collection. You can also sign up for notifications when somebody posts a book you want, so it’s a good place to store a literary wishlist. As always, it’s best to search on what you’re looking for first to see if it’s a good fit, but there’s a lot more there than just remainder-marked bestsellers.

Haute or Not alert: behold this utter dadafest of a runway from Isabel Mastache. (TLo)

Behind the Suit and Tie is an upcoming documentary probing the business side of metal. In the trailer, Dave Ellefson of Megadeth really, really doesn’t like his music being pirated, but if making my living involved putting up with Dave Mustaine on a regular basis, my hide would be pretty chapped, too. (MetalSucks)

Making music boosts the brain’s language skills, as shown in a recent study where stroke victims who lost the ability to speak were able to regain their voices by singing words first before saying them. (National Geographic)

The marketing blitz is underway for the new Alice in Wonderland movie, and predictably, the people in charge think that falling down the rabbit hole means landing in the mall. Spare yourself and check out Haute Macabre’s Etsy picks instead. (Jezebel)

Also from Jezebel: an aspiring rockstar has recently discovered his birth father is Charles Manson…and wants his own reality show.

SteffMetal has a bit of a “fashion for metalheads” series going, in which she’s thus far broken down the finer style points of power metal and black metal. Her latest is on death metal, which ruminates upon hentai, nurse-inspired clothing, and the ubiquitousness of the longsleever. (SteffMetal)

This fetish typeface – it’s called “Bound” – has done a rather graceful job of incorporating nipple rings and butt plugs into the alphabet. (Typography, via Savage Love)

BABY CLOUDED LEOPARD CUBS!!!!! That is all. (ZooBorns)

Compare The Moshpit invites you to pick the fiercest crowd battle from between two photos, and includes a “most hardcore of all time” page of winners. I really hope that guy with 139 wins is at a GWAR show. (via MetalSucks)

Also from MetalSucks: this John Varvatos Isn’t Just An Asshole – He’s a Lying Asshole post about what happened to the CBGB’s space is a few years old, but I do so enjoy it when pompous, overblown press releases get a well-deserved evisceration. (And here’s the Yelp review.)

Just to make sure everyone here is good and informed with this utterly crucial document: the Heavy Metal Band Names Flow Chart. “Pointless misspellings,” haha. (Comic vs. Audience)

This is not to be confused with the Metal Geneology Flow Chart from Headbanger’s Journey. (Wikipedia)

Get well soon, MCA!!!! (Brooklyn Vegan)

And now, a gallery of the world’s worst lingerie designs, which includes taxidermy and golf balls. I totally take issue with #2, though – this looks like it came from Nylonz, whom we’ve listed because they carry 12-strap garter belts. (InventorSpot, via Jezebel)

So the gods of comedy flashed us a blindingly bright smile last week as we scored tickets not just to the Daily Show, but Colbert as well! Above, a shot of the wall outside Colbert’s studio, where they’ve left the loving graffiti unpainted – and while both shows were fun to attend, it epitomized why I’d put up with waiting in line all over again for Colbert. The Colbert Report has been extremely fan-centric from the get-go, letting the audience drive a lot of the content. And while Jon Stewart tended to disappear within his entourage when the cameras took a commercial break, Stephen gave us literally every second of his presence while he was onstage. He flung bracelets into the crowd, he flirted with the makeup girl, he did a little dance before filming Formidable Opponent, it was like he knew how happy we were to be there seeing him live, and for all his frothing persona, there’s a vibe of gratitude underneath it all. Here’s The Colbert Report’s Yelp listing which has all the dirt on going to the show, and here’s the one for The Daily Show.

We also spent Super Bowl Sunday ordering pizza, giving each other spa treatments, and watching the second season of Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. And while Tim is excellent at fit and proportion and fashion problem-solving, there wasn’t a whole lot of spice in the “after” outfits. Which got us thinking, we would LOVE to see a makeover show hosted by Simon Doonan. And Cintra Wilson! But for now, we’ll take RuPaul’s Drag Races. Speaking of which, if you’ve been wondering what Nina Flowers has been up to: recording a new single, “Loca,” which really should be experienced in the context of the full YouTube performance, lace bellbottoms and flirting with the delirious crowd and fistfuls of cash and all.

Weird Al Yankovic is taking over a TV channel for real this time – he’s signed a production deal with Cartoon Network to broadcast anything he wants on the channel. Hopefully more of the “news” schtick he did in the 80’s, because intercutting himself into an interview with George Harrison and then VJing They Might Be Giants is one of my most-missed VHS tapes. (Screen Junkies, via Pajiba)

NOOOOOOOO! Sarah Haskins is no longer doing Target: Women. Yay for new horizons (one of which is working on a screenplay for Amy Poehler), but I will miss the fearless navigation of bridal diets, romancing one’s cleaning products, and the strange phenomenon of having to wear a gray hoodie while eating yogurt. Here’s the archive. (Jezebel)

Kristen Stewart got some very interesting advice from Joan Jett on how to play guitar in the upcoming Runaways movie. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Patti Smith. (Agent Bedhead, via Pajiba)

Mainstreaming feminist punk didn’t really do us any favors, and I concur. Alanis Morrisette is one such “girl-power” figment of the 90’s that hopefully will NOT make a comeback this decade. (Pandagon)

The makers of Paradise Lost are filming a third documentary on the West Memphis Three, which should be verrrrrry interesting in light of recent DNA testing and John Mark Byers now thinking they’re innocent. It’s insane that this is still going on nearly 20 years later. (wm3 blog)

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The Kirkbride Buildings were historic insane asylums promoting the Moral Treatment as a method of therapy. They’re now grandiose and decaying and possibly spelunkable, if they haven’t been refitted to other purposes. Says reader Ariel, who sent us the link, “at least one has been converted to a hotel. Imagine bringing your Ouija board.”

A fashion shoot from D-Magazine features models styled in black metal makeup. The standard pensive-while-topless expression goes to a whole new level of ridiculous with the addition of corpsepaint. The “RAAAAHHH!” shots are pretty silly, too. (Art Brut(e), via Metal Inquisition, who also have some choice things to say about American Apparel reaching into the same dark bag of tricks.)

Remember the bathroom graffiti pouncing on a condom PSA from a couple weeks ago? (Like you could forget!) Digging around in the original post it came from turned up these incredible French AIDS-prevention ads that turn genitalia into fantasy worlds. I want a poster of the girl one. (Copyranter, via Savage Love)

Lip Service is writing a book about their first 25 years of existence, and want your pictures for their chapter on Fans and Addicts. They are in particular looking for landmark moments in your life, so now’s the time to send in those wedding pics. (Lip Service)

NYU’s Fales Library has a Riot Grrrl archive, which has just grown a bit after the addition of Kathleen Hanna’s papers. NYU’s newsletter says “the Riot Grrrl Collection will support scholarship in feminism, punk activism, queer theory, music history, and more.” Now that the 10’s are officially underway, I’m so ready for this part of the 90’s to come back. (The New Yorker, via Feministing.)

Rumor has it that Tim Burton is planning on a retelling of Sleeping Beauty…from Maleficent’s point of view. (Ain’t It Cool, via Jezebel.)

Last, but not least, Lifetime Movie or Megadeth Song? (Mental Floss, via Decibel.)