The Lynnertic

Party Barbie colette at Régine, Paris, and Shara’s engagement at avec in Chicago

The Barbie Doll’s 50th birthday is being celebrated around the world!

Party Barbie colette

March 12th, 2009, at The Régine.

Come celebrate Barbie’s 50th anniversary at Régine this Thursday, March 12th, starting at 10pm, with Lady Bunny, Mister Rabbit, a live by Steed Lord, a warm-up by Olympia Le Tana & a dance performance by Dangerkat. The House of Dangerkat is a Canadian-based collective of arts professionals synthesizing fashion and styling with music and dance, further enhanced by video, photography and design. The House’s laissez-faire style of performance art has wowed the fashion, dance and music communities with their progressive approach to art making and rule breaking. Check out performances from Paris, New York and Canada at Dangerkat.

A very special thanks for providing champagne to Nicolas Feuillatte, for vodka to Girl By Necker and for lemonade by Lorina.

My friend Jason Williscroft saved me from getting too wrapped up in the trappings of this non-holiday by sending me the video of his evening at avec in Chicago last weekend, where he proposed to his girlfriend Shara with a self-described Barbie Diamond.** Congratulations to Jason and Shara! May you have a long and happy life together!

Lynner and Boydstun: I Love My Dog

Happy Penny Day!

Penny’s a good dog. She’s been with us for three years today, 1/11/2009.

Click to play I Love My Dog

Doug and Bill Boydstun wrote and recorded I Love My Dog in 1982, a year before Invisible Zoo was formed. It is unreleased. In 2006 I Love My Dog was added to the playlist of listener-supported Radio Free Phoenix, the best free-form radio station we can reach. In honor of Penny Day I was given permission to post the song to this site. Enjoy!

I Love My Dog
By Doug Lynner and Bill Boydstun

Me, I’m just a good old boy
Goin’ through life alone
Thinkin’ about the kind of joy
That a guy like me never knows
One more highway
One more bar
When I get tired I’ll go sleep in my car
And I’ll be dreamin’ about the the only thing….
That I’ve ever had to love

Things have been pretty hard
Livin in a whiskey bar
Life never got too far
Sittin in my Chevy car
One more highway
One more jar
Of old corn liquor in the
Trunk of my car
but I’m not worried
About the shape that I’m in,

Cause I know that I’ve been loved.

I love my dog
(brilliantly appropriate campy howling)
I love my dog
(brilliantly appropriate campy howling)
He likes to be close to me
(bach)
He likes to hang around
(bach)
And you know ’cause he’s there
(bach)
I’ll never be down,
Oh no,
I love my dog.

I can remember when
I advertised for a friend
Hopin’ I could find someone
But I couldn’t never get me none
One more highway
one more beer
one more roadhouse
one more tear
but I won’t worry,
I’ll be doing fine,

Cause I know that I’ve been loved.

I love my dog
(brilliantly appropriate campy howling)
I love my dog
(brilliantly appropriate campy howling)
He likes to be close to me
(bach)
He likes to hang around
(bach)
And you know ’cause he’s there
(bach)
I’ll never be down,
Oh no,
I love my dog.

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