Every so often I get an email from someone who has searched for me on the web because their treasured Wally mug, plate or bowl has broken and they need a replacement. The most recent request came from Mark in Washington DC and the mug that broke was an old design that I vaguely remembered… something about smoking, nihilism and angst. For some reason I couldn’t recall all the details of this one and a search through my filing cabinet couldn’t produce a photo of the mystery design. Fortunately, Mark sent me a pic of the broken mug and a replacement is forthcoming in this week’s kiln load. But the search for the “lost” Wally adventure got me thinking that I really should get my archival act together. So in the interest of posterity, I’m posting below a whole bunch of ancient Wally adventures. Folk art curators of the future take note… all of these are out there somewhere!<\/p>\n
“Wally descending a staircase” (a la Marcel Duchamp) Every so often I get an email from someone who has searched for me on the web because their treasured Wally mug, plate or bowl has broken and they need a replacement. The most recent request came from Mark in … Continue reading
\nWally gets an NEA grant to wrap himself in an American flag and sit in a vat of lemon jello
\nHere it is! The highly controversial Mapplethorpe portrait of Wally
\nWally channels Andy (Warhol) and hits the party circuit
\nWally still can’t figure out the lyrics to “LA Woman”
\nWally and Axl Rose do a killer cover version of “When I’m Sixty-Four”
\nWally goes to a punk rock nightclub
\nWally gets front row seats to a Morrisey concert and becomes celibate
\nWally gets a B-52 to sing backup on his new album and has his biggest commercial success ever
\nNew age superstar, “Walli” opens at a Yanni concert with his shimmering cover version of “Holiday in Cambodia”
\nWally, the world-class charades master, plays a round where he must non-verbally communicate the titles of old Brian Eno songs
\nWally convinces the Jerry Garcia band to do an eighteen minute cover version of “The six Finger Jingle” WTF! This is the most ridiculous and esoteric joke I’ve ever done! – Tom<\/span><\/span>
\nWally and Mr. Rogers <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>become vampires and do a late-night infomercial<\/span><\/span>
\nMost dogs simply eat grass…. Wally watches “Thirtysomething”<\/span><\/span>
\nAgent Cooper notices a curious, distinct pattern in the donut scenes in”Twin Peaks”<\/span><\/span>
\nWally goes to Hell and listens to the same Barney tape forever<\/span><\/span>
\nWally casts Lorena Bobbitt in the leading role in “Edwina Scissorhands”<\/span><\/span>
\nWally stars in the low-budget sci-fi epic, “The Two-Headed Dog from Pluto”<\/span><\/span>
\nWally, the bravest dog on Earth, operates a leaf blower at Sean and Madonna’s house at six in the morning<\/span><\/span>
\nWally takes The Pope to a rave<\/span><\/span>
\nWally attains cult status<\/span><\/span>
\nA Wally cult member goes crazy<\/span><\/span>
\nWally’s friends get worries when he becomes a complete Susan Powter fanatic<\/span><\/span>
\nWally humps a watermelon<\/span><\/span>
\nWally gets his watermelon a sexy new outfit<\/span><\/span>
\nWally gets kinky… menage a trois with watermelon<\/span><\/span>
\nWally’s adventures with watermelons create a litter of little wallymelons<\/span><\/span>
\nWally lands his total dream job: product durability tester at Aacme Love Dolls, Inc.<\/span><\/span>
\nWally goes straight to the tabloids with shocking polaroids of hmself and Bill Clinton<\/span><\/span>
\nHillary Rodham Clinton gives Wally the job of enforcing her new health care program<\/span><\/span>
\nWally and Tipper Gore star in the environmentally correct remake of “Easy Rider”<\/span><\/span>
\nWally and Dan Quayle take the stealth bomber to Vegas<\/span><\/span>
\nWally and Dan Quayle fantasize about having a bloodless coup d’etat here in The United States<\/span><\/span>
\nWally bumps into Ted Kennedy and Pee Wee Herman at the all-night liquor store, porno shop and dog biscuit emporium<\/span><\/span>
\nWally and Al Gore go to a Marky Mark lookalike contest<\/span><\/span>
\nWally pulls quite a prank on Japanese Candid Camera<\/span><\/span>
\nWally deciphers Al Gores book and finds himself living in an old “Twilight Zone” episode<\/span><\/span>
\nWally’s mother reveals that Bob Packwood is Wally’s father<\/span><\/span>
\nWally and Godzilla get a great advertising gig for the Mothra Twins<\/span><\/span>
\nWally gets Tonya Harding a job advertising “The Club”<\/span><\/span>
\nWally’s gay ski shop in Aspen goes broke and he is forced to burn his Barbar Steisand records for warmth<\/span><\/span>
\nWally and Mother Teresa blow off World Youth Day and hit the outlet stores in Silverthorne<\/span><\/span>
\nWally finds a miracle buffalo pie at the base of the Mother Cabrini Shrine…. is it the divine image of Elvis or Jesus?<\/span><\/span>
\nWally gets his very own cold war surplus MX missile<\/span><\/span>
\nWally and Joe Camel summon the spirit of Sigmund Freud<\/span><\/span>
\nWally gets Rush Limbaugh a date with a feminazi<\/span><\/span>
\nIn a shameless ploy for media attention, Wally agrees to a conjugal visit with Amy Fisher<\/span><\/span>
\nWally’s bogus environmental organization raises enough money to sponsor a spotted owl driver in the Indy 500<\/span><\/span>
\nNike and The Grateful Dead hire Wally and Ken Kesey to promote their new shoe
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