{"id":1225,"date":"2014-03-09T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:53:49","slug":"joe-oesterle-and-count-smokula-present-at-the-lava-sunday-salon-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/03\/09\/joe-oesterle-and-count-smokula-present-at-the-lava-sunday-salon-february-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Oesterle and Count Smokula present at the LAVA Sunday Salon, February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">On the last Sunday of each month , LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather in downtown Los Angeles (noon-2pm), for a loosely structured conversational Salon featuring short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">At the&nbsp;<a style=\"font-size: 11.818181991577148px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/salon214\" target=\"_blank\">February 2014<\/a>&nbsp;Salon,&nbsp;back by popular demand, we welcomed LAVA Visionary <a href=\"http:\/\/joeartistwriter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Oesterle<\/a>, author of <\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bubble1-20\/detail\/1402754604\" target=\"_blank\">Weird Hollywood<\/a><\/em> and the classics <em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bubble1-20\/detail\/1402766831\" target=\"_blank\">Weird California<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bubble1-20\/detail\/1402739400\" target=\"_blank\">Weird Las Vegas<\/a><\/em>. Joe read some spooky stories from his books and share anecdotes from his weird road travels, and signed copies of <em>Weird Hollywood<\/em>. The multi-talented Joe Oesterle is a former Senior Editor of <em>National Lampoon<\/em>, a visual artist, musician, animator and curator of the strange and marvelous. At the Salon, Joe was joined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countsmokula.com\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Count Smokula<\/a>, a 496-year-old accordion-playing vampire from the vaguely Eastern-European nation of Smokesylvania. A mainstay in the Los Angeles Underground scene, the Count has been described as a cross between Bela Lugosi and Jackie Mason. The Count delighted us with several numbers on his accordion and some gems of home-spun philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gm8o4chLea0?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gm8o4chLea0?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1225\" data-postid=\"1225\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1225 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last Sunday of each month , LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather in downtown Los Angeles (noon-2pm), for a loosely structured conversational Salon featuring short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another. At the&nbsp;February 2014&nbsp;Salon,&nbsp;back by popular demand, we welcomed LAVA Visionary Joe Oesterle, author of Weird Hollywood and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}