Drawing of Henry Rollins by a Japanese student (#23)

She’s Henry Rollins., originally uploaded by nbonzey.

Perhaps this gal should get some pointers from Bernie the next time she goes as Henry Rollins to a costume party.

Rollins is hitting the road again! If you’re subscribed to his mailing list you’ve probably already read about his upcoming tour. Presales tickets are available here. If you purchase presale tickets you’ll go into the running to win an autographed copy of “Provoked”.
From the press release:

“Hoping that the bad times are almost over, I am taking advantage of the current situation to spend the last few nights of the catastrophic Bush administration onstage,” HENRY says of the RECOUNTDOWN tour. “Things will be so different after he’s gone. For me, the new century will have finally arrived. Since I was last in the cities that I will be visiting on this tour, I have been fairly far and wide and have a lot of new stories to tell. I look forward to spending autumn in my favorite country.”

We’re very much looking forward to this tour, because Henry on tour means more photos for the flickr group! Full tour and ticket info is available here.

We thought it was time to sweeten up the site so we got ThemeGrrl to give Hello Henry a quick and slick make over.  Pretty nice, huh? If you subscribe to our feed in a reader, why not come over and take a squiz at our new look! We’ll be tweaking things here and there over the next few days, so if you have any suggestions for the site content wise, now is a good time to send in your suggestions! You can either leave a comment or send a message.

Well, not quite. But one fan took great offense to this Rollins rant against Morrissey we posted a while ago. He/she/it couldn’t help but leave this comment. Talk about taking shit too seriously! I’m thinking a new line of t-shirts is in order, reminiscent of the “Team Jolie” and “Team Aniston” tees that emerged after Brad and Jen broke up.. Go Team!

We’ve posted about this a couple of times before, but it seems the word is yet to reach the 8000 or so folk who are still following the Henry Rollins impostor on Twitter. 8000! Wow, that’s a lot of bullshit detectors in serious need of repair. No wonder Bush got elected.

Today Hello Henry received yet another email about the subject so lets re-cap shall we? A couple of months ago we wrote this post in which we outlined the reasons why “Henry Rollins” on Twitter is a fake. Shortly after one of our readers, Marco, contacted the real Henry Rollins for the official word, which is “I have never been on Twitter ever”.

It seems silly to have to clarify something which seems so obviously fake, I guess my bullshit detector is just a well tuned machine. In the early days of the internet there were celebrity impostors popping up all over the place, one learnt to be skeptical.

So there you have it. If you have a Twitter account, do your civic duty and “twitter” about the Rollins impostor on Twitter, link to Hello Henry and let it be known - Henry Rollins dispatches, he does not twitter!

Dan over at PenguinPunk.net has declared July 3rd Henry Rollins Appreciation Day. OK, so we’ve missed it, but pencil it in for next year! I stumbled across it while checking out the Henry Rollins page on Topix, which Hello Henry reader Sonya has been editing. You can check out the Topix page here.

Drawing of Henry Rollins by a Japanese student (#21)

Drawing of Henry Rollins by a Japanese student (#22)

Henry Rollins and Jello Biafra join Nick Cave’s outfit Grinderman on stage to sing back up vocals on Deanna.