Muahah! I love my work as a TV host, especially when it involves travel and my frightening friends. I’ve compiled my clips from the past two years in a new pop culture and travel hosting reel.

Watch my presenting above and on YouTube. I hope the video makes you smile.

The TV work is going well… As you know, I’m currently hosting and arranging a Huffington Post Travel TV series on Coolhunting Weird Wisconsin.

My Norway TV gig (above) was quite the adventure. The video includes moments on Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods for Travel Channel, Canal + France, Discovery/Fuel, Today Show, NHK, CNN and more.

There’s much more to come, including my NHK Kawaii TV episode, which airs in January.

You can see full clips and info on my bio page. If you’re looking for a host and fixer (arranger), please keep the Pirates in mind – info about my company’s services here.

What’s your favorite moment in my TV host demo reel? Which TV shows or networks would you like to see me on next?

Song of the Day: Ken Laszlo – Tonight (that’s the instrumental playing in my new video)

Shhh… the latest installment of my Huffington Post / AOL travel TV show is out. I snuck into Safe House, a hidden Milwaukee restaurant/bar for spies.

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My disguise consisted of…
Sunglasses: Wanderling Red Queen, gifted from Lumete.
Dress: h.NAOTO, from Closet Child (my favorite Tokyo secondhand store)
Pirate scarf: an old thing
Cut-out boots: Leche by Yosuke, from Marui One Shinjuku’s “shoe heaven” floor
Black floppy sunhat: from Hong Kong

I can’t divulge all the secrets of Milwaukee’s Safe House. Intelligence would have me terminated. Or, at least, the owners would be miffed.

I can tell you it’s a refuge for secret agents, disguised as a restaurant and bar. (Or is it the other way around?) I knew the address (779 North Front Street, Milwaukee Wis.), but struggled to find the hidden alleyway door.

Once I located the entrance, I had to face Miss Moneypenny, who demanded a secret password. No clue. “You’ll have to do what I tell you for entry,” she said. Which, as you can see in the video, was rather embarrassing.

A bookcase slid open, and a passage led to a dining area sectioned internationally (Hong Kong, Eastern Europe etc.) Spy memorabilia covered the walls. Relics included a USSR jail door, a chunk of the Berlin wall and an Austin Powers guitar.

Co-owner Shauna Baldwin, who goes by the title “chief disinformation officer,” tipped me off to gags hidden throughout the restaurant. “Want to know if your boyfriend is playing the field?” she asked. The ladies’ room has a peephole offering a vantage point from which to watch his behavior at the bar.

Even the food has undercover names, such as Ze French Dip and Bond’s Bomb, a chocolate ball with a lit fuse (candle) that I couldn’t blow out. The video shows how my martini was thoroughly shaken, thanks to a retro-futuristic device.

Safe House takes the spy theme to the extreme. Baldwin custom-built a hidden revolving booth exit, and dreamed up a “Her Majesty’s Secret Service” act with a rising torture chair.

But these details are classified. Spies will have to don a disguise, and sneak in to see for themselves.

Thanks to Chief Disinformation Officer Shauna for the tour, to the film crew for their hard work, and to Huffington Post / AOL for the chance to do this travel show.

Please take a moment to view my travel video and article. My cat sends head-bonks for every Like, Share and Tweet! (The short-link is http://huff.to/vEoNrX)

What, what? You haven’t yet seen my travel video for Huffington Post, where I visit the world’s freakiest house? Sunday is perfect day to give it a view!

If Alex Jordan were alive today, he’d be on the TV show “Hoarders”.

The Wisconsin eccentric wasn’t happy with a single tea set. He had to own a dozen. Instead of two creepy dolls, he amassed two hundred. Three medical vials? Try three thousand. You get the picture.

Jordan’s knickknacks fill every inch of House on the Rock (5754 State Road 23, Spring Green WI, (608) 935-3639).

He supposedly built the 200-acre complex to show up Frank Lloyd Wright (who called him an incompetent architect). When Jordan finished the home in 1959, curiosity-seekers convinced him to turn it into a museum.

It’s a dizzying walk through the House’s three sections. This is not a trip for the weak-stomached. A few areas smell like a cross between rotten cheese and wet cat.

I slumped through mole-like passages that opened into monstrous displays. Such as, “Heritage of the Sea,” a 200-foot whale and squid locked in a battle to the death, wrapped by a staircase lined with sailboats. “Music of Yesterday,” coin-operated ghost orchestras that bang out circus songs. “World’s Largest Carousel,” hundreds of fairytale beasts spinning under the glow of chandeliers. “Hallway of Infinity,” a glass walkway jutting out high above a valley, with no supports underneath.

The sensory overload left me (and other visitors) battered. I was in awe of Jordan’s grandiose vision, the magic and wonder he created. At the same time, I wanted this claustrophobic flea-market nightmare to end. Wisconsin’s House on the Rock, you will haunt my dreams.

What’s the strangest museum you’ve ever encountered? Would you set foot in this one? See the wonder of House of the Rock in my Weird Wisconsin video.

And stay tuned for the next Coolhunting episode, where I visit a top secret restaurant/bar in Milwaukee.

PS: Absolute last chance to WIN Miyavi Halloween concert tickets for his What’s My Name tour! Tell your friends and enter here; it’s easy.

I previous reviewed his Neo-Samurai tour in this post.

PPS: I’m featured as subculture guide in the Japan episode of Australia’s travel TV show, Roam. It’s airing on National Geographic Adventure in October and November; here are upcoming showtimes.

Song of the Day: Whatever’s your favorite Miyavi song… if you tell me on Facebook, you can win the ticket giveaway!

Eeek, my new Coolhunting travel video for Huffington Post is out! I’m really proud of this one; please take a second to check it out.

I had a surprisingly lovely time in Wisconsin, and tasted the infamous Culver’s custard.

Lolita cat dress: Innocent World, from Closet Child
Leather tote bag: gifted from GUNAS
Lady sunglasses: gifted from Lumete
Blue shoes: b+ab, from the It / Izzue store in Hong Kong

In this latest installment, I visit the creepy House on the Rock (where Neil Gaiman set his novel, American Gods).

If you missed my previous Huff Post / AOL travel videos, here they are:
† Coolhunting Weird Wisconsin Ep 1: Bondage Beds At The Don Q Inn
† Coolhunting Weird Wisconsin Ep 2: A Trip To Mars (Cheese Castle)

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Thank you for making my work possible! I promise to keep surprising you, with new projects and reports… and I’ve got a few giveaways up my sleeve. Stay tuned.

PS: American Gods and Coraline author Neil Gaiman tweeted the link to my travel show… how amazing is he?

As you know, I’m hosting a new video series for Huffington Post Travel / AOL! I scout out what’s hip and happening — starting with Wisconsin.

Gothic hair accessories: Red and silver choker necklace gifted from Gloomth, black flower clip gifted from Sourpuss. The velvet terrier hair clip is something I’ve had since I was a kid.

For the video intro, I skipped through the streets of Milwaukee.

Black leather bag: gifted from GUNAS
Pirate dress: gifted from Lip Service
Cut-out boots: Leche by Yosuke, from Marui One Shinjuku’s “shoe heaven” floor

Arrr.

In the new episode of my Huffington Post Travel TV show, two guards yell “Halt!” as I try to enter Mars’ Cheese Castle. The tension mounts to an epic stare-down. But in truth, the family members that run the store are the friendliest folk you’ll meet.

Mars’, a family business since 1947, specializes in all things cheesy, from aged cheddar to cheese hats. Last March, the family unveiled the renovated space — 24,000 square feet, including turrets and drawbridge.

Tyson Wehrmeister whisks me around his kingdom, insisting that I try a taste of everything. The video captures my surprise at chicken soup cheese and squeaky curds.

The decorative cheese, shaped and colored like cows, was too cute to eat. For Brewers fans, there were even cheddar baseballs and gloves.

I’ll admit I was hesitant about “chudge,” or chocolate cheese fudge. (It tastes better than it sounds.) And turtle kringle, a Nordic pastry. (Not actually made from turtles, thankfully.)

Pain and Suffering, Submission… these hot sauces would have been a great gift for Sebastiano, no?

With blow-up cows and hand-puppets, the gift shop was the cheesiest part of the castle. Or should I say…wait for it…“udderly ridiculous.”

What makes the castle a gem? The Ventura family, who keep it personal: handing balloons to kids, hanging at the bar, passing around generous samples. Despite the big new location, Mars’ still feels like the warm family shop from 1947. Now that’s cool.

Stay tuned for my next Weird Wisconsin video! Please take a second to watch my Mars Cheese Castle adventure here. Thank you for the Likes, Shares, Tweets, Comments.

What’s the strangest cheese you’ve ever sunk your teeth into?