Or at least a Friday morning trip to the beach, a chance to escape to the salty breeze, hot sand between your toes, the smell of tide and cocoa butter, sounds of wind, seagulls, and splashing swimmers.
Not feeling it? Me neither.
Because really, the summer’s not the summer and a beach isn’t a beach without doilies. Doilies, and weirdly symmetrical shell displays, precision-glued so that each shell has ample room to feel isolated and objectified. Here, starfish, front and center. Your friends will be placed just out of reach. No-one will come to your aid.
I love minimal effort art projects, and this is a perfect example of the genre.
What does this hold? Towels would get all mildewy, umbrellas would probably knock the darn thing over, and dapper canes would just look totally out of place. It’s just about durable and robust enough to hold used tissues. Or crumpled-up drafts of your unwritten novel, Murder at the Beach, which despite a promising title has neither murder nor a beach, nor anything other than the line, “Our eyes met over the snow-globe bin at a cheap Padre Island tourist shop. The shop was cheap, the snow globes”
Maybe it’s a cannon. A used towel cannon. Just add blackpowder and you can launch a wet towel 500 feet, unless the towel gets the powder too wet. When it works, it scares hell out of the seagulls and the sound is really kind of unforgettable. When it doesn’t work, well, use what’s left of the towel to make another damned towelcan.
Thrift Town on Manchacha and Stassney, Austin
7 Responses to “A taste of summer”
It’s a bit hard to tell the size, but as an Aussie who has seen Many a Twee bathroom accessory in her travels, I would suggest this is a toilet-roll cover.
You would have a stack of new toilet rolls on a ‘post’ thingy, and then, because you think THEY look nasty, you cover them with This to make them look…ummm… ‘nice’… ??
Perhaps…perhaps in Australia you have VERY LARGE toilet paper rolls :) This was built out of the double-sized coffee cans, it was very close to waist-high! But a good theory. It might make a nice little bathroom table…
Perhaps, but you’d have to have VERY LARGE toilet paper rolls in Australia. This was two of those jumbo-large cans of coffee stuck together somehow–it was almost waist-high!
I have been busy and missed your posts, but I had a wonderful and scary morning going through the ones I didn’t see. Thank you for a great morning of pictures and your wonderful narration.
You make me wish I lived closer to thrift stores.
At first sight I thought it was a scratching post for cats. Maybe it still is?
Okay… So this is OFFICIALLY a toilet paper holder. The TP stacks inside. I lived with my Grandma growing up and I had to endure decorations like this. Except her thing was roses… So imagine that gross thing but with roses glued on it.
I’m still in therapy. ;)
Aww! Brandy, you take away the magic :) Srsly, though, I didn’t know they made toilet paper holders in the 10-gallon capacity :)