The aliens have landed. They’ve come for your swordfish. Finally, the one villain we really need to call Aquaman for. Granted, he’s pretty third-string so far as superheros go, but if weirdly biological gilled orbs are stealing our swordfish, he’s the man I want on the case.  Unless, you know, Green Lantern’s not busy. Because, let’s […]
Once in a great while, something truly wonderful shambles across the shelves and into our hearts. I give to you Madeline. I wonder what happened to her. Maybe they let her out from her tiny cell underneath the staircase, on Halloween, perhaps Boxing Day. But I hope not. She kind of freaks me out. From […]
And I would give it to him. Absolutely, in a heartbeat, if it would keep him as far away from me as possible. The Goodwill “Blue Hanger” outlet store actually isn’t my favorite haunt, because honestly, “broken” isn’t the same as “funny,” and anything that isn’t soft and pliable isn’t going to survive long in […]
Would you pay $20 for a set of small intestines cleverly woven into a very small clown? Yes, please! I really wanted to post this to crow about a completely awesome new crapeterium that opened on Lamar and Manchacha, what a magical wonderland of crazy stuff it was, just next door to Far Out Furnishings. […]
Honestly, the whole world of “high school art” generally just makes me a little bit sad, rarely does it ever actually frighten me. But I think we’re edging there now. Mainly because I’m feeling like this might actually be some strange religious icon–“rapture of the dead pigeon,” or Pigiata. And if that’s the case the […]
I had previously thought that I’d seen every variation on the Thrift Shop Clown. Mutant ceramic clowns, bulbous blown-glass clowns, shell-and-macaroni clowns, acerebrated buffoons. This one was new. Just to begin with, he’s a really nasty little creature. Check out those eyebrows. It’s like he thought adding a Hitler mustache over each eye would enhance […]
Oh the things you find at Goodwill’s “Blue Hanear.” It’s kind of the place where thrift goes to die–vast bins of overstock, fractured ceramics, broken microwaves, and whatever the heck they couldn’t sell roll in, and move out the door for like $1.00 a pound. When a new aisle full of fresh bins open up, […]
There’s nothing quite like the Goodwill “Blue Hanger” outlet store. Except if you imagined Hurricane Katrina washing the entire contents of a “Family Dollar” store down the street, picking up bits of cruft and drek, then depositing it like an alluvial plain into a flea market on “Tax Free Weekend” Saturday, under a full moon. […]
This was threatening customers in the “Woodcraft” aisle of the big Goodwill on 2222. And they were right to feel threatened. It’s hard to say if this is a wood shop project or an alien life form, ready to crawl from the top shelf, scuttle around the corner to the toy section, and disembowel and/or […]
Oh, but we had a special day in late June. Some nice person had unloaded something like a dozen of finger-painted, crazy-coat ceramic masterpieces on the 2222 Goodwill. Each of them was a special flower. But some of them…some of them were just specialer. Take Cujo here. It’s like the titular character from Blue’s Clues […]