Technically they’re not cherubim. Cherubim are awesome angelic beast-things Putti are horrible pink lumps with wings. And the stuff they get up to around Valentine’s Day, it’s…just weird. like reenacting “The Drowning of Ophelia” with a horrible pedophilia/seafood vibe. What’s this? Some sort of beautiful woman/girl/boy/larva? Either way, s/he/it’s torpid and I’m armed. I could […]
Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still… Just a little kiss for Valentine’s day. Because I love you. You know who you are. And you should be afraid. So…very…afraid. I’d be curious to know if this was the photographer’s girlfriend. Or boyfriend, those could be drag lips. It’s really hard to tell […]
As I was taking these pictures, it was the day before my 38th birthday and I was strongly considering my own inevitable decline into roundness. However, this flock of pigs had me beat. Also, a little glazed white pig with hearts in its eyes is pretty much guaranteed cute, although I’m not sure what message […]
I had a hard time with a title for this one. “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” came immediately to mind, but that seems too darkly malevolent for something that was, clearly, a senseless kissing tragedy, but a sad, random fluke. Still, her date seems happy. Once the glow wears off of something that was, quite literally, […]
I love you, you know I do. But I’ve got to leave a little room in my heart for Jesus. Jesus, and a few roses, maybe a daisy. And a clock, with kind of a butterfly instead of a sweep second hand So, basically, there really ISN’T room in my heart for you, but there […]
And now, a post-Valentine’s gift brought to you by the angel of Mixed Media Art. Wear it in good health. What is the appropriate response to this? Should one say “thank you”? Or even “Thank you?” Lift up one’s top and give the giver a show, in a general mardi gras celebration of love and […]
Valentine’s day, like Santa Claus with extreme flatulence, has blessedly come and blessedly gone. In its wake, the Thrift Stores, their shelves already heavy with other people’s stale romance, try to shift the the unshiftable: used broken Valentines gifts. What better way to say “I love you, like $.35 worth” than the gift of dime-store […]
So, this prematurely exciting! So, thrift store blogging is highly competitive and cutthroat. The field’s nightmarishly crowded with like SIX blogs and…well, it’s rough. So, naturally when I saw a big old jug of FREE BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION samples, they HAD to come home with me. Initial exploration of the giant plastic heart was interrupted […]