Now, pretty much half the posts on Thrifthorror are what I’ve come to think of as “DIY” ceramics–places where cheap, unpainted, unglazed ceramics are stacked up for thrill-seekers to slap a few coats of paint on them, whatever they have the time or interest for. Usually, I get ahold of what must have been either […]
My partner is painting the spare bedroom now, and occasionally I hear crashes. So I’m going to be hiding behind my monitor now, and meditating on the subject of bad DIY painting. It’s kind of a recurring theme. Meet Little Lord Fauntleroy. Actually, that’s a dinosaur behind him, so he’s TITANIC Lord Fauntelroy, towering over […]
I understand the dish ran away with the spoon, but after that it was endless hours of passive-aggressive arguing, veiled accusations about the time so-and-so spent with the knife, and sullen silences under dinner. There is no sadness like the sadness of a plate-faced man. He has seen so many things. The crumbs of a […]
See, normally when I see this particular lady, her head is grossly inflated like some sort of decaying melon. This time, though, she’s got a sort of Claude Monet thing happening, “Damsel with Umbrella.” Her hair looks like some sort of terrible tar applied to her head, neck, and back, but at least her neck can […]
I think we’ve been here before. Not precisely here, not at this physical address perhaps, but we’ve definitely been in this suburb, certainly this zip code, and, I think, possibly this street. If this were a duplex and not a blog post, I’d say we’d stopped by the “B” unit before, or maybe hung out […]
Hair by Cathy Guisewite. We don’t specifically know what, exactly, Mickey rules. Is he some sort of medieval viscount? Perhaps he has a caliphate, where he acts as the supreme spiritual and temporal ruler of his people, mostly ducks. This girl, presumably his subject, doesn’t seem to be in love with the concept. Do not […]
The 70s called. They said they could keep their dog. Frankly, it was scaring the big-eyed children, and had put the big-eyed cat off its Tender Vittles. Dog, or fungus? I ask myself that every day, but as it turns out, no, they’re supposed to smell like that. I don’t know that they’re supposed to […]
It’s time for our semi-quarterly visit from the Shelfpig! This pig is all things to all people. If you want danger, he’s a tiger. Look at them stripes. The mask, the dark paint around the eyes and…uh…snout. This pig is a pig of action, if you want him to be. And yet, he’s a pig […]
Or maybe beige? Possibly not a boy at all, but some sort of cauliflower? There’s no earthy way of knowing. And I’m pretty sure that’s my grandma’s left candlestick he’s about to huff. I was wondering where that one had gotten to. Never would have thought that she’d gone and given it to the gypsy […]
Little-known fact about angels: God made them out of chewing gum. Used chewing gum. Some strawberry, mostly, and whatever flavor happens when you mash up Bazooka Joe pink with lime. It’s really only important that they’re approximately humanoid. You know, a suggestion of arms. People’s imaginations fill in the rest. BTW, be careful of the wings. They’re […]