Rabbit Season!!
Rabbit Season!!

(It’s been a while since my last post here, work’s been challenging and I’m trying to figure out a balance of life/work/projects. Since Facebook started throttling my traffic Thrifthorror hasn’t gotten much traction, so I’m thinking of going to one really good post on Mondays, maybe more around the holidays.) Easter is just around the […]

Inside an Angel
Inside an Angel

Angels. They have those flowing white robes, a bit of a tendency toward androgyny, and they’re ever so holier-than-thou (although, being angels, it’s probably allowed. Have you ever wondered what was up those shiny white robes? The truth may puzzle and disturb you. Angels are spun from the thoughts of God, of course. Everyone knows […]

Scary Santa’s Christmas Garrote
Scary Santa’s Christmas Garrote

Actually, I’m not sure if this is a Santa with a garrote or a sort of cheerful anthropomorphic personification of spring. Either way, not a bad way to end the 12 days of Christmas. Meet the last Santa you’ll ever see. I suppose the flowers should make me feel at ease–maybe that’s what he wants–but it […]

Angels we have…oh nevermind.
Angels we have…oh nevermind.

What is the sound of a chorus of angels made of beer cans? It’s not “Alleluia, Alleluia,” it’s probably not even “Fa la la la la la,” though it might be “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” in four-part discord. (Incidentally, I tried to look up the definition of “proparation”, there isn’t one. My […]

Morally Affronted Cork Lady
Morally Affronted Cork Lady

It’s probably something you did. Frankly, it’s ALWAYS something you did, but this time, cork lady cannot hide her indignation. From her puritanical collar and dignified, all-concealing marm-smock, to her delicately ruffled…uh…is that a cnidarian? Some sort of sea-life, anyway–she is a creature of disapproval. If she has eyebrows–she might have eyebrows, the jellyfish could […]

Creepy stickfish
Creepy stickfish

Actually, the fish really isn’t that creepy unless you can see his horrible little eye, so I’m blowing the image up just a tetch to, you know, make the creepy “pop.”   We’ve got a sort of an undead thing going on here, exposed rib, gaunt “Souxie and the Banshees” eye socket there, but he’s happy […]

Is it Fall yet?
Is it Fall yet?

The beginning of Autumn just snuck past, and I totally failed to mark it, probably because it was an unreasonable 97 degrees during most of September. But now, let’s take a moment to celebrate all things Autumnal–the harvest, leaves, pumpkins, glorious reds and golds, and above all, the vague feeling that life is dying and […]

Pedalling frantically, staying still
Pedalling frantically, staying still

The thing about a clown race is…there are no winners. Particularly when everybody is taped down, but it’s broadly true regardless. Fancy leopard print hats? Still clowns. Please note that this is definitive proof that clowns live in fear of God. See how they peddle. It does them no good, because…tape. Perhaps the pure light of heaven […]

Meanwhile in Austin
Meanwhile in Austin

Ragweed, cedar, mold, and apparently cat dander is sweeping in from the north, south, east, west, and exotic directions like “strange” to create a perfect swarm of allergens, and, really, I kind of feel like this. Not so much the part of being covered in brightly colored crepe, but the part of having feathers rammed […]

New frontiers in yarn
New frontiers in yarn

I don’t care if chenille is the softest thing on the earth, I’m not touching that cupcake. It’s got pieces of hamburger or something on it. Maybe bits of hummingbird, definitely some dog fur in there too. You eat it.   A little taste of the third dimension would have gone a long way to redeeming […]