Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Posts Of Halloween Past


I've been busy this Halloween; here's a round-up of the Halloween posts I made this year:

1. Vintage Halloween party recipes, from this issue of The Royal Neighbor.

2. Halloween's a blast! Back when you could shoot children who annoyed you, anyway.

3. My review of the retro skeleton game based on Dark Shadows' vampire, Barnabas Collins.

4. My review of a gravedigger's memoirs.

5. Did you see the antique vampire killing kits up for auction?

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Hank Didn't Mean To Give The Waitress The Finger


He was just no good with cameras.

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We All Need A Fleece Elephant Roundabout Doll


By Kinderware.

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Mixed Vegetables Message

Proof that the Jolly Green Giant knew that Little Sprout was skipping his vegetables:

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Memo To Becky: Pray Or Get Off The Pot

When Becky got into the photobooth, she wasn't sure if it was a pretty potty or an unusual confessional. So she did both.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Halloween Nineteen-Ought-Seven: Tricks Bigger Than Treats

Straight out of the pages of The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican, November 2nd, 1907, the story of "Two Brothers Filled With Peas." (Click to enlarge the old news article, or scroll below it to read copied text.)


Farmer Beaton's Sons Treated To A Warm Reception By Irate Farmer On Hallowe'en Night -- A Double Barreled Shot Gun Did The Businss

Two Small boys, the sons of a farmer named Beaton, who lives just outside the west part of Fargo, were shot at by an irate farmer on Hallowe'en and as a result they came to Fargo yesterday and had about a handful of peas picked out of them by a physician.

The Boys had greatly annoyed a neighboring farmer last Hallowe'en, and this year he waited for them with a double-barreled shotgun loaded with peas. The boys approached his place and he let fly with both barrels, and his marksmanship was excellent.

In future Hallowe'ens these particular boys will probably remain a long ways from that particular farmer.

Ahhh, Halloween in 1907, when kids could be shot just for being annoying, good times...

Note that people don't shoot people, "double barreled shot guns do the business."

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Modern Woman Monday: Frankie & Hannah Were Doomed

Though they loved each other deeply, neither one could completely give up the banana.

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Oh, the Weather Outside Is Frightful...

It's getting to be that time of year: you put some logs in the fireplace, get a comfy blaze going while the wind whips the snow outside your window, you pop open a bottle of wine and pull your lover close, curling up on the animal-skin rug in the middl-wait, holy crud, that's not the kind of rug I'm talking about:


That crocodile-skin rug is part of a taxidermy auction, guaranteeing that you'll be the only person who owns one. All I want to know is, who kills a gator and thinks, "that'd feel great on the bottoms of my feet when I hop out of bed on chilly mornings". I mean, other than a Predator or whatever Lou Gossett Jr. was in Enemy Mine. From the looks of the collection, it certainly could be the estate of a Predator. Maybe the have the skull of Jesse "The Body" Ventura on the auction block, too.

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Piggy Bank Tales

I nearly bought this old kitschy piggy bank. It wasn't the padlock sans key that made me decline it (hubby has plenty of old keys -- and should his hundreds fail, my dad has thousands more); it was the fact that I'd already loaded my arms with books and spent my allowance. In hindsight, a locked piggy bank might have been more wise?


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Todd Left To Get Liquid-Plumr

Because whenever Cindy filled the tub, there was always a clog afterwards.

Via eBay.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Sid & Nancy Glitter Heart Necklace

As if combining Sid & Nancy with a big blue glittery heart weren't enough, there's a safety pin and and a razor blade to drive it all home to kitschy heaven. Necklace by IndyGrrrlProductions.

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Retro USSR Earrings

Plastic hammer & sickle circles for your ears.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Dames & Dogs #10

Louise Brooks had a nice pair -- but those puppies were fake.

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Prisencolinensinainciusol!

Seventies italian rap is, surprisingly, much cooler than you might think - with a huge case of the 'trippy' tossed in:



It's actually an edit of two other videos, the sum of the two is far awesomer than each individual piece. If there's one thing to take away from this video, is that there's something missing from the choreography in modern musical performances. There's no way you'll see dozens of undulating, throbbing dancers waving their hands around unironically like that on today's television, and the world is a little sadder because of it.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Who Said Brigitte Bardot Never Had A Cross Word?

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Hefty Hefty Chalkware

Huge (easily 14, maybe even 18 inches, tall) vintage plaster or chalkware pieces I didn't add to my collection because they were $65 for the pair. I love the lady reading!


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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Vintage Yankton Cowboy

A vintage souvenir ceramic tile with a cowboy decal from Yankton, South Dakota; tile measures 6 by 4.5 inches.

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Monday, October 12, 2009

The Taste Stays With You

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The Little Kitten That Came Back

From the June 28, 1910 edition of The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican, a regular bit called Daddy's Bedtime Story, an uncredited column featuring quaint stories for little ones; this story is titled "The Little Kitten That Came Back."

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

He Feels Right At Gnome On Your Chest

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Drive-In (To My) Skirt



Retro-styled circle skirt with drive-in print via Twolia Shops.

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Ring-Ring! Retro Nordstrom Kitsch Calling


Via my Shop It To Me Sale Mail I discovered this Betsey Johnson Flower & Ladybug Ring at Nordstrom.

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Friday, October 9, 2009

More Instant Moustache!

We've already seen that there's no shortage of instant mustache products, but imagine my surprise to see the pool has expanded yet again, with these mustache band-aids:


Sadly, I believe the only logical place to use one of these bandages is on the upper lip, and I can only think of, like, ten different ways to accidentally injure that part of the face (and, of course, right in the center of the lip, otherwise the moustache will be off-center). Oh, well; maybe I'll just wear it on my upper lip, without any covered injury - nobody will know anyways, they're so realistic!

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Regretsy

Etsy is a great place to find hand-made folk and fine arts, but - as you'd expect pretty much anywhere that people can post things without supervision - sometimes the products are a bit...off the wall:

According to Regretsy, the home for horrible Etsy products, the squirrel-fish taxidermy above could be purchased for the low, low price of $350.00. I'll bet, if I comparison-shopped, I could buy a freakin' crate of non-fishy taxidermied squirrels, which I could then superglue fish heads on to. And I realize, well, if I am going through so much work to try and reproduce, en masse, the insane work of art above, I should probably just pay the guy $350.

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Vintage Rhyming & Illustrated Hygiene Advice

Jane clears her nose,
into dainty silk
kerchief

Then wipes her
eye with same

And in 48 hours
an eye infection
made her sore and lame

Always Use paper Tissue For Your Nose And Discard It
From an old copy of Encyclopedia Of Medical Self-Help.

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Dames & Dogs #9


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Space Baby, Baby

Necklace via IndyGrrrlProductions.

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