Friday, February 6, 2009

High-Five Friday, February 6, 2009

High Fives go to...

1 Thanks, Cheetah Velour, for showing us damn funny books at the thrift shoppe.

2 We made the 100th edition of Make it from Scratch. Want to know what for? Well, go see it -- or must I do everything for you?

3 You really should go Jump with Joey.

4 Got tee shirts you want to sell, but they hold so many memories...? At re-shirt.net you list the shirts to sell -- but the stories live on forever.

5 I was going to post this KKK stunt here, but Deuce of Clubs has spared me all that typing.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

High-Five Friday - Thanks & Christmas Kitsch

1 & 2 Thanks to both Boing Boing and Jezebel for linking to the pixie pajama bag!

3 Hey, did you know I was interviewed over at Marty's ephemera blog? Thanks to Marty, you can now get deeper inside my twisted little mind. (You know you want to!)

4 Shawnee at Kinsanity has a cool campy Christmas series called The Holidays Are For...

5 Friday Night Lists has posted a Top 10 Bits of Christmas Kitsch.

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Friday's High-Fives On A Saturday?

Because Blogger Draft didn't believe me when I scheduled it.

#1 What's the story with this vintage bag? No Juan Knows.

#s 2, 3 & 4 Two blogs, three posts, one author: Slip of a Girl. It's not my fault there were too many good posts to choose from.
What does Doris Day need to know?

Hey, Little Spaceman

Flapper Girl, What's Under There?
#5 Gawker tracked DNC hats; presumably, so you didn't have to.

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Friday, July 18, 2008

High-Five Fridays: Giving Thanks

Want to give high-fives too? Sure you do!

1) We'd like to thank the fine folks at StumbleUpon for noticing the Kitschy Kitschy Coo.

2) Thanks to Woot for sending folks to play the map game.

3) And many thanks to Dinosaurs and Robots for the linkage as well.

4) Kudos to the Baltimore County Public Library for not only having a zine collection, but blogging about it too.

5) A big ol' howdy to the Cochran's, who stop in at CQ quite often.

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Friday, July 11, 2008

High-Five Fridays (Stuff We Dug This Week)

Want to give high-fives too? Sure you do!

1) If you don't know how to thrift (and frankly, that frightens us), check out welcome to Thriftland.

2) Everyone needs a paint by number farting unicorn -- or knows someone who does! ...Maybe that's just me?

3) Other things we make the kids do. (Don't call the authorities; they like it, I swear!)

4) Aliens & arson in 1935. (Strange Canadians!)

5) What do you do with a Mingering Mike? (Not sure I'd comply.)

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Friday, June 27, 2008

High-Fives On Fridays

Want to give high-fives too? Sure you do!

But read & visit mine first!

1) Two words: Babee Tenda!

2) Canadians were in WWII? Who knew? (It's like they're an independent country or something!)

3) Rian Fike made The Miami Herald!

4) A general shout-out high-five to A Tad Too Much Tan For Taupe.

5) MrsTattooedGeek for her Skull with Butterfly Wings in Black Natural Cotton Tote.

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Meme & Youme

High-Five Fridays is on a hiatus, but I'm going to use this time to participate in the memes I've been tagged for (and so far neglected). If you hate how I'm doing these, all lumped together in one post, then please don't tag me anymore. *wink* (It's flattering, really; but when inundated my already "far behind" life lags even worse.)

Four score & seven years ago, Thom of Planet Fabulon gave me/us the E for Excellence award. I now bequest (with hopes they take action faster than I!) the award to the following (who I believe have not already received it &/or will pass it along):

iKonic Vintage
Slip of A Girl (for A Slip of a Girl &/or A Tad Too Much Tan For Taupe)
Vintage Goodness

Next, Miss Janey, by way of Mr Peenee, confuzzled me into playing the Mrpeenee Auto Haiku Tag Meme. The short story on how to play is:

In five syllables, no more, no less, describe the worst movie you can think of.
In seven syllables, no more, no less, describe your worst date.
In five syllables, no more, no less, describe the worst job you ever had.
Here's my go at it:
Body count, no Bruce.
Wet thumb, knocked up.
Teen boy sneaker help.
Here's who I torture with an official tag (anyone else is free to play):

Crazy Crafty Cat Chick
Slip of a Girl
Full Body Transplant

Last, but not least, Crazy Crafty Cat Chick (who should post more often so I can add her to the sidebar) tagged us, so I'll post this; but taking my cue from Silent Porn Star, I won't tag anyone. If you want to participate, you just copy & paste the list into your blog, adding your blog to the list, and publish. (And tag, if you so dare).

  • Dhanosh

  • Marketing Myself

  • Brawny Hunk

  • Motorparasi

  • Nicksplat

  • Annette

  • Super Hero Extraordinare

  • Everyday should be Christmas

  • The Gadget Guru tech

  • Available Light

  • Dad's Dish

  • What Goes Under the Sun

  • One Quart Low

  • Stephan Miller

  • Mental Poo

  • Search for Blogging

  • Renatodoxaguia

  • Angel Baby

  • The Sleeping Turtle Art Gallery

  • Hanna

  • JollyJo

  • Olga the traveling bra

  • Concept is addict

  • Postarelibero

  • Nokhathai

  • Momreviews

  • Into the Rabbit Hole

  • Smile! Tomorrow could be a lot worse!

  • Wicked Whispers

  • Anand's blog


  • Catatonic Kid: A Mind Boiling Over

  • Discorax's House of Woot

  • Blogging from the Bog

  • Shiv's Brain

  • Secret Spiritual Dance

  • Sisters of a Different Order.

  • OMYWORD! Did I say that?

  • Letters from Exile.

  • ~From the Myst~

  • I-Ching Online.

  • The World According to Me

  • Rantings & Ramblings

  • Crazy Crafty Cat Chick.

  • The BearTwins Mom

  • Gracefully Abnormal

  • Kitschy Kitschy Coo
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    Friday, April 11, 2008

    High-Five Fridays #13

    1)In today's ear worm news... Got La Cucaracha stuck in your head? Finding out what the song means may not be key to getting rid of it, but you should understand what you are humming. (And if it's not stuck in your head, it will now! You're welcome.)

    2) I'd like to thank all those who've been participating in my CQ interview project.

    Here's a bit from co-conspirator Collin:

    Collin David: (Sure, you know him from this very blog; but sometimes it’s fun to also be the interviewee. He also can be found at his own blog, ResonantFish.com, and in the CQ Community.)

    #1 Among other things: I primarily collect Batman stuff and action figures of all kinds. Secondary (but still scary) collections include vinyl records, art, robots, squid, DVDs and videos, trade paperback comics, Legos, gaming miniatures, trading cards, all kinds of books, scrap pieces of plastic, wood, metal and beyond, instruments. I’m actually slimming down a bit due to space concerns. And when I say ‘concerns’, I mean ‘am I going to be crushed in the night?’

    3) A high-five for Silent Porn Star's mention on Dancing With The Stars (NWS) (even if it was an odd coincidence, not a real plug).

    4) We like random factoids, especially when they're fun.

    5) Speaking of buses...



    Thanks to brasmeta01 for posting it.

    Want to give high-fives too? Participation is a lot like Thursday Thirteen, only your post is links to who and what you like. (Plus, it's only 5 instead of 13!)

    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Friday, April 4, 2008

    High-Five Fridays #12

    1) Giving back linky love to Tom McMahon for reading here.

    2) Props must go to Boing Boing for noting how cool I am (even if it was for the dolls in a dead tree post at CQ) -- it still counts, and I'm still cool. (And thanks to William at Hang Fire Books for getting it there.)

    3) Linky love, with many returns, to Learning To Share.

    4) Ditto PCL LinkDump.

    5) And more linky love to & from Jenn Beyer.

    Want to give high-fives too? Participation is a lot like Thursday Thirteen, only your post is links to who and what you like. (Plus, it's only 5 instead of 13!)

    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Friday, March 21, 2008

    High-Five Fridays #10

    Less kitschy, but still eyebrow raising...

    1) Hitler and the Seven Dwarfs likely needs some sort of an introduction (if you haven't heard about it yet), but I like to make you curious enough to click.

    2) A beautiful (and slightly creepy) vintage tablecloth with the embroidered signatures of British WWII prisoners.

    Too cool for school...

    3) Slippity-do-da's Very Draining Post, Indeed.

    4) KKC was Found in Mom's Basement. (How'd we get in her mom's basement?)

    5) A high-five to Marty Weil for his patience during my interview with him at CQ.

    Want to give high-fives too? Participation is a lot like Thursday Thirteen, only your post is links to who and what you like. (Plus, it's only 5 instead of 13!)

    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Saturday, March 15, 2008

    High-Five Fridays -- So Simple, A Squirrel Can Do It!

    1) Make The Logo Bigger gave us props, so right back atcha!

    2) A high-five -- and a Get Out! shove -- to Miss Janey for her "Neverland Ranch" comment on the Bedtime with Blackout and Jocko illustration post. (You can pick your award up here.)

    3) A high-five for Dynasty of Lao for having the good taste to notice us -- and point it out to others.

    4) The Dean gets one high-five for two posts on Les Paul: Music Collectors: Sheet Music to 50k Les Paul Guitars and Musical Collections: The Les Paul Experience. (The second includes info on & a preview of the official Les Paul museum exhibit.)

    5) Lastly, a high-five to Neatorama for listening to Rian (again) and posting about KKC.


    Want to give high-fives too? Participation is a lot like Thursday Thirteen, only your post is links to who and what you like. (Plus, it's only 5 instead of 13!)

    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Friday, February 29, 2008

    High-Five Fridays #7

    1) A high-five to Mute Mondays, because I'd forgotten how fun they can be.

    2) Humor-Blogs has funnier people and posts than we do. Or so I am told. (What do I care about 'funny' when I can be 'snarky' and 'interesting, even, occasionally, 'clever' and 'witty'.)

    3) Brocante gets a general high-five for general goodness.

    The next two each get a general high-five for, um, general badness -- but in the most delicious of ways!

    4) Stinky Lulu, for the mocking of and marveling at movie madness, including a special focus on supporting actresses. Via Silent Porn Star * (The *, I remind you, is for 'possible nudity' -- which with 'porn' in the name, you should already know; but there, I've warned you.)

    5) No Smoking in the Skull Cave has appeared at KKC before, but it's chock full of vintage pop culture vitamins -- which surprisingly, get more potent with age -- and worthy of another celebratory slap.

    Want to give high-fives too? Participation is a lot like Thursday Thirteen, only your post is links to who and what you like. (Plus, it's only 5 instead of 13!)

    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Friday, February 22, 2008

    High-Five Fridays #6

    1) A high-five for Rian for having the patience of a saint school teacher during my interview with him.

    2) Believe in UFOs? Maybe you should. Unidentified Family Objects is a cool blog -- and who knows, maybe your family's objects are there?

    3) Now there's a Wiki for Vintage Sewing Patterns. A serious way to kill at least 24 hours. (Found via Tad Too Much tan For Taupe's TT post.)

    4) Scott McLemee's Quick Study, a blog on books, ideas and trash-culture ephemera. (Gotta wonder why he's not been here before -- perhaps because he considers himself a 'feuilletonist' rather than a blogger.)

    5) Spare Mindy's Easy-Make Oven is super cute -- and clever!

    Want to give high-fives too? Participation is a lot like Thursday Thirteen, only your post is links to who and what you like. (Plus, it's only 5 instead of 13!)

    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Friday, February 15, 2008

    High-Five Fridays #5

    1) William at Hang Fire Books overheard this conversation between two Salvation Army workers.

    2) I mock a lot of crafts here, but as you've likely expected I am also charmed by many too -- I must be at some level to save all the stuff I do. *wink* For those who admit their problem hobby, check out Vintage Craft Patterns for free old instructions.

    3) Somewhat related is Make. It's not always 'old' but it's of the same DIY spirit that you see in Popular Mechanics, Work Basket etc.

    4) High-fives in general to coisas do arco da velha "bizarre - burlesque - freaks - circus - kitsch - pulp - mexico". Don't worry, it's in English -- but even ifin t'weren't, you'd enjoy the images & understand it all the same. (Like you understand what I say here half the time anyway.)

    5) Most of you probably know of the Vintage Ad community at LiveJournal, but it's worth a high-five for its continued dedication.

    Want to give high-fives too? Participation is a lot like Thursday Thirteen, only your post is links to who and what you like.

    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Friday, February 8, 2008

    High-Five Fridays #4

    1) High-fives to Neatorama for posting our refrigerated rabbit -- and to Rian for submitting it to them.

    2) Row of potatoes, which amused me greatly when we found it -- still does after hubby posted it. *wink*

    3) History Is Elementary is a blog by -- what else? -- an elementary history teacher. It's not kitschy, but it is is super cool. Grab a beverage and sit down to dig in at the site. (No fork needed for this tasty buffet.) It's so great that I'm adding it to the sidebar too.

    4) A gleeful high-five to C. Monks at Utter Wonder as he worries about the effects of nerds at his blog. (As noted in the comments, he says 'nerds' while they say 'geeks' -- tomato/tomatoe as far as Monks' concerns go.) So why am I high-fiving him? Well, he writes a pretty clever post -- and the first part of dealing with his problem is to admit he has a problem. But of course the real reason I'm high-fiving the Monks is (drum roll) because I want to send more geeks and nerds his way. Fly my little minions, fly!

    5) Flyfish Magazine brings you awesome images of Brian Gillis' teardrop camper with a fishing motif.



    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Friday, February 1, 2008

    High-Five Fridays #3


    1) Are you obsessed with those 80's malls? Sure you are, Valley Girl; so head on over to Big Mall Rat. (Psst, boys, I'll be at the fountain at 3, after I ditch my mom.)

    2) A review of 1968's The King, fiction which reportedly angered Sinatra but delighted Silent Porn Star * (Yup, the asterisk means the site may have/has adult content. But shouldn't the name tell you that?)

    3) A review of In the Realms of the Unreal -- how the heck have we missed this film?!

    4) Apparently Elizabeth at Ridiculon has been linking to here since 1972 and I just noticed. High-five for her; slap on the fanny for me.

    5) A high-five for myself for finally ranting & spewing my hatred for James Woods -- too bad it took Sean Young's drinking to force my writing hand. (Link is safe, but the site itself, Sex-Kitten.Net, is NWS.)

    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Friday, January 25, 2008

    High-Five Fridays #2 (But My First On A Friday)


    1) Rian Fike of Full Body Transplant says that I am "the Snark MASTER!" Likely this post disappoints in that regard, but there's always another post to be made...

    2) Suburban Diva asks, "Does this room make me look fat?" I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate by association.

    3) Reading The Past On Postcards (at CQ; but not by me) discusses more than the pretty pictures -- but yes, it shows neat old postcards too!

    4) Did you know that the Library of Congress had a blog?

    5) The "Top Ten Science Based Predictions that didn’t come true" has been selected as much for the science kitsch as for the fabulous Wayne's World graphic.



    Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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    Saturday, January 19, 2008

    High-Five Fridays - This Saturday

    Participating in High-Five Fridays gives me a chance to set aside the snark, the sassy mocking, and be nice -- by directing you to others who may, or may not, be equally filled with snark, sass, and mocking.

    #1 Susan Helene Gottfried was so kind with her comments on my T13 at CQ that I'm gonna high-five her for that. (And my apologies for scaring her cat.)

    #2 Dump Diggers is serious about dump digging: Part One, Part Two.

    #3 There's Your Boyfriend is the blog that plays the game we girls all used to. The scary thing is that these are real people, and are likely someone's boyfriend or spouse. :shudder:

    #4 If you miss the humor here, check out Humor-Blogs.

    #5 If you miss the kitschy thrift store finds we usually have here (and will continue to post, really!), get your fix at Thrift Store Love.

    It's not too late to play -- Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

    The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

    Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NWS).



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