Weekend Bonus: For Anyone Who Would Like Their Retinas Burned

Ahhh, it's that time of the week again:  weekend bonus time, where, if you're lucky, I find the most ridiculous +/or hideous piece of decor currently on the market.  This week's edition is especially exciting because I know so many of you (I'm talking to you Erin) LOVE them some tufted leather.  Watch the leather craft get violated before your vary eyes:

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What's that?  You need a closer look?  You're the boss:

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Get a load of those arm rests!  I get that this chair is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but it really isn't funny.  It looks like it should be in a die-hard-sports-fan's game room.  And I never ever want to go into a die-hard-sports-fan's game room.

Oh, if you want one of these (?????) you can get it here: chesterfold

September 11

On September 11 I was living in Hawaii, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, cut off from the continent, with no way to leave, but also in no imminent danger. I photographed the empty sky for days until the planes started running again. It was very quiet.

september 11

Where were you that day?

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Kids, drinking is wrong. But sometimes it is a necessary evil -- for example, when celebrating birthdays. And sometimes drinking leads one to fall out of one's chair, thereby bruising one's delicate derriere, although one might forget that it even happened, save for the twinges of painful reminders while sitting. Which generally occurs from the hours of 9 to 5. And oftentimes one does not sleep well after a night of imbibery, thereby ensuring that morning shall come too soon and the day shall be hellishly long. And writing is the LAST thing one wants to do, as all that type type typing disturbs the lovely silence, and also because the cursor is dizzying. Eventually one is forced to seek out flashy means of entertainment, as one has the attention span of a gnat. Behold:

little joseph

Little Joseph candleholders by Qubus please one. One fantasizes about plugging Little Joseph's head hole with multicolored candles, and one laughs.

piggy bank

One also enjoys all kinds of piggy banks, but one is especially enthralled by this piggy bank cast from a real suckling pig.  One has read that piggy died of natural causes, and also that $10 from the sale of each pig shall be donated to the Humane Society. That makes one happy.

pig table

Actually, as a general rule, one likes pigs, and one also covets Karly's gold panther platter tables, so why not a gold pig platter table?

gnome table

Conflict! One cannot have two tables, and one LOVES gnomes. One may or may not have had a David the Gnome fetish as a child... One also finds it funny that Philipe Starck designed a gnome table.

moor table

One does NOT want this table, as one is totally offended by the idea that a "Blackamoor" (foolish term courtesy of the seller... one would never be caught dead saying such things) should be forced to carry cocktails. One feels that whomever purchases this table is a bad person. Not that one is judgmental, or anything.

baby hand soaps

One's agitation is soothed by these multiracial baby hand soaps. One likes the tiny baby fist that appears to say, "Fight the power!" in tiny baby sign language.

bust of lenin

One very much DOES want this bust of Lenin covered in traditional Czech patterns. One never realized how Lenin's facial hair makes him look uncannily Satanic, but one is entertained by his creepy visage in juxtaposition with the pretty pretty flowers.

One feels better now.