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There's nothing kitschy about this photograph per se but there's no doubt that Lily Tomlin has one of the all-time greatest senses of kitsch on the planet. Lily and Jane have been partners forever and Jane...
September 2nd, 2010 by Allee Willis
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Ava does leopard print (and very well I may add )
September 2nd, 2010 by shirlie williams
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not kitsch, but from a very kitsch heavy era - my mom was a prolific artist from when she was a young girl, creating many paintings. She stopped working on major pieces soon after marrying my dad. Works...
September 1st, 2010 by MeshuggaMel
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I snapped this photo in the lounge at the Country House of the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills-- the "Old Actor's Home." It's an original oil painting of famed costume designer Edith...
August 31st, 2010 by Douglas Wood
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NOTE: My grandparents built their house in the mid 1960s. They decorated it well, then pretty much kept it as is. So, my grandmother, now 94, has one of the koolest pads around. I think it affected...
August 31st, 2010 by MeshuggaMel
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I wanted to do a proper post featuring "Childstar" instead of showing it in a mix of other things.
These shots were taken in my favorite room where these formats of the lp and 8 track are on display....
August 30th, 2010 by denny
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Even growing up, I knew my grandparents where sophisticated. They're house was decorated like no other I'd ever seen, or, frankly, have ever seen since. My grandmother, now 94, doesn't host functions any...
August 29th, 2010 by MeshuggaMel
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First, a definition. "UNGAPATCHKA" describes the overly ornate, busy, ridiculously over-decorated, and garnished to the point of distaste. Thankfully, the point of distaste is debatable. My grandparents,...
August 27th, 2010 by MeshuggaMel
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Here's your chance to own a piece of literary history!
http://cgi.ebay.com/J-D-Salinger-PERSONALLY-OWNED-USED-Toilet-Commode-/370416967312?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0
From the eBay description: "Here's an item...
August 22nd, 2010 by Mark Blackwell
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This is a post script to a previous post about the store in Lihue, HI. After driving by "Two Frogs Hugging" many times this week, and spurned on by comments left on the internet about the place, I decided...
August 18th, 2010 by Mark Milligan
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Seen in a shop in London. Genius? Or wrong?
August 16th, 2010 by petermmarino
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Breaking kitsch news: Morrie Yohai, inventor of the Cheez Doodle, has passed away at 90. He changed many lives and turned many people's fingers orange.
Full obit here in the New York Times: http://w...
August 15th, 2010 by Mark Blackwell
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These are photos from actual high school yearbooks. Suddenly my own portrait with my blown-dry hair and wide tie (which, my lips to God's ears-- will never wind up on the Internet) doesn't seem so bad....
August 6th, 2010 by Douglas Wood
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My life would have never been the same without Soul music. Growing up in Detroit, my teenage years were spent on the far right of the AM radio dial, down where the black stations were. I had no idea...
August 2nd, 2010 by Allee Willis
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When (casually) passing through Peak's Island, Maine visit the Umbrella Cover Museum. From the website: " The Umbrella Cover Museum is dedicated to the appreciation of the mundane in everyday life. It is...
July 29th, 2010 by compliance9
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"Hello Mudda...Camp Granada" noted in game post on 7-22. These are photos taken July 1969 at Allan Sherman's NYC apartment. My mind's eye captured more than my camera. Shooting down 22 stories onto E...
July 24th, 2010 by MyFunCloset
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If you're ever in Southern Arizona you must stay at the Shady Dell trailer park resort in Bisbee! We had a blast there. Not only do you get the fun of staying in a completely restored vintage travel trailer...
July 20th, 2010 by Michael Ely
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LP and artwork for Johnny "Guitar" Wilson's album. Although the lp is quite brilliant, it's seeing it framed HUGE like that is amazing. Johnny is rocking the afro!
I melt over this sign! I think this...
July 19th, 2010 by denny
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My partner, Spider, just had his 59th birthday so we decided to celebrate with a group of friends down in Bisbee. Bisbee is an old Victorian mining town, about a two hour drive South of Tucson, about five...
July 19th, 2010 by Michael Ely
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I drove up to Monterey on Friday from LA. Most people would get excited about going to the Aquarium or Cannery Row but I get excited about the cheesy names of the roads on a shortcut we take from the 5 to the...
July 11th, 2010 by Allee Willis
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