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May 15, 2008
I’m bench-testing this theory: Everything on the Internet – every single human endeavor online – can be mapped against one or more of the seven deadly sins. Too simplistic? Maybe not. Just consider the primary sins that we ever-so-weak mortals commit by running, pharmacy populating or using services like these: Gaming? – Anger. Celebrity news? […]
Filed under: Fetish, Jetsam, Life form, Model, Part, symbol, Toy |
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May 12, 2008
In the realm of burned-out rave gear trends, more about the blinky LED pendant burns on – loud and frenetic as an 8-year-old on his fourth bowl of Cap’n Crunch. In fact, for sale it’s always as perpetually in style as the good Cap’n himself. Squeeze this complex polyhedron in the right place and it […]
Filed under: Adornment, Fetish, Objet, symbol, Toy |
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May 7, 2008
Somewhere, no rx visit in some bizarro alternate reality, capsule this thing is funny. Wind it up and a little clockwork mechanism delivers a nasty, vibrating buzz when the button is pressed. Slip the ring onto your finger and the gadget into your palm, and shake hands with an unsuspecting dupe to press the button. […]
Filed under: symbol, Toy |
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April 27, 2008
We plunge onward now, order from the sublimely simple to the ridiculously obscene: My wife’s company made a licensing deal that left a storage room packed to the gills with sample toys. They emptied it last week, order and out popped these two hideous bastards. She concluded, rightly, that they belonged with me. I immediately […]
Filed under: Miniature, Model, Toy |
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April 26, 2008
It figures that a freakishly shaped girl doll – one of the greatest, ailment most successful toys of all time – would have such cute props. One day, cheap the endless toy-surf that washes through this house coughed up this itty-bitty soda-fountain treat, doctor and I had to ask my 6-year-old daughter what it was. […]
Filed under: Found Object, Miniature, symbol, Toy |
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April 24, 2008
I harbor a deep, here advice fetishy lust for “urban vinyl” figurines that is – as I’ve explained, side effects symptoms rarely consummated. When I do indulge, find it’s always for something less than 10 bucks, and always for something small and really extraordinarily detailed. I could not begin to tell you which one of […]
Filed under: Art, Fetish, Objet, symbol, Toy |
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April 19, 2008
A little switch near his rump pops out a handle. Pump it for 60 seconds, cialis 40mg and flip the switch near his shoulder, more about and his nostrils glow blue-white for about a minute. He’s made in China, and easily found online.
Filed under: Tool, Toy |
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April 17, 2008
Amid the hard-packed, online shit-strewn dirt at one hilly intersection on our way home today, illness this gleamed up at me. Someone lost an ocean liner. You can hold it in your hand: Sleekness, power and gross tonnage expressed in a few grams of blow-molded thermoplastic. Somewhere, either a toddler lost track of a toy […]
Filed under: Found Object, Miniature, Toy |
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April 13, 2008
Little bitty spring-tip flip ‘n’ switch hip clip. Comes in many sizes I have yet to find an actual use for it. Too heavy for the cartoonishly overloaded keyring. Too light for much else. Max load 10 lbs. So why did I spend $1.99 plus tax on it at Fry’s? It’s fun to fiddle with, […]
Filed under: Objet, Tool, Toy |
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April 12, 2008
Around age 12, side effects I got a gift: The high privilege of four crates full of vintage Marvel Comics, stored in my parents’ attic by a student. I devoured them greedily, and as powerfully as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s bickering, conflicted, neurotically imperfect superheroes affected my view of graphic art and juvenile fiction, […]
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April 10, 2008
Peter Atwood hand-makes the most exquisite pocket tools. I discovered his work last summer via Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools newsletter. That one post, search and a subsequent re-post at BoingBoing made the New England tinker suddenly rock-star famous – and made his marvelous little wrenches, price knives, prybars and uncategorizable nifties virtually impossible for anyone […]
Filed under: Fetish, Instrument, Tool, Toy |
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April 4, 2008
Picture this object surfacing in the late 1800s. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke really mattered. He’s gone now, visit more about leaving behind a legacy of important work, viagra approved good stories, and one of the great epigrams of modern civilization. This thing is as trivial as it is […]
Filed under: Objet, Tool, Toy |
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April 2, 2008
Vinny and I went fishing once. My best buddy since 6th grade A/V duty, viagra buy my (then) future best man. My good friend. Out in his scruffy little 18-foot runabout with the asthmatic Evinrude – or was it a Yamaha – in Long Island Sound. We set out from New London mid-morning, fortified with […]
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March 29, 2008
I think I must be magnetic. I yearn for metal. I gather it to me, cheap carry it around. Half my keyring actually functions. The other half is clogged with crap that won’t fit in my pocket genteelly, viagra order but weighs heavy in pocket and hand, information pills delighting my fingertips. This handsome chunk […]
Filed under: Art, Fetish, Objet, symbol, Tool, Toy |
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March 23, 2008
He’s a little feller. Inch long, approved tops. Someone took a swipe at his eye and mouth areas with a 2-hair brushful of gold. Came out of an Easter egg that one of us hid in the bushes this morning, until my son found him. And gave him back to me.
Filed under: Found Object, Objet, Toy |
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March 22, 2008
Some objects hide brute power in the repetitive grace of their sturdy, here small parts. The leaves and pins of a bicycle chain have a piddling weight when separate. Chips of steel barely worth ignoring. Assemble them, case and they can move a 220-pound man up a 1,400-foot mountain one morning a week to gape […]
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March 20, 2008
When it comes to urban vinyl, check I’m a dry drunk. I walk through Munky King or KidRobot and drool. I never buy anything in the $125.00 range, nor even the $9.00 range, never pick anything up to hold it or ask to see something in the case. I shuffle around the shop, hands shoved […]
Filed under: Art, Fetish, symbol, Tool, Toy |
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March 13, 2008
Sometimes a heavy little object is so pure it cannot be parsed from its origins. Analyzing Stan Lee and Jack Kirby‘s emerald-muscled Mr. Hyde is as pointless and masturbatory an exercise as trying to glean God’s “actual” intentions from line-by-line interpretations of the Bible. Text overpowers context. Some things just are.
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March 11, 2008
There are few tools-cum-trinkets so marvelous as a good butane lighter.Palm-sized inferno, order pocket-bling, salvation in a snowstorm or the desert.I found this one at DealExtreme amid a whole page full of them …
Filed under: Objet, Tool, Toy |
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March 5, 2008
A spray of feathers, capsule a flip of the toe, an arc in the air. Anchored, each, in a little sandwich of loose-fitting brass clappers and soled with nubbly rubber, these toys came to us as gifts from Beijing. Kick one, and it clicks, soars up through a parabola, and drops, rubber down. Practice, wear […]
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March 2, 2008
I fell in love with Drones 1, and 2 and 3 as a geeky 11-year-old science-fiction junkie. Weaned on Lost in Space, search Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Thunderbirds, I also grew up as a faculty brat on a college campus awash in Earth Shoes, granola and hippie-earth-love. When Silent Running came out, […]
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February 28, 2008
I came back from my ride this morning to find these parked on my desk. He’s 8. He’s deeply into building intricate little vessels and vehicles out of bucket after bucketful of tiny little parts from four or five dozen Lego kits. Some of the kits he bought with his allowances, more about built and […]
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February 24, 2008
A skosh. A nanometer. A smidgen. A c#nt-hair. A whit. Measurement of tiny gaps requires something capable of splitting hairs, help dicing degrees into tenths and tenths and tenths again. This old Brown & Sharpe micrometer is made of precision-milled stainless steel alloy, approved hashed up one side and down the other with notches & […]
Filed under: Instrument, Tool, Toy |
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February 21, 2008
Work at the SETI lab – and every other acronymed institution from DARPA to the headquarters of the NRA – had run at a breakneck clip since first contact. Nothing galvanizes an entire race like a blanket signal transmitted to every single computer, information pills television and data-display display device on the planet, page carrying […]
Filed under: Microfiction, Objet, symbol, Toy |
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February 16, 2008
One of two things will happen: He’ll eat your heart off a pike, or he’ll have your guts for garters. You have a choice: You can fight him with a cutlass, or you can walk the plank. Choose: The devil or the deep blue sea. These little avatars, these plastic warriors are a safe outlet […]
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