Wednesday, July 08, 2015

WTF Wednesday: Bicycle Injury, Sewing with Nancy, Spreadeagle Cherub


Hola Wednesday! Hola WTF!

Hola Raggedy Ann.

raggedy ann


1-900-CALL-TEDDY

1-900-call-teddy


A sailor with a lemon is a scurvy-free sailor.

sailor with lemon


Sweet acronym. PRIDE = Preventing Returns Involves Daily Effort. Tell me about it. 

preventing returns


A couple tidbits from 1978's Bicycle Digest.

bicycle digest


Covering both injured and uninjured eyes can help.

cover uninjured eyes


This is wheelie dangerous.

wheelie
   
Hey random kids.

family


An hour of contemporary serging with Nancy.

serging with nancy


This reeks of Saturday Night Live.

nancy


 

Last but not least, a spreadeagle cherub.

spread eagle cherub


As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions. 

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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

WTF Wednesday: Old Lovers, Moby Dick, Dog Bite Art, Monkey Testing


Hello Wednesday! Hello WTF!

Let us begin with a whacked out Christmas elf (?), dated 1976. 

christmas elf


Hey #1 Mom. And Kristie.

#1 mom & kristie

Ashes of old lovers. #neverforget

ashes of old lovers


Teddy bear rides a unicorn bareback.



Here we have a giant beer stein vividly depicting Moby Dick. A hump like a snowhill!

moby dick

Good old dog bite sculpture. 

dogbite

Lipstick on a pig on a coconut.

coconut pig

Nice scene from a book about fractions. 

thirds book 

Here's a different spin on animal testing. Did he say sedative or laxative? 


Last but not least, one-armed clown in a basket. 

basket of clown
As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions. 

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

WTF Wednesday: I Love Cows, Butterfly Painting, Creepy Seamstress


Konichiwa, Wednesday! Konichiwa, WTF!

Starting off with a 1967 bunny piggy bank.

60s piggy bank

Remove his head to get out the coins. 

60s piggy bank

This is no small cross-stitch, at least 3 feet by 2 feet.

i love cows 


Crochet a cover for a foam disk, jam a doll in the center - done!

 

foam ball doll 


How NOT to kill your houseplants. Step 1: place right hand in pocket.


Thrift store art, monarch butterfly:


WTF is going on here?


No really WTF.


Last but not least, an upside down frisbee, ragrolled, with shells and aquarium plants superglued on top, that lights up when plugged in.

  
As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions.

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Monday, June 22, 2015

my friend is on TV!


(technically my friend's sister, but she's my friend, too dammit!)

odd mom out is a new show on monday nights on bravo. written by and starring jill kargman, it's quirky, funny, smart and co-stars the (scene-stealing) newcomer KK Glick.



when i knew KK, she was called kristen. she is the 4 years younger sister of my best friend beth. the first time beth slept over my house in 7th grade, we made an Iroquois longhouse diorama and took screwdrivers around the house tightening all the screws on the light switchplates.

i slept in KK's bed dozens of times from 7th through 12th grade. she and beth shared a room and KK would often weekend nights sleep over a friend's house, leaving a free bed for me to poach. beth and KK have a cool older sister and brother, their brother in particular was himself a friendly allstar athlete and had lots of friendly allstar athlete friends who were always hanging around their house - it was basically heaven for a 15 year old girl, and i slept over there a lot.

back to KK - she was quite a bit younger, but still funny and not annoying - she was into sports and did her own thing with the acting - i remember seeing her do summer music as a little 10 year old kid, singing "Go to Timbuktu!" (Oliver, I'd Do Anything) and 'summer nights' from Grease. 

going to woodloch

we went on many vacations with her family - woodloch pines in the summer and killington in the winter. i wish i had some pictures that include KK with me here in NC, but instead here's my mom and beth riding in their maroon woody minivan to the poconos.

barney & oreo

the only other KK-related photo i have here is this, and this is a sad story which might end up on odd mom out someday - it's KK's christmas present bunny, named Oreo, we kept him overnight at our house for a day or two beforehand to help with the christmas surprise, here he is with my rabbit Barney. i think Oreo lasted about 1 day before he tragically died somehow of natural causes in his hutch. it was probably traumatic for KK.  pretty soon thereafter, they ended up getting Murphy, a small white ball of tail wagging fluff who loved to lick.

christmas 93

anyway, i am so proud of KK for following her dreams and landing this amazing role on major Big Time TV.  she plays dr. vanessa and is calm and hilarious. she is so much like her real self, it's hard to believe she is acting.

in last week's episode, they said my name! kind of.  jill is telling her husband to find love and remarry if she should die first, and she suggests he remarry 'lolly mctammany' - haha!  see the 30 second video here: Odd Mom Out

see KK saying funny things:
KK tours Jill's Bedroom

check out
KK Glick on Bravo

KK Glick's personal website

KK Glick's twitter.

KK Glick's instagram.


so maybe check out the show if you like to laugh. i'd like to nominate KK Glick for an emmy.  

in her honor, here is a video of van halen "dreams." 



and also one of extreme 'more than words.' 



Wednesday, June 17, 2015

WTF Wednesday: Barefoot Danny, Wolf Milk, Say it with Charts


Buenos Wednesdays! Buenos WTFs!

Hello Native American weaver woman.

native weaver

She's seen better days.

native weaver

Before there was PowerPoint, there was Say it with Charts:

say it with charts

I agree with barefoot Danny.

it's a great day

You don't need a lawyer, you need this record. Music to break a sub-lease. 

music to break a sub lease

What is inside the milk bottle? No really, what?

spoiled milk

Too much time focused on the eyelashes, not enough time focused on spelling.

hony bear

Last but not least, here's a great book of advice from 1987.

make a fortune buying discounted mortgages

As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

WTF Wednesday: Man Perm, Puppy in a Backpack, Misogyny


Good day, Wednesday! Good day, WTF!

Here we have a 70's Christmas album. 

tony marshall

Closeup on Tony and his perm in an Alex P Keaton outfit.

marshall

From 30 feet in the air, I'm goin' to sing!

i'm goin to sing

Some weird shit was happening in Hungary in the 50s.

strictly from hungary

This man is my spirit animal. Puppy in a knapsack.

lover's rain puppy in a backpack

Entire book on how to kick a ball.

how to punt

Ouch.

men who hate women and the women who love them

On a related note:

men's two faults

Last but not least, this happened an hour from here, but no big deal, the father just jumped on the bear and punched him in the face. Bear Attack Victim's Father: "I woke up and saw a bear dragging him."

As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions.

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Saturday, June 06, 2015

happy birthday, sugarhoney!


sugarhoney tot


today is the day our little sugarsnickers turns 1. it's also the day nachodoggy would have turned 12.

we were kind of hoping for a mini-nacho, and she has kind of delivered.

she does a couple things that nacho did, that the other dogs do not do.

she runs right down to the river and swims in circles in the exact same spot nacho used to do it. 

sugarhoney swim in circles


(see nacho swim in circles)

the other dogs wait on the bank until we throw something. nacho and sugar really seem to enjoy swimming, and get in for the joy of swimming.

if she is too hot on a hike, she lies down.

sugar cooling her underside


(nacho did the same thing)

of course, she is her own dog. she is so round, it's like she's made out of beach balls. i don't know if it's a female dog thing, but to me she is the shape of the olympic rings.

sugarhoney round

she is in love with pouncey. she follows him everywhere. she is constantly thinking of new and creative ways to vie for his attention. 

who bit my tail


she gets herself uphill from him and lets loose.

heeeey pouncey

she is not afraid to jump on the couch for a snuggle.

snugs


she is calm and gentle, she wags her tail when she meets new dogs and people, and she will come, sit, and lie down when she feels like it.

mainly she is just a little skunk who fits in riiiiight there.

three happy dogs

happy birthday, sugarchunks! today you will celebrate with a meatball!