Gah. Gah. GAH. First, you have three decorations picked from the pantry, highlighted by a grater that's been icepicked. Those would be bad enough, but then you see the blond Jesus, which I'm sure surprised Mary and Joseph a great deal. Plus, he looks like he's taking a swig of a mini-bottle. And he could also pass for the young Kal-El, before Marlon Brando sent him to Earth. Which, when you think about it, actually makes sense. Only General Zod would be evil enough to concoct such a fiendish "decoration."
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Various and sundry websites
- 1000 Awesome Things
Not retro, just awesome smile fodder. - Animal Rescue Site
Click a link, feed a dog. For real. - Ask Rea Maor
Scarily intelligent guy from Israel who likes my goofy website. - Bedazzled!
Pree. Mo. retro site. One of the best around. - Beyond the Roots of Lounge
"Plumbing the depths of shallow" most excellently. - Birmingham Rewound
Alabama's Magic City through the years. Great stuff. - Bowling Trophy
Trash or treasure? I say, "Both." - Classic Television Showbiz
Full-length episodes of old TV shows. Who needs cable? - Cute Overload! :)
If you can look at this site and not go "Awwww," you're inhuman. - Damn Interesting
The title says it all. - Dirty Jobs: Mike Rowe Answers
Mike Rowe for president! - Discontented Cookies
Meet my old blog, same as my new blog. Retro stuff, in other words. - Ephemera
Exploring the world of old paper. Or as I call it, every day of my life. Good stuff. - Everybody! Everybody!
Funniest site on the Internet. - Eye of the Goof
Dude's name is Mr. Bali Hai. What more do you need to know? - Found in Mom's Basement
A spiffy collection of vintage advertising, definitely worth bookmarking. - Future Crap
New blog by a loyal reader with a like appreciation for retro crap. Excellent stuff. - Get Go Retro
If I were a woman, I'd buy everything here. Curse you, Y Chromosome! - I Can Has Cheezburger
I'm hopelessly addicted to lol cats, or meme cats, or whatever you call 'em - I Has A Hotdog!
Canine counterpart to I Can Has Cheezburger - I'm Learning To Share
Gotta love a site that lists "Reasons to be cheerful." - Jenn Doucette
Happening author who likes my site. But don't hold that against her. - Lileks: The Institute of Official Cheer
He's living my life a few years of me. And better. - Martin Klasch
More superbly cool retro from someplace far beyond the Do What Now? manse. - Modern Mechanix
"Yesterday's tomorrow, today," in the form of some ultra-cool looks back at old magazines. Two steam-powered thumbs up. - Neato Coolville
Neato Coolville is a small place located at the junction of Imagination Street and Nostalgia Road. - Paleo-Future
A look into the future that never was. But should have been. - PCL LinkDump
PCL Linkdump. A whole bunch of great pop culture weirdness. - Plan59 :: 1950s Graphic Design :: Classic Car Art
I want to live then. - Pleasant Family Shopping
Retro grocery stores. You can get happily lost for hours here. - retrospace
Gilligan's uber-cool retro blog that you must--you MUST--read daily. - Shorpy.com
The 100-Year photo blog. Stupendous. - Station Bay
Excellent retro sign site - The Dino Lounge: Coolness Is Timeless
The Rat Pack lives, baby. - the good old days
This blogger is brave enough to try some of the recipes I post. - The Swank Pad
Lounge, kitsch and tiki from a secret lair in Tennessee - Trading Card T-shirts
More dangerously alluring t-shirts - Ultra Swank
Swankiness from Sweden. Sweden, people! - Who Really Cares, Anyway?
Sounds cynical, but it's not. Pretty cool retro (and other) stuff from a self-described "doughy, middle-aged guy." - Yard Sale Bloodbath
I want to hang with these people. Excellent yard sale blogging.
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The text says that this Baby Jesus display is "a reminder of the true meaning of Christmas," which apparently is to make your home as tacky as possible during the holidays. It also informs us that Jesus is wearing a "paper doily diaper." Is that really the best his mother could do? I mean, she got all those expensive gifts from those three nice gentlemen--you'd think she would have used some of that gold to send Joseph on a trip to the store for some Huggies. But no, she just had to blow it all on those stupid, sparkly sea urchins.
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Posted by: Jim Dunn | November 29, 2007 at 12:17 PM
That's it! These lovely decorations have truly inspired me to branch out in new and exciting areas this Christmas. I hope my kids don't mind if we skip the boring "traditional" tree this year and instead have a stack of glasses filled with ball bearings, surrounded by "gilded pods" being picked by roosters and topped with a cheese grater festooned with twigs.
Posted by: Laura | November 29, 2007 at 09:55 AM
There are just so many things wrong here - the traditional Christmas copper rooster, the about-to-break-any-minute-now "crystal tiered tree," the cheese grater, everything about that baby Jesus, but I think my favourite is the line "Here's a reminder of the true meaning of Christmas." So true.
Posted by: Bittergreen | November 29, 2007 at 09:15 AM
Why is Our Lord Jesus being attacked by sea-urchins? I don't seem to remember that part of the New Testament from Catholic School. Was it a Protestant thing?
Posted by: glen.h | November 29, 2007 at 12:53 AM