My Assimilation Into Suburban Monoculture is Almost Complete

This morning, on my weekly hike to the neighborhood farmer's market, I took a short detour to Michaels to buy paint and was accidentally sucked into "the rapidly growing pastime of lighted villages" vortex. There, I picked up the "Mama Cocina" porcelain doohickey shown above ...just because it was so damned cute I couldn't leave the store without it.

If I start scrap-booking, just fucking shoot me.

Comments

[julia]

Aw, no, I hate to do this to you, but Michaels is owned by the Wylys.

AC Moore, on the other hand, is not.

It's also cheaper.

[Roxanne]

I don't think we have an AC Moore anywhere near here. I should've waited 'til Monday and gone to Utrecht.

[Pete]

No I'm sorry never mind 'scrapbooking' ( which sounds like some underground gay perversion like 'cottaging')

you've got grounds for immediate execution right there.

whilst i can understand the appeal of kitsch if not agree with it, for gods sake that's not even well done.

Next it'll be Lladro clowns and Swarski crystal animals
http://www.boxofporcelain.com/Lladro/Lladroclowns.htm

http://www.atullett.co.uk/trolleyed/6/index.htm

Then it's just a short step to wandering around town with a shopping cart full of plastic bottles buying cat food for pets you don't have.

You have my pity , please seek help

[Chris]

Actually, what it reminded me of was the day, back when I lived in San Francisco, that I stood at the corner of 16th Street and Potrero, the day after Rachel and I bought our first pair of cell phones, and thought: "Oh, there'll be a Jamba Juice there! Cool!" At that moment I had to relinquish all claim to being a radical, though it would at least be fivw years before I actually went to a Starbucks.

[Michael Hussey]

You're back!

[eRobin]

I tell you - scrapbooking is FUN!! I haven't had time to do it in over a year but I remember it fondly. It's like quilting with paper. Paper!

[sylamore, Memphis]

I have one of those, too! But the little tacos taste like shit.