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post #1 of 25
7/30/09 at 11:44am
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/ga...l?pagewanted=1
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post #2 of 25
7/30/09 at 5:24pm
Going for that Adams Family vibe.
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post #3 of 25
7/30/09 at 8:06pm
I love antique furniture but this gives it a bad name. I mean that looks like creepy crap to me. Seriously WTF is that matter with trend followers? They got dead shit in their house.
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post #4 of 25
7/30/09 at 8:14pm
I stopped reading it when I got to Williamsburg.
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post #5 of 25
7/30/09 at 8:36pm
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I hate any sort of media article that makes such things "palatable" to the masses.
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post #6 of 25
7/30/09 at 8:55pm
I didn't see any of them wearing a monocle, so you are still sui generis.
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post #7 of 25
7/31/09 at 12:32pm
I've been following Hovey's blog for a while. I'm not surprised that a cluttered collection of curiosities isn't popular here, in the cold land of glass and Knoll.
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post #8 of 25
7/31/09 at 12:55pm
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I've been following Hovey's blog for a while. I'm not surprised that a cluttered collection of curiosities isn't popular here, in the cold land of glass and Knoll.

i liked the picture (didn't read the article) but it kills it that she has a blog. in fact, it kills it that she owns a computer.
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post #9 of 25
7/31/09 at 5:12pm
It looks like everything in their homes should have a price tag on it. Sheesh.
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post #10 of 25
7/31/09 at 5:59pm
The things of these, people are worse upon, meeting .
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post #11 of 25
7/31/09 at 5:59pm

"Mr. Earbrass wonders irritatedly why anyone should have had a fantod stuffed and placed under a glass bell."

Kolecho once suggested I take the RJ cat to Deyrolle to have him stuffed.
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post #12 of 25
7/31/09 at 6:04pm
Petrarch had his cat mummified, or is that too antiquarian?

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post #13 of 25
7/31/09 at 6:17pm
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Petrarch had his cat mummified, or is that too antiquarian?[/IMG]

I think the article says that people have mummified dogs. ...

But if we calibrate the timing of this trend based on the New York Times' usual delay in identifying trends, have people really been doing this as a movement for the last 10 years?
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post #14 of 25
7/31/09 at 6:53pm
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I think the article says that people have mummified dogs. ...

But if we calibrate the timing of this trend based on the New York Times' usual delay in identifying trends, have people really been doing this as a movement for the last 10 years?

Collecting what your dog killed and hiding under your bed as a child and collecting limbs as an adult is not normal, nor eccentric; that guy is a psychopath. I know one of the other people they wrote about in this article and they're the biggest look-at-me attention whores you could imagine.

I think a lot of people have collected and designed their living spaces like this (well, minus the Ripley's Believe it or Not collection of human/animal remains) for quite some time so I'd put it closer to 5 years behind on this trend, although you and LK have been at it for much longer I'm sure.
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post #15 of 25
7/31/09 at 10:45pm
I like Holliser Hovey. I suspect she is a lesbian.
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