Random Silly Things

Instead of a real post, a post about silly things I've seen in the past few months -- or at least silly things that I've seen and photographed. The world is fully of silly things that I've failed to photograph.

The Gentleman Caller visited on the weekend of Halloween. We made sugar skulls in honor of Dia De Los Muertos. Clearly, we did not have the appropriate tools to decorate in the appropriate fashion. Nonetheless, we had fun. Mine are the four on the left, his are the four on the right.:On my trip abroad, I was thrilled to see the English version of my favorite 51 cent souvenir in the International Slavery Museum.:

That's the flattening penny machine. My only regret here was that I did not have the English coin to use this. When we ran into a machine at Shakespeare's birthplace, however, I begged the coin off of the Gentleman Caller, who had accompanied me on my sojourn. How could I pass up an impression of Shakespeare's birthplace on a flattened pence?

Back home, in a tchotchke shop, bobbleheads.:
From left to right, we have Abraham Lincoln, Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton.

Elsewhere, we have (from right to left), George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.:Do you think you could get every president and First Lady in bobblehead form? I'm sure you could. The intertubes might be the place to "research" this matter, but I'm too lazy and tired to bother. Besides, it's much more fun to find them in the wild like this.

I also spotted a bobblehead of the King, Elvis Presley.:Somehow, the older, puffier, drug-addled, sequin-jumpsuited Elvis seems a very appropriate subject for a bobblehead.

This, on the other hand, seems a bit -- I don't know -- would "sacrelige" be too strong a word?:

Jimi Hendrix. Although, now that I think of it, perhaps a Janis Joplin bobblehead might be a good idea, except the bobble would have to be at the hips in order to replicate her particular tilting dance moves.

Next to the Hendrix bobblehead sat this lovely Hendrix lunchbox:

My brother would totally buy one for my nephew, then use it himself.

I confess, this is one thing I regret not investing in:

Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West, in bobblehead form. She is my favorite iconic witch, originating that green face and all black outfit as the icon of a witch. Plus, she was deliciously nasty.

Going back to Janis Joplin for a moment, I am reminded of the silliest thing that I have seen in recent months was not in a gift shop or my own kitchen. The silliest thing that I have seen was on YouTube (imagine that!). A duet between Joplin and Tom Jones. Yes, THAT Tom Jones, not the History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Here is your earworm for the day.: