stuff i didn't buy my son

Joshua withthe King of Pop(corn)

A Collectory from Dr. Z’s House of Funat Happy Rabbits Farm

Wilkins-O’Riley Zinn, Aesthetic RecyclerCome good times or bad, there is always a market for things nobody needs.

• Kim Hubbard

It’s so useless, it’s perfect!Let’s get it!!

• Overheard, Christmas 2010

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

• Charles Dickens

Some stuff we choose to collect. Other stuff people think we ought to collect.• Student about her passions, November, 2003

Seriously?

Seriously?Still wondering.

If there is anything I hate, it is collecting.• William James

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.• Ursula Andress

Now I am obsessed with collectingplatypus paraphernalia.

• Trevor Dunn

I didn’t play at collecting.No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

• Edward G. Robinson about his cigar band collection

Apartment dogs.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. • A.R. Ammons

I really dig you!

Look for the ridiculous in

everything and you will find it.

• Jules Renard

Gee, I thought I was a big girl!

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.• Wayne Thiebaud

Everyone loves plush toys.• 60 Minutes

November 12, 2007

It’s very scary to look around this room and see

all these animals have their plastic eyeballs staring back at you.

• Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn’s House of Style, November 2007, about a woman’s

collection of stuffed dogs

Just say neigh.

Like so many Americans, she

was trying to construct a life

that made sense from things she

found in gift shops.

• Kurt Vonnegut about Billy Pilgrim’s

mother in Slaughterhouse-Five

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window,Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

• Paul McCartney

Why, yes, my dear, you

disarm me too.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the

invisible.• Oscar Wilde

Footstool. It better not be leather.

Communism doesn’t work

because people like to own

stuff.• Frank Zappa

I confess. I bought this for myself after passing it by for my son. Just a quarter—what

collector of oddities could resist? Not me.

You can make things out of a lot of stuff. That’s the

problem with saving things.• Chris, 2007

Everything is made of hidden

stuff.•Ralph Waldo

Emerson

To discover what normal means, you have to surf a

tide of weirdness.• Charlotte Rampling

In•Finito!Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

• E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web