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Latest in Tacky
Top Tacky Links
- All My Life for Sale - by John D. Freyer
- Ask Miss Abigail
- The Belly Dancing Librarian
- The Bible according to Legos (The Brick Testament)
- Big Things in Canada
- Bob Cantor -- check out the pencil sharpener collection!
- Cakewrecks
- Christmas, Tacky
- Tacky Christmas Lights of Northern Virginia
- http://uglychristmaslights.com/
- The ultimate guide to tacky Christmas decorations
- World of Kitsch - Kitschmas 2003
- Bright Lights of Xmas - "Let's put the X back in Xmas!"
- Miracle of 34th Street, Hampden, Baltimore
- And of course, the Christmas section of "Seasonal Tacky"
- Completely Wacky Stuff
- Cap'n Wacky's Boatload of Fun
- Found Magazine
- Heaven and Hell Car
- Humanclock.com - Check out 8:08 a.m.
- Institute for Adaptive Reuse
- Jammin' Johns - "Music to your rears!"
- Jesus of the Week
- Julie's Tacky Treasures: A popcultmag.com Website of the Week
- Jurassic Lark (article in the Washington Post about Mark Cline)
- Kevin Savetz's refrigerator magnets
- Kinetic Sculpture Race - American Visionary Art Museum
- Laughing Squid
- The Museum of Weird Consumer Culture
- Pantheon de la Kétainerie
- Roadchix
- Roadside America - I never travel without consulting this site!
- Scary Squirrel World
- Tacky Living
- Thrift Store Art
- Ugly Dress.com - Archive of the World's Ugliest Bride's Maids Dresses
- Warrior Librarian
- World's Largest: a documentary on roadside attractions
- Julie's Tacky Treasures was a Yahoo.com Daily Pick for September 14, 2002, but the link no longer works.
- Yard Sale Search
- Yard Sale Queen
- Yarn Car
Tacky Stories
- Antique Dealer Sick of Appraising Smurf Collections
- Engel in America: Masters of the Dance
- Do you know a hometown hero? I do. His name is Stan Fowler.
- Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
- Metafilter.com
- Street Sounds: Why Musicians Around Town Take Their Songs To the Sidewalk (Washington Post)
Quotes
Haiku for aging baby boomers:
Where are my glasses?
Eaten without bifocals,
My food tastes blurry.
--Julie Mangin, 2000
"People, when Columbus discovered this country, it was plum full of nuts and berries. But I'm right here to tell you, the berries is just about all gone." -- Uncle Dave Macon
"Standing right beside American know-how is American eccentricity. Surely, it deserves equal respect and acknowledgement." --Bill Griffith (creator of the comic strip "Zippy the Pinhead").
Mangin's First Law of Tourist Behavior: "A moving tour group will expand to the width of the sidewalk."
Cosmetology is the study of the role make-up plays in the plan of the universe.