Top Tacky Treasures
The Mark Eden Bust Developer, the Popener, a rubber band vest, and more

Nouveau Tacky
Jesus playing football, a Chairman Mao cigarette lighter, and other delightfully tasteless objects

Tacky Places
Foamhenge, Cooter's Place, Planet Wayside, and other whimsical places

Tacky Topics
The Tacky Treasures Road Show, Mike the Headless Chicken, big heads, art cars, salt & pepper shakers, ballerinas abuse

Seasonal Tacky
Naked witch earrings, Love Kubes™, kinky cuffs, pooping reindeer, Santa piñata, and other holiday treats

Books & Records
Why not eat insects, the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra, and more

Tacky Links

Latest in Tacky - Top Tacky - Stories - Quotes - Miscellaneous

New!

• Kinetic Sculpture Race, May 3, 2008
• Street Sounds: Why Musicians Around Town Take Their Songs To the Sidewalk (Washington Post)

Top Tacky Links

• All My Life for Sale - by John D. Freyer
• Ask Miss Abigail
• Bad Human Factors Designs
• A Baltimore Christmas Carol - Dickens' classic, set in Baltimore
• The Belly Dancing Librarian
• The Bible according to Legos
• Big Things in Canada
• Bob Cantor -- check out the pencil sharpener collection!
• Christmas, Tacky
  • Tacky Christmas Lights of Northern Virginia
  • http://uglychristmaslights.com/
  • The ultimate guide to tacky Christmas decorations
  • World of Kitsch - Kitschmas 2003
  • Kitsch Kittens: A Kitschmas Carol
  • 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"
• Church Sign Generator
• Completely Wacky Stuff
• eGad
• Elite Designers Against IKEA
• End of the Internet
• Etiquette Hell...the Internet's Largest Repository of Bad Etiquette
• The Film Crew Online - from those wacky folks who brought you Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Found Magazine
• FreetheGnomes.com - Stop Oppressive Gardening!
• Funny Strange
• Heaven and Hell Car
• Humanclock.com - Check out 8:08 a.m.
• Institute for Adaptive Reuse
• Jammin' Johns: Combining the comfort of a finely crafted bathroom accoutrement with the legendary looks of your favorite guitars
• 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
• Laughing Squid
• The Museum of Weird Consumer Culture
• Pantheon de la Kétainerie
• Pull My Finger
• Roadchix
• Roadside America - I never travel without consulting this site!
• Scary Squirrel World
• Tacky Living
• Tampon Henge
• Thrift Store Art
• Toilet Seat Art
• Ugly Dress.com - Archive of the World's Ugliest Bride's Maids Dresses
• Warrior Librarian
• Weekly planner by Robert McGarry
• Who Would Buy That?
• World's Largest: a documentary on roadside attractions
• www.popcultmag.com
• www.whatismoving.com
• Yahoo.com Daily Pick for September 14, 2002
• Yard Sale Search
• Yard Sale Queen
• Yarn Car

Tacky Stories

• Armed Bears, Kids Repugnant
• Antique Dealer Sick of Appraising Smurf Collections
• www.dispenseronline.it
• Engel in America: Masters of the Dance
• Do you know a hometown hero? I do. His name is Stan Fowler.
• Alexander the Great Mountain - they're planning a Big Head in Macedonia! Read what people are saying about it on the Beeb web site.
• Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
• Metafilter.com

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.

Miscellaneous

• American Experience - Mount Rushmore
• Big Ernie
• Enchanted Castle Studio
• Guy Clark
• Ken Waldman
• Blake Boatworks
• http://www.sablosky.com/
• TomPaine.com
• Liz Roll Photography
• No Crack