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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Kleenex Girl Head
Allergy season is in FULL TILT here in LA. I never had allergies before but for the past few days my eyes have been wetter than the Mississippi and my nose is flowing like Niagara Falls. The only...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1950′s Handpainted Poodle Wastebasket
This past weekend LA was in bloom with garage sales. I’ve tried resisting these for years, especially since opening The Allee Willis Museum Of Kitsch at AWMOK.com, as not only do I have the thousands...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1950′s Handpainted Poodle Kleenex Holder
As I said yesterday, I’m not one to randomly collect poodles just because they’re an endearing and iconic symbol of the first totally modern decade to which I am ever beholden, the 1950′s. But it...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Beatles Hair Pomade
I wasn’t even sure what this was when I saw it on eBay a few years ago but it looked like it couldn’t possibly have been actual sanctioned Beatles swag, and that alone kicks it into a very high level...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Bath Thing
One of my favorite genres of kitsch is products from China with translations that have run hideously amuck. It’s not even that the products are bad – though in this case I may have hit the jackpot –...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Kleenex Man Size Tissues Pillow
Are men’s noses really snottier than women’s? Do they run more? Does a woman with a bad cold honestly deserve a smaller size tissue than a man with the same malady? According to this decades old...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Never Too Much Madonna Inn
Heading out of LA last Thursday on the 5 was a mess. An overturned 20-wheeler heading south spilled oranges, lemons and an entire tank of fuel, cloggin up both sides of the freeway like cholestrol in...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Birthdaying at the Madonna Inn – Part 1
Bright and early the weekend before Thanksgiving Prudence Fenton and I hopped in the mustache van and drove up the coast to San Luis Obispo. If you’ve never been to The Madonna Inn there, drive, fly,...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Birthdaying at the Madonna Inn – Part 2 –...
As many times as I’ve stopped at The Madonna Inn, I’ve never stayed overnight until a trip to celebrate my birthday a couple of weekends ago. I’ve always fantasized about staying there. How could I...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Abbey Rents Bedpan Ashtray
I can think of a lot of things to rent from Abbey Rents but I prefer them to be more in the mode of party supplies than bedpans. I’m not too big on being sick to begin with. I’ve been on crutches a few...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Kleenex Girl Head
Allergy season is in FULL TILT here in LA. I never had allergies before but for the past few days my eyes have been wetter than the Mississippi and my nose is flowing like Niagara Falls. The only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1950’s Handpainted Poodle Wastebasket
This past weekend LA was in bloom with garage sales. I’ve tried resisting these for years, especially since opening The Allee Willis Museum Of Kitsch at AWMOK.com, as not only do I have the thousands...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1950′s Handpainted Poodle Kleenex Holder
As I said yesterday, I’m not one to randomly collect poodles just because they’re an endearing and iconic symbol of the first totally modern decade to which I am ever beholden, the 1950’s. But it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Beatles Hair Pomade
I wasn’t even sure what this was when I saw it on eBay a few years ago but it looked like it couldn’t possibly have been actual sanctioned Beatles swag, and that alone kicks it into a very high level...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Bath Thing
One of my favorite genres of kitsch is products from China with translations that have run hideously amuck. It’s not even that the products are bad – though in this case I may have hit the jackpot –...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Kleenex Man Size Tissues Pillow
Are men’s noses really snottier than women’s? Do they run more? Does a woman with a bad cold honestly deserve a smaller size tissue than a man with the same malady? According to this decades old...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Never Too Much Madonna Inn
Heading out of LA last Thursday on the 5 was a mess. An overturned 20-wheeler heading south spilled oranges, lemons and an entire tank of fuel, cloggin up both sides of the freeway like cholestrol in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Birthdaying at the Madonna Inn – Part 1
Bright and early the weekend before Thanksgiving Prudence Fenton and I hopped in the mustache van and drove up the coast to San Luis Obispo. If you’ve never been to The Madonna Inn there, drive, fly,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Birthdaying at the Madonna Inn – Part 2 –...
As many times as I’ve stopped at The Madonna Inn, I’ve never stayed overnight until a trip to celebrate my birthday a couple of weekends ago. I’ve always fantasized about staying there. How could I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Abbey Rents Bedpan Ashtray
. I can think of a lot of things to rent from Abbey Rents but I prefer them to be more in the mode of party supplies than bedpans. I’m not too big on being sick to begin with. I’ve been on crutches a...
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