Comments | absinthe: A very important story; i.e. "I guess she collected them."

absinthe

A very important story; i.e. "I guess she collected them."

Jan 16, 2006 00:59

A month ago I visited my parents. The day before I arrived, their half-dead-for-ages neighbor finally shuffled off this mortal coil into the eternal land of woolen slippers, deafening televisions, and boiled cabbages. She had penguins in her window. The entire time I was there, I coveted these penguins like nothing else ( Read more... )

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buscemi January 16 2006, 18:17:06 UTC

That sounds like a Throbbing Gristle song. (Ok, maybe it's just me...)

absinthe January 17 2006, 05:54:25 UTC

Only if said penguin box contained bits of the dead woman's melted face.

devonsego January 17 2006, 02:12:56 UTC

I'm not sure if that's hard core or disturbing. Maybe it's just hard-core disturbing. Yeah. Does your mom still collect freaky porcelain clowns?

absinthe January 17 2006, 05:53:39 UTC

I don't know if she's gotten any recently, but they're still crawling around somewhere in the background. Her latest insane collection-- what I believe to be a particularly Iowa-related-psychosis-- is dinnerware that resembles corn. No shit.

devonsego January 18 2006, 01:37:41 UTC

Weird! My mom finally hit psycho-senility when she stopped collecting dog stuff and started decorating bathrooms with ducks. Did I ever tell you about the toothbrush holder where you ram your toothbrush down the gullet of four baby chicks? Spooky.

subverseshun January 18 2006, 07:27:43 UTC

"It was full of this dead woman's penguins."

You wouldn't think this sentence would be as comical as it is.

toosicktopray February 21 2006, 15:37:04 UTC

... only in Iowa. It upset me that you came through Eastern Iowa just AFTER I moved to Des Moines ...