{"id":35125,"date":"2012-01-26T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=35125"},"modified":"2012-01-26T11:58:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:58:47","slug":"allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-as-generic-as-it-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-as-generic-as-it-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis\u2019 Kitsch O\u2019 The Day \u2013 As Generic As It Gets"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

When it comes to kitsch, there’s always an excellent chance of it thriving in a 99\u00a2 store. Even more so when it’s a penny less:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Once it’s one cent less than the kitsch standard, there’s a guaranteed level of cuckoo-ness going on in many of the specially made products that suck up shelf space like muscles on a reef at these places.\u00a0There’s so much wrong about this particular product that makes it makes my eyeballs spin. \u00a0First, I always love when essential information about the capabilities of the product are hidden once the product is inserted in its plastic packaging.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Also nice when the product name itself is covered once the product is secure in the package.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Even better is when the product in use is illustrated and there’s no clear connection between the graphic and the product. \u00a0I don’t know what this leather-like attache case and accesories are supposed to show about the prowess of contact cement. \u00a0Was the entire set fabricated using it?<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Even better is the implication of the second “use”: gluing together an entire dining room set!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

The directions on the back stress \u00a0to always avoid “cintact” with eyes.<\/p>\n

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As far as the rest of the jumble in the directions, I thought I was buying contact cement and not plaster…<\/p>\n

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The uses of plaster and contact cement are quite different. And I didn’t know that there was a materials such as “wood leather” or “cotton yamed”. \u00a0And I’m always wild about a misplaced comma as in “same or, various substances”. All of which leads me to conclude that this kitsch find couldn’t be more of this if it tried:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to kitsch, there’s always an excellent chance of it thriving in a 99\u00a2 store. Even more so when it’s a penny less: Once it’s one cent less than the kitsch standard, there’s a guaranteed level of cuckoo-ness going on in many of the specially made products that suck up shelf space like … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,239,87,193,81],"tags":[61,2979,2978,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-35125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-alert","category-crafts","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-products","tag-allee-willis","tag-cheesy-products","tag-contact-cement","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}