Interactive Story Time: The Raccoon and The Gator

/ May 31, 2011/ file under wtf, lawn ornaments/ 3 comments

Happy Tuesday, Lurkdom, where today is my Thursday. What’s awesome about this is that we’re that much closer to summer. I’d like to celebrate this with a lawn ornament. Now that the weather has decided to rise to a decent late-spring temperature*, I can enjoy all the tacky glory the residents put out. This one is particularly interesting because I

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Halloween Week!

/ October 25, 2010/ holidays, lawn ornaments/ 0 comments

It’s the Monday before Halloween and as work yet again kicks my ass, let me introduce you to my neighbors across the way and they’re Halloween decorations… I’m not sure what’s better: the gargoyle or the reaper. Have an awesome Halloween display? Send it to me! _____Last.fm hit of the day: Horror Movie Baby by The Texas Drag Queen Massacre

Zombies versus Ghouls, the Ultimate Showdown?

Ag2218/ October 21, 2010/ candy, ghouls, Halloween, lawn ornaments, Robert Englund, Romero, zombies/ 1 comments

Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Greetings! We are DAYS away from Halloween! I hope you are all as excited as I am! I also hope you’ve been enjoying all the zombie goodness, tacky lawn ornaments (who won best comment caption, Alicia?), horrible children costumes, and more. There’s more

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Halloweenie Fun, Lawn Ornament Style

/ October 12, 2010/ awesomeness, holidays, lawn ornaments/ 7 comments

If you’ve lurked for a while, you know I have this thing about lawn ornaments. They’re usually tacky and totally filled of awesome. Halloween is no exception to this, especially since in recent years, we have to outfit every marketable holiday with lawn stuff. Words escape me on this demon clown lawn ornament. Really. I’m hoping you guys will do

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Rockin Lawn Ornament Fun

/ August 31, 2010/ dating myself, file under wtf, lawn ornaments/ 4 comments

I know what you’re thinking: Why is there a raisin wearing shades and sneakers? Because it’s a California Raisin, of course. And since I live in a weird-ass town, the housing complex down the street showcases three of these bad boys on their patch of dirt lawn. This, plus the other two, are dancing their way far from an alligator

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