Since my last few posts have been about creatures taking their pants off, a look at this shaker set seems appropriate: As a set, they have an interesting binary-oppositional relationship. I’m tempted to suggest that they replicate the insistence of the shaker miniverse on dividing things into opposite pairs: salt and pepper, black and white,Continue reading “Gendered Elimination?”
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For Those Who Might Like a Fantastic Fork (or a Satisfying Spoon)
In the salt-and-pepper miniverse, it’s not only animals who wear human-type clothing. Other objects can do it also. Here, for instance, are a nattily dressed fork and spoon:In addition to wearing aprons–certainly an appropriate garment for a pair of kitchen utensils–they have also grown arms and legs and even the barest beginnings of faces, thus,Continue reading “For Those Who Might Like a Fantastic Fork (or a Satisfying Spoon)”
A Lobster Dressed for Lobster Fishing.
Here’s an addition to my series of posts on animals in human clothing that introduces a new hat but begins with a memory of some old ones. Some time ago, I wrote a post on this blog about these lobsters and their participation in their own death by boiling (see earlier post here): Back then,Continue reading “A Lobster Dressed for Lobster Fishing.”
Eggs Past and/or Eggs to Come
Once more, no eggs are visible in this salt and pepper shaker set But clearly, you can’t have a chicken (or a rooster) without an egg first, right? And if you have a chicken (and, of course, a rooster) then there is a good possibility that you might some time soon have an egg orContinue reading “Eggs Past and/or Eggs to Come”
The Invisible Egg(s)
In this series of posts, I’ve been focussing on what I have identified as eleven eggs that are part of my salt-and-pepper shaker set collection. But it has just occurred to me that there might, in fact, be twelve, or even more, albeit more implied than actually seeable. Consider this set: It is, clearly, aContinue reading “The Invisible Egg(s)”
The Last Egg
The last egg in my collection of eleven has also appeared previously on this blog in “Go Withs“. It is half of this set: It is a golden egg, and so it goes with a goose. In the light if the relative size of the egg and the goose, and if I am right inContinue reading “The Last Egg”
Eggs, Numbers Nine and Ten
The ninth and tenth eggs in my collection have appeared in a previous entry in this blog–Cute Newt–in which I talk about their intriguing relationship to the American politician Newt Gingrich. These shakers have moved significantly away from the more-or-less real-life situations of shakers three through eight, as described in my previous three posts: noContinue reading “Eggs, Numbers Nine and Ten”
Hatching
Eggs seven and eight: This pair has chicks busting out all over, none of them in complicated footwear. they seem much too big for their shells–perhaps as much too big as the pair of about-to-hatch chicks of a couple of posts ago look too small for their shells. But too big or too small, allContinue reading “Hatching”
One of Chicken’s Children Got Shoes
The fifth or sixth egg of the eleven in my salt and pepper shaker collection is most notable for its footwear: This freak of nature was born with its shoes already on, it seems. How the shoes got inside the shell is unclear–unless perhaps, those are not shoes at all, but this particular chick’s actualContinue reading “One of Chicken’s Children Got Shoes”
The Moment of Birth (Ab Ovo)
These eggs show some apparently miniature chicks in the process of bursting through their shells: They thus represent the transition from purely abstract, as the eggs in my last post, to cute. I’m not sure exactly why, but they even seem to be smiling–very optimistic and upbeat as they enter their new world, wings flappingContinue reading “The Moment of Birth (Ab Ovo)”
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