Rob Walker's Blog, page 55
September 15, 2009
Uncola Glass
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Jen Collins, here.]
For my 9th birthday, I begged my mother to take me to the iron-on decal store at the Meadow Glen Mall. I had seen some older boy wearing a sweatshirt with a glittery rip-off of the Superman "S" shield saying SUPERBRAT, and I had to have one. By the time I convinced my mother, they had run out of the decal. So I settled for a glitter Garfield on a royal blue pullover hoodie. I was crazy about Garfield — he loved lasagna and...
September 14, 2009
Round Box
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Tim Carvell, here.]
On December 17, 1948, the Humboldt twins entered the world, Jerome screaming, Luke laughing. This pattern held. Jerome grew up to be as petulant, difficult and miserable as Luke was cheery, optimistic and polite.
Their father, Max, owned the Humboldt Tiny Decorative Box Corp., the main employer in Osipee, New Hampshire. He grew to hope Luke might one day take over the business. After all, Luke loved crafts — at the age of nine, ...
A note regarding the Kentucky Dish
In the course of inventing Significance for this object, Dean Haspiel's story describes said dish being shattered. This might lead some to believe that we are selling the broken shards of a dish. We are not. We are selling the actual, intact, dish. It is not broken.
Thank you.
Weekly Project Update
Rope/wood Monkey Figurine (Story by Kevin Brockmeier) in new hometown.
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $78.82
Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $1,781.70
Coming up this week: Objects with Significance added by Jen Collins, David Shields, and more. Posting soon: Tim Carvell.
Still on auction: Objects with Significance added by Annalee Newitz, Dean Haspiel, Thomas McNeely, and Aimee Bender, in our eBay shop.
Recent reactions from elsewhere: The Chicago Tribune has a thoughtful writeup a
