From one of my favorite Craigslist “for sale” postings on The Upper East Side: Click on screenshot below to see entire Craigslist posting. I forgot about Mr. Peanut but looking at him now I think he’s pretty cool!  Also, his name is Mr. Peanut.  Not some cheesy pun on peanut, but just what he is! [...]

Anisette, photo via Vlassis13 Did you or anyone you know ever have the book “Unknown Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll“ by Richie Unterberger?  The book catalogs and describes some of the most influential and original, often insane, musicians from the 1950′s – 1990′s who for one reason or another never attained mainstream success or fame, [...]

I saw this antique, supposedly German mannequin head for sale on eBay several months ago (the listing is long gone.)  It doesn’t look like any other antique mannequin head I’ve seen. Not that I was looking for one- they just pop up now and then in the categories I like to search. Images: Top row [...]

I saw this for sale on Overstock.com several years ago and thought it was so weird I dragged the images to my desktop. I just came across them again this week.   Yeesh, apparently this post is getting a lot of traffic. You can get the creepy man’s arm pillow at Amazon!

Editor’s note: I read this essay by Momus (a.k.a. Nick Currie) in 2000 on his website (now located at www.imomus.com) where he has an archive of essays on a vast spectrum of topics. This essay is the philosophy of The Fakeways Institute, which investigated Folk Art and added to the pot. Here is a little [...]