http://greengabbro.net/2004/02/12/tchotchke-fever/ rock out to the apparatus Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:25:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://greengabbro.net/2004/02/12/tchotchke-fever/#comment-1159 Rana Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:54:00 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2004/02/12/tchotchke-fever/#comment-1159 I vote “c”. In my current office I have 1) a pot of fake flowers, 2) a tacky brass lamp, 3) a calendar from some charity, 4) a teddy bear that came in a package from my parents, 5) a cheesy postcard, 6) a weird silver fung shui spiral hangy thing, 7) a New Mexican art print I fished out of a dumpster several years ago. None of these are things I’d have deliberately brought into my actual living space (well, maybe the print, once). It’s astoundingly cheesy in a way my at-home clutter never manages. I vote “c”. In my current office I have 1) a pot of fake flowers, 2) a tacky brass lamp, 3) a calendar from some charity, 4) a teddy bear that came in a package from my parents, 5) a cheesy postcard, 6) a weird silver fung shui spiral hangy thing, 7) a New Mexican art print I fished out of a dumpster several years ago. None of these are things I’d have deliberately brought into my actual living space (well, maybe the print, once).
It’s astoundingly cheesy in a way my at-home clutter never manages.

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