Obscure MemorabiliaAt home my other half has a broken piece of a piano. Just a single hammer from a broken piano. And yet this twisted bit of wood and metal is a piece from the piano that they flung in the TV series Northern Exposure. We've also got some gardening tools from the first series of Big Brother.
What wierd stuff do you own that has a history?
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chthonic, Thu 4 Nov 2004, 8:19)
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Memorabilia that Reflects My Tendency Towards KleptomaniaFour Sets of pilfered silverware (knife, spoon, fork)from the no-longer-existing restaurant that used to be on the top floor of one of the world trade center buildings.
My boyfriend and I had gotten toasted and proceeded to see how many times we could get the Maitre'D to replace our silverware (oops, dropped it on the floor....hey, this set is dirty. . . . I'm jewish and need a different set for each dish).
I walked out of there, my purse clinking and clanking like a kitchen drawer being opened and closed over and over.
Didn't think much of it, at the time, came home off the train absolutely blasted, put the silverware away.
Was watching the news one morning - had called in dead (ha ha, just sick) was eating my cereal and looked at my spoon and smiled to myself as I recognized the embossing on it. Then looked up to see the restaurant I had eaten in just a few weeks before being blown to bits by terrorists.
I reverently washed and polished the silverware after that and put it away. It somehow felt wrong to eat off of it.
When we nuke Fallujah, maybe I'll bury the silverware in the backyard in a little ceremony asking the heaven's above to please please please impeach Bush.
(, Mon 8 Nov 2004, 16:30, Reply)
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