{"id":5024,"date":"2010-05-16T22:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T06:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2010-05-16T22:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T06:52:22","slug":"all-things-icky-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/all-things-icky-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"All Things Icky II"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few people have cited a certain blogger as someone who would annoy me, so tonight I checked her out. The thing that struck me most was her hideous collection of claw-themed jewelry.<\/p>\n

Why the fucking claws?! (Somehow I feel this question woud sound more \u00a0 beautiful and heartfelt in French but I don’t speak French. Can anyone help translate??)<\/p>\n

Now that skull imagery is somewhat passe, the trend has moved to animal skulls. If I see another fucking brass bird-skull necklace, I’m going to strangle someone with it. Bird-skulls, huge claws, talons, just take them all away. Mom of Shoes has a monstrous claw pendent by the ubiquitous Pamela Love<\/strong><\/a> and so does every Clueless Goth Kid and tattooed fashion model a la Erin Wasson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I was so annoyed by the claw-laden blogger that I went to etsy<\/strong> and typed “claw.” Try it! A huge volume of icky claw-things is available, many rivaling Mom’s $700 pendent in stark ugliness. I was particularly impressed by a store called Loved to Death<\/strong><\/a>, where I came across these “muskrat mandible” earrings.<\/p>\n

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And I realized that the blogger girl owns an identical pair<\/em>!<\/p>\n

What is the point in adorning yourself in stupid faux taxidermy? Why do so many people follow these trends? When can we go back to appreciating objects that are life-affirming rather than dead<\/a> or faux-dead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"