Etsystasy: Sequin Fruit Banana

Since someone should be making money off this blog, it might as well be the people who bring me the greatest amount of entertainment in life: Etsy sellers. Whatever you want, it really is on Etsy. It's like the mall when I was a kid. I don't buy anything. I just hang out. But Etsy has cooler stuff than the mall. I mean, look at this sequined banana from seller StraySquirrels. Or buy it if you have $3.95 burning a hole in your pocket. Can you believe it's only $3.95?

Vintage '80s Weird South Carolina Anti-Satanism T-Shirt

 

You find the most amazing things if you go on Etsy and search "satan." Try it. This shirt is totally real and seems to be a relic of a particularly frightening chapter in the 1980s. Obviously, I want it.

The description is as follows:

Vintage '80s t-shirt from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy. Normal looking logo on the breast area, and on the back is a large image featuring black silhouettes with wolf heads dancing around a giant horned skull. Shirt is a 50/50 poly cotton blend. In very good condition other than a few small holes on the left side. Labeled size XL, closer to a modern large. Please see measurements below.
 

BIPL Review of Magas

L Hath No Fury (A Tight-Pantsy Drew Mystery) by Leslie Ann Henkel is a "cozy murder mystery" set in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I thought it was a zine when I ordered it from Etsy, but the slender volume informs me that it is a maga. Zines are old fashioned. Self-published DIY periodicals are now called magas. I have no way of knowing if this is meant as a joke, but it is certainly funny.

Joking aside, L Hath No Fury lampoons young and fashionable Brooklynites in the intimate sort of way that only someone of that tribe could achieve. If there is a flaw in it for me, it's that it is full of distractingly incomprehensible illustrations and slang ... um, much like Williamsburg itself. (Couldn't resist.) Maybe that's not a flaw at all. A lot of exposition takes the form of fictive Wikipedia posts and the like, which is pretty fun. Also, the actual mystery is compelling enough for me to want to get the second installment D.I.Y. or Die! in order to find out what happens.

It all has something to do with something called Dear Drunk Girl, a dead graffiti artist, and a mysterious North Face parka. Go here if this sort of thing amuses you: www.deardrunkgirl.etsy.com