Souvenirs

Souvenir: Hatchet Hannah Bobble Head

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

One of the angriest icons in America is Hannah Duston, pioneer mom. Turning on her captors, she killed and scalped a dozen Abenaki Indians with a tomahawk in 1697, and two statues were erected to commemorate her hacking spree: one in her home town of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and the other at the massacre site in [...]

No Second-Rate Souvenirs For The Second Amendment

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

We recently visited the gift shop at the NRA National Firearms Museum, which claims to stock over 500 gun publications, more than any other store in the U.S., and, therefore, most likely, the world. It also has a wall of replica guns and paint ball weapons for sale, but these each cost in the [...]

Souvenir: Argentine Corkscrew

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Proof of the continuing and universal appeal of lusty gag souvenirs: We received this photo taken last week of a gift shop window in Bariloche, Argentina, a tourist mecca in the heart of the Patagonia region filled with chocolate shops and hippies.
The figure on the left bears an uncanny resemblance to the cactus cowboy we [...]

Souvenir: Naughty Cactus Sighting

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

The Cactus Penis Planter, a classic southwestern souvenir stand item that once perched on equal footing with rattlesnake heads and scorpions in lucite, has done a slow fade from the nation’s gift stands. It’s been a while since we’ve seen one. We suspected the politically prickly novelties were a thing of the past, like [...]

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