Smelly Furniture and Early Nineties Memories
This weekend me and my lovely husband went to a local monthly antique fair held down near Charlotte. We went with the goal of a bookcase. The Metrolina Expo is a big place, and the antique fair is huge. Unfortunately it was hard to find a bookcase because most of the booths who had them were not selling them because they themselves use them as displays. Long story short, several booths had this one kind of cabinet (labeled "pie safe") in several colors. Turns out it's new and built in Indonesia and just recently shipped over. They weathered the heck out of them so they look old. Other booths were asking $350, but this one guy offered me $250 for a buttery yellow one. It might be the first time I've gotten to utter the definitive phrase "I'll take it." If it wasn't the first time, it FELT like the first time. I felt like a grownup for a second, which was scary and cool.
So as we're loading it in the van, I noticed a strong chemical odor coming from the piece. The guy says when they shipped it over they fumigated them, and to let it air out for a few days and it would be fine. By the way, word to the wise, don't try to eat a funnel cake in the car. Powdered sugar was everywhere. I swear, we looked like inept cocaine traffickers. As soon as I got home I opened the windows, set up a fan in front of my smelly bookcase and Pledged the heck out of it. By the evening the smell had largely disappated, so I loaded it up with my books. My favorite part of moving is shelving my books. This is part of what makes me think I need to be a librarian. Organizing and displaying my books makes my soul happy, I can't explain it any other way. My new bookcase not only has the glass (bevelled no less!) panels in the front doors, but also on the sides as well. I carefully picked books to put in the side windows as well. So fun!
So yesterday morning I opened my bookcase and the dizzying stench of insecticide smacked me in the face. NOW MY BOOKS ALL SMELL LIKE IT TOO. Dammit.
Elsewhere on the internet:
This video right here, is the reason the late eighties, early nineties were the greatest time in pop culture history. Slow motion cartwheels, belted THONG leotards, hairsprayed poofy bangs (you know you had them), cheesy silhouette effects, and best of all-the mid-air frame freeze at the end. Can you even stand it? Is it any wonder Jessie Spano went on to such cinematic heights as Showgirls? And let's not overlook the sweet innocent beauty of Tiffani Amber Thiessen pre-boob job. And Lisa, who was in my opinion, quite possibly the prettiest of them all, but was relegated to the roll of a spoiled, bratty Jughead. Aaaah the days. I remember TBS would show like two back-to-back episodes of Saved by the Bell every afternoon after school. I could usually only stomach one, but afterwards I would watch my favorite nineties sitcom, A Different World. I can't wait for YouTube to dig up the Gilbert Hall Step competition performance. Now THAT will be some classic stuff. "A-B-C...D, E-F-G...*dum...dumdum* Gilbert Hall's the...one for me..".
Now turn your speakers up louder, like to eleven,and jam out to this. In my opinion, early nineties George Michael is just about as good as eighties Prince. And Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington were so fierce they make today's models look like spastic adolescent wannabes. You got to give whatcha give whatcha give...Super special bonus: Too Funky.
So as we're loading it in the van, I noticed a strong chemical odor coming from the piece. The guy says when they shipped it over they fumigated them, and to let it air out for a few days and it would be fine. By the way, word to the wise, don't try to eat a funnel cake in the car. Powdered sugar was everywhere. I swear, we looked like inept cocaine traffickers. As soon as I got home I opened the windows, set up a fan in front of my smelly bookcase and Pledged the heck out of it. By the evening the smell had largely disappated, so I loaded it up with my books. My favorite part of moving is shelving my books. This is part of what makes me think I need to be a librarian. Organizing and displaying my books makes my soul happy, I can't explain it any other way. My new bookcase not only has the glass (bevelled no less!) panels in the front doors, but also on the sides as well. I carefully picked books to put in the side windows as well. So fun!
So yesterday morning I opened my bookcase and the dizzying stench of insecticide smacked me in the face. NOW MY BOOKS ALL SMELL LIKE IT TOO. Dammit.
Elsewhere on the internet:
This video right here, is the reason the late eighties, early nineties were the greatest time in pop culture history. Slow motion cartwheels, belted THONG leotards, hairsprayed poofy bangs (you know you had them), cheesy silhouette effects, and best of all-the mid-air frame freeze at the end. Can you even stand it? Is it any wonder Jessie Spano went on to such cinematic heights as Showgirls? And let's not overlook the sweet innocent beauty of Tiffani Amber Thiessen pre-boob job. And Lisa, who was in my opinion, quite possibly the prettiest of them all, but was relegated to the roll of a spoiled, bratty Jughead. Aaaah the days. I remember TBS would show like two back-to-back episodes of Saved by the Bell every afternoon after school. I could usually only stomach one, but afterwards I would watch my favorite nineties sitcom, A Different World. I can't wait for YouTube to dig up the Gilbert Hall Step competition performance. Now THAT will be some classic stuff. "A-B-C...D, E-F-G...*dum...dumdum* Gilbert Hall's the...one for me..".
Now turn your speakers up louder, like to eleven,and jam out to this. In my opinion, early nineties George Michael is just about as good as eighties Prince. And Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington were so fierce they make today's models look like spastic adolescent wannabes. You got to give whatcha give whatcha give...Super special bonus: Too Funky.
posted by Connoisseur of Human Folly | 11:27 AM
3 Comments:
A glass-front piesafe? Weird. Is it vented? How are your pies supposed to cool?
Pie safes are cool, my MIL has one. As for the insecticide, if it seeped into the wood the only way to sequester it would be to put a couple of coats of polyurethane on it. Sadly I don't think that much can be done for the books though.
I think they call it a piesafe because it is based off a piesafe design. It has no vent holes, plus with the stench, I'm certain you wouldn't want to eat the pies once they'd been in there. It would certainly keep the bugs away, though.
And flipper just crushed my hopes and dreams. Thanks, man. ;P
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