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Friday, August 3, 2007

A Handful of Love

posted by on August 3 at 11:55 AM

A postcard from the Ashton-Drake Galleries showed up in my house – I don’t know where it came from – and it is creeping me out. Bad. Here’s the picture on the front:

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Is this a preemie doll? Is it a piece of anti-abortion propaganda designed to ascribe the qualities of a whole baby to a fetus-sized humanoid? Or is it just an innocent doll that happens to be terrifying? I start reading: “’A Handful of Love,’ the first Heavenly Handfuls issue, is a tiny masterpiece of sculpting, detailed down to the creases on the bottoms of this little baby’s feet. And she fits neatly in the palm of your hand…. Her soft body makes her easy to pose in a multitude of ways.”

“These dolls are not toys; they are fine collectibles to be enjoyed by adult collectors.”

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1

Because, who doesn't look forward to visiting their crazy aunt with her wall-sized collection of "Heavenly Handfuls" dolls?

I mean, it's better than being stuck in a room full of Teddy Bears, right?

Posted by COMTE | August 3, 2007 12:13 PM
2

It's so much worse.

Posted by Dominic Holden | August 3, 2007 12:14 PM
3

"An exciting variety of ways."


Uh, creepy.

Posted by Rose Red | August 3, 2007 12:17 PM
4

America's national psychosis deepens.

One assumes that in another room of every house with a collection of these in it, the collector's ACTUAL child is going to be filming a porno with an ex-con for a few more hits of meth.

Posted by Fnarf | August 3, 2007 12:18 PM
5

Don't you remember when pictures of these dolls were circulating the net a few years ago, and everyone thought they were made of marzipan?

Posted by Baethan | August 3, 2007 12:29 PM
6

Is it a piece of anti-abortion propaganda designed to ascribe the qualities of a whole baby to a fetus-sized humanoid?

Well, if this makes one or more women of their own free will choose to not have an abortion, then why would anyone have a problem with that?

Posted by raindrop | August 3, 2007 12:53 PM
7

My God, that's so fucking creepy. I pray my mother doesn't find out about them. She's already filled one room with dolls. Being in there is utterly disturbing, as a hundred glassy, unblinking eyes stare at you.

Posted by Gitai | August 3, 2007 12:59 PM
8

Mmm, pennyroyal!

Posted by MadDogM13 | August 3, 2007 1:22 PM
9

It's a vibrator, right?

Posted by dirge | August 3, 2007 1:26 PM
10

Mmm, marzipan babies.

Posted by keshmeshi | August 3, 2007 1:41 PM
11

@7

Walk in that room at night. Close the blinds. Eat some shrooms. Turn the light on for about 1 second then turn it off. Don't close your eyes.

You will freak the fuck out. Trust me.

Posted by Mr. Poe | August 3, 2007 2:18 PM
12

Nothing's more fun than preemies.

Especially the 40 percent you end up burying in shoeboxes.

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 3, 2007 2:48 PM
13

Remind me never to go into your backyard, Will.

Posted by Fnarf | August 3, 2007 3:27 PM
14

Tangent: Someone actually reserved and owns the domain 'Fetii.com' - a parked page which features 'Health and Beauty products' as well as 'Cellular Accessories'

Posted by Allsux | August 3, 2007 4:20 PM
15

For the complete opposite, try http://www.flickr.com/photos/10468439@N05/sets/72157601021948061/

Jen Graves will like this one.

Posted by Fnarf | August 3, 2007 4:25 PM
16

Allsux, I hope you're not laboring under the impression that the non-word "fetii" is the plural of "fetus". It is not. It's "fetuses".

Posted by Fnarf | August 3, 2007 4:28 PM
17

That's so freaking weird, Fnarf.

Posted by Phelix | August 3, 2007 4:39 PM
18

@11 I had enough bad trips in that house, thank you.

Posted by Gitai | August 3, 2007 4:45 PM
19

That baby thing looks like a parasite.

Posted by Jay | August 3, 2007 4:58 PM
20

It's a DOLL, people! A DOLL! Stop acting so weird!

Posted by Soddy | August 5, 2007 6:59 AM
21

#20: Anyone who owns that doll is by definition weird, or a gramma.

Posted by Jay | August 5, 2007 11:20 PM
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