Slog - Comments on A Handful of Love http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love 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: 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... Copyright 2008 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:55:20 -0800 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:30:29 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by COMTE 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?

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774911 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774911 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:13:03 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden It's so much worse.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774913 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774913 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:14:59 -0800 Comment by Rose Red "An exciting variety of ways."


Uh, creepy.

]]> Rose Red http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774919 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774919 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:17:53 -0800 Comment by Fnarf 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.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774921 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774921 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:18:06 -0800 Comment by Baethan 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?

]]> Baethan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774944 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774944 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:29:28 -0800 Comment by raindrop
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?

]]> raindrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774974 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774974 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:53:30 -0800 Comment by Gitai 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.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c774977 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:59:06 -0800 Comment by MadDogM13 Mmm, pennyroyal!

]]> MadDogM13 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775020 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775020 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:22:38 -0800 Comment by dirge It's a vibrator, right?

]]> dirge http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775027 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775027 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:26:46 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Mmm, marzipan babies.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775043 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775043 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:41:11 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @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.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775095 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775095 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:18:45 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Nothing's more fun than preemies.

Especially the 40 percent you end up burying in shoeboxes.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775131 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775131 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:48:48 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Remind me never to go into your backyard, Will.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775180 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775180 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:27:19 -0800 Comment by Allsux Tangent: Someone actually reserved and owns the domain 'Fetii.com' - a parked page which features 'Health and Beauty products' as well as 'Cellular Accessories'

]]> Allsux http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775231 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775231 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:20:24 -0800 Comment by Fnarf For the complete opposite, try http://www.flickr.com/photos/10468439@N05/sets/72157601021948061/

Jen Graves will like this one.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775233 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775233 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:25:52 -0800 Comment by Fnarf 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".

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775238 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775238 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:28:19 -0800 Comment by Phelix That's so freaking weird, Fnarf.

]]> Phelix http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775245 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775245 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:39:05 -0800 Comment by Gitai @11 I had enough bad trips in that house, thank you.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775254 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775254 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:45:43 -0800 Comment by Jay That baby thing looks like a parasite.

]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775263 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775263 What the Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:58:58 -0800 Comment by Soddy It's a DOLL, people! A DOLL! Stop acting so weird!

]]> Soddy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775451 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775451 What the Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:59:25 -0800 Comment by Jay #20: Anyone who owns that doll is by definition weird, or a gramma.

]]> Jay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775532 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c775532 What the Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:20:37 -0800 Comment by evxi hvwfugkd zsfdgl oilmr qoakbjpuh nfzsjdo dbvhkrtm icqbns hwzigj

]]> evxi hvwfugkd http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c776484 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/handful_of_love#c776484 What the Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:28:21 -0800 Comment by vcjk cvrknpg obzfnumd uyivfrpsw mekw ilhwad kaftx mnszkl saujpbfq http://www.bigumqkpz.srxu.com

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