I yam still convalescing, which means I don’t feel guilty for phoning this one in. ;) I love the random, and when Nux2 posted a link on our News Tab to a fabulous pillow you can purchase for your home, and he/she described his/her find as “random”, I was on it like Oprah on Obama. It’s mutinous because the pillow has Bollywood on it! And it’s just a mere $19.99? Wheee! Fire up the maroon Camry and let’s go!
Bombay blockbuster. Coming to a sofa or chair near you. Bollywood film clip, remastered in black and white on 100% cotton. Hidden zipper closure; feather-down insert. Machine wash. Imported. [CB2]
If you’re a fraudulent brownie like me who neither speaks Hindi (mein kya karoon?) nor watches Bollyfun, you probably won’t know that the gorgeous woman whose face will soon be under some hipster’s ass* is BhanuRekha Ganesan, the effulgent star of the legendary phillum Umrao Jaan (“the real version”, which came out in 1981 when I was six).
If you click the picture above, you can see a huge version of it, to better appreciate the edginess of it all. Once you do that, you might find yourself considering the severed hand tchotchke I’ve included a screen shot of(“adaa hand sculpture”), which is a steal at just $49.95. Think of all the money you’re saving by not buying the whole body!
One in the hand. Is worth a lot of design karma. Adaa, aka “the charm,” gestures in classical Nritya dance form. Exaggerated sculpture in dark cast sandstone/resin suggests perfect harmony, perfect balance…perfect soap dish? [CB2]
Hold up, wait a minute— how am I offended? Let me count the ways. This sculpture is “dark”, and thus obviously not representative of desi mores. Why isn’t it fair? What if people who read that think it’s African, and thus confuse us with people we may or may not be darker than, yet still consider ourselves superior to?
And why is it considered exaggerated? Don’t impose your Americanized-Westernized-PseudoSecular norms on us! We’ll do with our fingers whatever we choose! Maybe we’re not exaggerated…maybe the terminal members of the copywriters’ hands are repressed!
And why does the word “karma” have to pop up in everything? About the only thing CB2 got right was the soap dish bit. Of course a desi hand would be holding soap! We have a never-ending tape in our head, starring our Mother’s voice hissing, “Cheee!” at regular intervals; obviously, we wash our brown— but not dark! Well, unless you’re a fellow Lemurian— hands often.
Maybe I’m being too harsh on CB2, which is Crate and Barrel’s “younger” incarnation. For all I know, some of you might have these objects in your home. Who am I to judge you for that? If I am so petty, it is entirely possible that my design karma will bite me in my callipygian kundi and you will mock me for my abiding fondness of this humble object, should you ever visit. Hmmm, I wonder if Swedes think we’re odd for buying their amusingly-named furniture…
*Am I the only one who is supremely grossed out when people sit on pillows, especially bed pillows? Especially someone else’s bed pillows?? I don’t want your ass where my face later goes, thanks.
