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YES! WEEKLY VISITS MAMA JO’S HOUSE OF DOLLS

October 5, 2012 by Jo Maeder 2 Comments

Do you think dolls are cute or creepy? Most people fall in one camp or the other. Yet every culture has dolls. Why? My theory is they go back to when a cave woman made one to amuse her kid while she rubbed two sticks together to make a fire. Or perhaps she lost a […]

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Filed Under: Dolls, Pop Culture

A BURIED TREASURE, A NEW ADVENTURE

September 13, 2012 by Jo Maeder 4 Comments

He almost went into the freebie pile. He stands 7 1/2 inches tall. I should say he measures that tall because he can’t stand on his own. His clothes are moth-eaten. His feet look too wide and big for his short legs. Yet there was something about him that intrigued me. Mind you, it took […]

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Filed Under: Dolls, Essay, Family, Pop Culture Tagged With: collecting, Dolls, grief, hoarding

BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH JOHN WATERS

August 27, 2011 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

I’ve just finished John Water’s latest funhouse of memories and musings, Role Models. There’s a spray of pink slips of paper sprouting from the top of it now – markers of captivating passages. I know, I know. With an e-reader you can highlight, search for keywords and deodorize a room at the same time. I’d […]

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Filed Under: Essay, Pop Culture Tagged With: Baltimore, Cy Twombly, filth, John Waters, Johnny Mathis, Lee Lozano, Little Richard, non-coupling, Rei Kawakubo, Role Models, Tennessee Williams, therapy

MY FANTASY FINAL ROSE

June 1, 2011 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

Summer 2011 As another Bachelorette nears its “most dramatic final rose ceremony ever” I find myself thinking back to the Bachelor debut in 2002. Twenty-five beautiful young women vied for the heart of one alpha male. Many weeks later, he whittled it down to one. Kind of like a harem in reverse. I was horrified. I couldn’t […]

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Filed Under: Pop Culture Tagged With: Bachelor, Bachelorette, Final Rose, harem, Lord of the Flies, Stockholm Syndrome, The Bachelorette

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