Posted on 03/16/2025 1:37:38 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Every once in a while, through the winding supply chain systems that end in the items we buy for our homes and closets, a strangely specific motif emerges. There was a stretch a few years ago where I recall nearly every shelf of Home Goods and rack at Urban Outfitters had been slapped with a slew of owls: peering over sides of mugs, hooting out from T-shirts, welcoming you on cutesy doormats. Well, it seems the latest fad in this vein is: the mushroom. Specifically, a spotted, usually red and white variety.
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Just saw mushroom hut in Jerusalem for Purim.
First 20 seconds:
https://youtu.be/g01zEdC19rI?si=vWI5y6uL3GoyYvj-
Beats the 60s appliances. Seems like everyone had avocado colored ones. Or some weird yellow.
The red with white spots are Amanita Muscaria and a potent
hallucinigen. Do not confuse with the other members of the
Amanita family which are deadly poison, with names like
Death Angel and Destroying angel.While it is possible to survive ingestion of those with immediate and massive medical
intervention it is a horrible death.
The Muscarias are often associated with fairys and gnomes,
The Siberian steppe culture shamans would partake of the Muscarias to induce vivid visions and since the active alkoloids are not broken down by the digestive tract the other villagers would collect the shamans urine and drink it for a vision trip themselves. Also thought to be the SOMA of the ancient Vedas.
Oh, spring and early summer IS mushroom season.
The stoner crowd is pushing to legalize ‘shrooms.
“earth tones?”
Did General Creech come back from the dead?
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“Creech brown” became the term for buildings painted in the certain shade of earth-tone brown he favored, and it became virtually universal throughout TAC. Shop interiors went from greasy to glistening, and personnel took pride in their workplace and improved performance. Creech continually preached “quality in everything you do.” “
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0305creech/
Fall and winter on the west coast.
I remember when it was white geese with blue bows around their neck.
Yes, depends on where you’re at...
“About 10-15 years ago you had to hang a large metal star on the outside of your house.”
You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.
Two mushroom stories
-I was fortunate to be part of some archeology on the San Francisco Peninsula. It was on the private Filoli Estate. One day, I arrived at the dig site a little early. One of the young skulls full of mush was about to really mush up. He was about to eat some of the wild mushrooms. I screamed, and he did not die. Later, when the professor arrived, he banned the mush head to the lab. No more field work for him.
The other mushroom non-experience was learning how to cross country ski. I was already comfortable with downhill skiing, so it was not too hard. As the group gathered at the start of the day, they started passing around what they called ‘shrooms.’ I declined. Later on, we caught up to the “shroomers” on the trail. They were staring up at a tree, staring and staring, and staring.
I’m into horses. Have two versions of Pegasus and the Muse by Odeon Redon.
They show brave winged horse flying to rim of volcano to save a beautiful woman. A brown and orange one in the living room, and a similar one in blue over the bed.
No way I’d trade these for mushrooms. Hard to make one beautiful. Taste good, though.
Fads. I suspect that the mushroom growers cabal notified their MSM media brethren to push their “mushroom package.”
I am still wondering which pusher cabals of water, in the 1970s, to be sold paid the MSM to push how outrageously filthy our spigot water is which supposedly contains every disease known to mankind with some new, unidentified, killer diseases.
It is a racket. That is all.
Those were called Harvest Gold. Around 1986 we bought a house that still had all Harvest Gold appliances and even a harvest gold sink to boot. They didn’t last long. lol
Some crappy factory in China picks something at random and then sees how much of it they can pawn off on us.
Subliminal advertising. They want you to crave peyote. Hint: don’t do it!
It was like that in the 70s too
Styles go around and come back around.
“Mushrooms are good in omelettes with swiss cheese.”
Oh yeah. Now I’m hungry dammit!
Folks,
I dated a gal from home economics once. She asked me if I knew why emerald green was popular that fall. Being a dumb farm kid , I said I didn’t. She said that was picked by a committee 4 years ago. Then the dye makers got busy, the clothing designers got busy, the marketing people got busy, etc.
Fashion is created, it does not happen by accident.
The democrats created the fashion of perversion, it is now out of fashion. We have a new one called MAGA.
It’s because mushrooms go well with Gnomes.
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