[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jen Collins, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $20.50.] For my 9th birthday, I begged my mother to take me to the iron-on decal store at the Meadow Glen Mall. … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Tim Carvell, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $35.] On December 17, 1948, the Humboldt twins entered the world, Jerome screaming, Luke laughing. This pattern held. Jerome grew up … Continue reading
In the course of inventing Significance for this object, Dean Haspiel’s story describes said dish being shattered. This might lead some to believe that we are selling the broken shards of a dish. We are not. We are selling the … Continue reading
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $78.82 $72.82 Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $1,781.70 Coming up this week: Objects with Significance added by Jen Collins, David Shields, and more. Posting soon: Tim Carvell. Still on auction: Objects with Significance added by … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Annalee Newitz, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $10.] At this point most people realize that getting marketers involved in space travel is a bad idea. But fifty years … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Aimee Bender, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $36.] When I was twelve, many decades ago, I was at a beachfront store in San Diego, one of those towns that … Continue reading
This past July and August, Rob and I spent many hours visiting thrift stores, yard sales, and flea markets in search of objects for this project. We imposed only a few curatorial restraints on ourselves: e.g., nothing above $4, no … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Thomas McNeely, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $17.] As a mug, it was useless: pot-bellied, so whatever we drank, herbal tea, cheap whiskey, cheap red wine, dribbled down our … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Dean Haspiel, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $6.75.] Kentucky reminds me of my first and, probably, only encounter with a friend whom aliens had, supposedly, abducted. In the late … Continue reading
The following is excerpted from an article published today in the Chicago Tribune. Reporter: Christopher Borrelli. I have never placed a bid on eBay, but I was tempted the other day by a listing for a red wooden mallet. I … Continue reading
–> Most important fact: We are taking today off. New story tomorrow. Meanwhile, read through old ones, or, even better, see what’s still on auction in our eBay shop. Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $64.83. Aggregate sales, post-Significance: … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sloane Crosley, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $57.66.] Alec Baldwin never had a Bar Mitzvah. The non-fact of this, the bloated lack in the calendar of his mind, … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sari Wilson, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $31.] It’s incongruous. The buttery finish, the fluted spout, the air hole in the back of its head offering a peek into … Continue reading
Aggregate cost of objects, sold so far: $60.50. Aggregate sales, post-Significance: $1,478.54. Coming up this week: Objects with Significance added by Sari Wilson and Sloane Crosley. Posted earlier this week: object-oriented stories by Sung J. Woo, Todd Levin, and Rosecrans … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rosecrans Baldwin, has ended. Original price: $1.50. Final price: $26. ] The North Americans refused accusal. Constructed great cities and gave their names to them and let them crumble and then … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Todd Levin, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $50.] Have you ever hated someone solely for her dumb benevolence? For bland and witless good cheer? It’s the lowest of unfair … Continue reading
