I'm going to be traveling like crazy for the next several weeks, so last week Anne and I took a couple days off to have a quick two day getaway. We went out to this hotel in the desert that we like, and spent about 36 hours sitting by the pool, doing a whole lot of nothing. It was glorious.
The thing about driving out to the desert is that you spend a fair amount of time on the Interstate, where truck stops are as abundant as country and mariachi music on the radio. The thing about going into truck stops is that you get to see some magnificently awful clothing and gift options that would have to be invented, if they didn't already exist.
BEHOLD:
(Click image to embiggen at flickr.)
If you desperately wanted an apparently hand painted dreamcatcher featuring spirit wolves, horses, and other … things, now you know where to find them.
I sent this picture to Paul and Storm, because something this amazing couldn't be kept to myself. Storm replied, "the internet uses every part of the wolf."
He's right, you know.
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Storm’s comment cause me to guffaw.
YAY for mini vacations 😀
That is sometimes the best part of road trips! It’s amazing what you can find out there.
I’m glad you and Anne got to get away for a few days! I know what it’s like to have an amazing guy that has to be away for work, and those weekends/days that you both get to sneak away are amazing, and important.
Hehehe.
Oh dear, “tacky” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
So where are you off to except SDCC? More acting work you can’t talk about? 😀
Is that Indian Elvis I see? Glorious…
Every part? Yeah. Looks like. *Nods in agreement.
Actually, yes!
Good news!
Just saw Weird Al in concert in Dallas, and he stripped down to the “three wolves howling” shirt during one number. Double-double rainbow…
Every part but one. I won’t say which one, but it can be found on the truck stop black market.
My BF just laughed. He can spot dreamcatchers from miles away and this made his day.
I went coast to coast a couple of years back with a Welsh male voice choir. Oh god, the things I’ve seen in dingy midwestern truckstops…
Needs two more wolves and a moon.
Then the wolves need to be replaced by Tuxes.
Hmm. I wonder if I can close the italics tag here…
It looks like Hdibner’s italics runneth over!
LOL actually the closer to texas and mexico you get, the worse these get to 😛 trust me, me and my husband adam were driving from alabama to texas to go live over there (lol we have since moved back to alabama :P) and every single one we stopped at had bigger ones than the one you have photographed up there. then again, they do say everything is bigger in texas, right? 😛
Is it just me or does that dreamcatcher with the wolf on it have a dreamcatcher hanging off of it? If so, isn’t that overkill… or do ya think it might be a way to lure in the double rainbow guy?
That stuff… You can never have enough of that stuff. And turquoise.
Speaking of vacations, do you have any thing planned in early January? Like a Caribbean cruise? A Caribbean Cruise Crazy Cruise?
If you follow I-10 east, you’ll learn that in Florida the internets also use every part of an alligator.
Not all Midwestern truckstops are dingy. Well most of them are, but not all of them.
Take THAT, last gasps of dying Native American culture!
“The wolf was only trying to help.”–Frazier on DUE SOUTH.
In Tennessee they use every part of the Black Bear.
I love these type of vacations. Great times with no schedule. Safe travels with all your upcoming travels. Have a great night.
Seeing stuff like this really brings me back to my brief time living in rural Arizona. One of my favorites was a little store that was called something like “Bob and Jim’s Tobacco and Guns”…although I never mustered up the courage to actually take a look inside.
I loves me home state of California…I swore upon returning I’d never set foot in the Southwest again…but I have a feeling that one day I’ll somehow find myself back there…;)
This is the breeding grounds of the Three Wolf Moon.
You have nothing to fear until you see a Wesley painted in velvet in the middle of one of those things. XD
And Scalzi, that is NOT a prank idea.
For shame, Storm. The internet does not use the wolf, the wolf uses the internet.
It’s so great that you’re getting all of these awesome offers for roles now!
I know that it really sucked for you at times. But I can’t help but think that the rest of us are so much richer because you’ve spent the last 15 years doing so much more than just being an actor. If the roles had been coming hot and heavy for you after STTNG, we might never have gotten all those fantastic years of WWDN… Dancing Barefoot… Ernest Borg9… Just a Geek… The Happiest Days… w00tstock… Unicorn Pegasus Kitten (well, okay, that last bit was probably something without which we would have survived, my eyes still haven’t recovered from the shock).
I hope that you feel richer because of it, too.
… I feel like I know that store. Antelope Valley Mall, Wil?
Funnily enough, my late dog played Diefenbaker in the series pilot. [/random]
W00t! Io9 has posted a link to a clip of you on Eureka!! Very kewl!!
I think those are medicine shields with dream catchers hanging off of them.
At least they haven’t gotten to the “wolves playing cards” motif yet.
Having worked at a truck stop through college, I can attest that not only do truck stops carry those things, they actually do SELL them as well 🙂
I was always partial to the stuff with unicorns myself…
As someone who has family on reservation land, who has actually seen the shithole conditions in which this stuff* is made, has seen people who make it adhering to old traditions, and that it means something to them and it should to us too…
How does a chuckle at art at the caliber of Wolf T-shirt turn into little snide comments about turquoise. How does it turn into snide comments about dream catchers? Seriously? Say what you really mean, don’t mince words.
The tone in these comments makes me more than a little sad. Lots of violating of the Don’t be a Dick rule. It’s ok to be a dick to someone if they’re ancestors were here before yours were. You can say it’s not like that, but it absolutely is.
* – refers to dreamcatchers and the like that are the real deal, not fake imports.
I’m just glad you and Anne didn’t get raped and stuffed into laundy bags. Truck stops make me nervous. Then again I guess I shouldn’t believe everything I see in scary movies. Although I have to say about the dreamcatcher… its pretty bad-a. Not gonna lie. I would proudly hang it in my house. You should have bought it. Its a classic truck stop souvenir.