Years ago when I started collecting oddball stuff like cereal boxes and Funny Face, I was lucky enough to meet Steve Roden. He also had a passion for collecting similiar things and we became good friends. We went to flea markets and traveled all over the country buying collections and building an archive of kid's food packaging. The culmination of all our collecting was the publication of the book Krazy Kids Food and the creation of the online Tick Tock Toys archives.
Well since that time I have continued to add to the kids food collection but my erstwhile partner's collecting interests have gone in a much more woeful direction. Steve now collects obsolete 78rpm records and real photo postcards of old time musicians. Where he once collected things that were bright and fun, now the things he brings home are old and scratchy. To showcase these oddities he has started his own blog Airform Archives. On this blog he revels in all things archaic and antiquated. Perhaps someday I can coax him back into the light.....
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fortunately by collecting woeful things, i get perks like my new shakey bacon 78's size record case... i will be anxious to carry it around the record swap at pcc next month and revel in geekdom... i am hoping the record character becomes a mr. toast regular at some point !
Steve- you will be the envy of all pop culture record collectors. The record and shaky bacon painting remind me of some of Robert Crumbs music pieces he did for his old time music band.
78 rpm records are pretty cool, as Robert Crumb and Seymour (Steve Buscemi)in the movie "Ghost World" has taught us. Seymour won over Enid (Thora Birch) with his focused collecting, but to win over Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) you would need a good Pillsbury Funny Face collection.
JR
Steve's been outed!
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