January 13, 2008
Scandal and controversy in the world of competitive scrapbooking - Too much to take in: $2.6-billion industry... boycotts... the phrase 'quarter-life crisis'...
An avant-garde Hall of Fame scrapbooker -- part of a movement of 'scrappers who use "loneliness, narcissism and rage" rather than "teddy bear stamps, snowflake stencils and cupcakes" -- is stripped of her title. If this were april-1st I'd think it was a great hoax, but it's in the LA Times. Fake? not Fake? Who knows: enjoyable. [thx kottke]
(Also, I can't tell if the story is real.)
That is a great idea.
It also means that thrift store/estate sale enthusiasts of twenty years from now will occasionally have their day phenomenally bizarrened by finds like 'The Story of my Date Rape' or 'The Day We Killed 20 People in Pitched Battle and I Watched My Best Friend Die In My Arms'.
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I do know that a common therapy for PTSD is to have the victim create a scrapbook chronicle what happened to them and their feelings about it.
posted by Valatan at 11:25AM CST on January 13