Ghost of a Weeble

I am now committed to the Daily Create. I have done about half so far, but now that the semester is upon me as of tomorrow, I want to formally commit to doing each and every assignment for the length of the semester. So today’s assignment is to take a close-up of a common object. An everyday object around my house for the last five or six years has been this well-worn ghost Weeble from the vintage 1970s Haunted House set. When I got this set on EBay I pretended I was going to keep it as a collector’s item given it was pristine, but as with everything in this vein (i.e., my comics, my AD&D paraphenalia, or my extensive smurf collection it never really works out. As it turns out as much as I want to be a collector I can never stand to see anything that is supposed to inspire joy an fun be entombed within prophylactic plastic. So, inevitably I hold out for about a day or two before the kids get hold of whatever it is I am trying to “preserve.” The unexpected joy out of having this stuff in circulation aroun the house is the everydayness of the object, these toys no longer become rarefied by nostalgia, rather they become part of the world of my home and my kids’ childhood.