Tag: Memorabilia and other obsessions

Another tour program. As always, at least for the last 30 years, U2 has fabulous design on their tour programs, and the PopMart one from the late 90s is no different:...

One of my too-many Funko Pops:...

An oldie but a goodie, purchased on eBay a few years back:...

This was my aunt Mary’s. She was a huge Elvis fan and also did a lot of thrift-shopping, flea-marketing, and antiques-auction hunting, and apparently had a ton of Elvis memorabilia at her place in Montreal, but this was the one bit I got, brought back to Vancouver when my...

Sadly, I never got to see INXS live. I only got into them about a year before Michael Hutchence died. They played a show at the PNE that year (late August) and I had been going to go but for whatever reason I didn’t, and didn’t worry about it...

I was gonna title this as “Marilyn Manson band autographs” but that would lead one to think I got Manson’s signature as well as a couple of his backing musicians. Here’s the story: Manson had been on the Phil Donahue show but this was before Antichrist Superstar came out,...

And the last of this year’s Lemax posts is this one: “Jolly Toys”: Nice little animated piece here. I picked it up last year. Here’s a video from Lemax showing the animations:...

This week’s Christmas Lemax piece is “The Candy Cane Works”: This was the first major animated Christmas Lemax piece I got. A bunch of others I’ve admired online seem to sorta be the same but with different housing, which is fine but it means I’ll be looking for sales...

This week’s bit of Lemax for the Monday memorabilia and collections post is my first ever Lemax skating rink piece, “North Pole Skating Rink”: Not gonna lie, I was hoping for a bigger and more elaborate skating rink piece, but hey… this year is the Year From Supply Chain...

This week’s Christmas Lemax piece is “Plum St. Perfumeries and Chemist”: Wow, it’s retired? Well, I guess it makes sense since it’s a very specialty sort of piece, but still, kinda neat to have another retired Lemax piece. The only issue I’ve had with mine is the big perfume...