Recovering Crack Baby
February 2, 2010 at 10:59 am
YAH- for the six more weeks of shit!!! Now that is something to celebrate. I was getting worried ETSY may have been running out of shit- thank God this appeared today.
#3 methuselah: Sadly, I know the answer to your question… I know you don’t really want to know, but if I have to know this crap, so does someone else. It’s creating boundaries, cleansing, burying the past and moving on, rebirth…
#leftfoot: OMG. Good to know. So I could’ve saved myself 8 years in therapy and just gotten this shield instead. *hitting self in head* Stupid, stupid, stupid! (Still working on self-esteem.)
Obviously the painter is very talented, I just wish she knew the difference between a groundhog and a chipmunk. Also, regardless of the fact that I’m part Native American, I would never hang something this ugly in or around my house.
People, people! It’s Tracy Rose Moyers who did this! You know … Tracy Rose Moyers! Yeah, she’s the one who … um … yeah. Her.
I wonder if the owner of this shield had/has low self-esteem. I mean … a prairie dog? I can hear his wife, too. “You couldn’t be like Tom and at least make it to raccoon?”
damn, hi stretch65- ok so you’re not my dad, after all…LOL
but i know who you are now.
strange coincidence that you pick a name that is my dad’s nickname/age…
thanks for the chuckles just the same!
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck… If you think about it, it’s actually kind of appropriate as a listing on Etsy. You know cuz of the wood, as in penis; and chucking, as in tossing your cookies. OK that was a bad joke but there are just so many cookies and woodys tossed around on Etsy.
It’s kind of a cute groundhog though and I can see how some people would go for it. It’s not hideous or a disaster or anything.
There is a legend–
Of the warrior who would neither hunt, fish, nor protect the tribe.
But he sat in his longhouse and ate snacks all summer and winter.
Because of his laziness, he was turned into a groundhog by the Great Spirit
Now he lives in a dirt hole, afraid of his shadow, eating things found underfoot .
He is a sacred animal for followers of the Super Bowl cult–from long ago.
–oral tradition, Punxsutawney tribe
From “Animal-Speak” by Ted Andrews: (this is very, very edited down)…
“Groundhog (woodchuck). Keynote: Mystery of Death without dying. Trance. Dreams. Cycle of Power: Winter.
The groundhog or woodchuck is actually a member of the squirrel family…
Groundhogs are generally non-territorial, but they will not allow others in their tunnel. For anyone with a groundhog totem, it is important to set boundaries…”
And it goes on about the whole hibernation/meditation connection…
The best part about Groundhog Day is going door to door, singing those traditional songs like “Oh Little ‘Hog of Punxsutawney” and “Cloudy Day (Holy Day)” before we dress up in costumes and give out hand made cards and look for groundhog pellets.
this is supposed to be a chipmunk, but it looks more like a mouse that got loose at the Sephora warehouse. I also think these things are really small, like the mini dream catcher hubby has in his car.
I’ve had a family of chipmunks corralled under my sideboard once. They don’t look like that.
#49 whaapplewha — Thanks! I have to give credit for the idea to #8 turtlegirl76 — but I will say that I’m proud of myself for making the skater look as blurry as the rest of the shield. That was a challenge.
#39
OK Patty, now we know what a groundhog stands for, but what about the prairie dog depicted here? I know them for grouping together in the hundreds and all chirping outside my house at the same time, digging up my yard, and carrying the plague.
Other than the pretentious bio written in the 3rd person (hate that), I don’t think her stuff is that bad. There is certainly a lot worse out there in Etsyland.
I might add, however, that to anyone who does believe in totems and spirit animals, some of the comments on here are akin to dissing Mary to a Catholic :p
@ravyncrow–yeah, I’m sure our mockery is driving real native Americans from their ancestral beliefs, the pillars of the Vatican are tumbling down, and god is saying f-it by leaving our Universe for good as we spiral into a nothingness of Oblivion–right? Or maybe not.
#30 Here’s the link for the rules to Rosa Parks’ musical chairs -http://www.understandingprejudice.org/teach/elemact.htm! After that, a game of whack-a-mole (groundhog)(prairie dog) while waving shopped spirit shields. Good times.
OMG, and as soon as I saw this, I knew a white bitch made it. Because no ACTUAL Native American person would make one that shitty. Checked out her website where she’s talking about all the respect she has for Native Americans, and she dresses like a white hippie Pocahontas.
Tell you what hon, if you ACTUALLY respect and care for NAs, try NOT co-opting, butchering, and then attempting to capitalize on their culture, mmmkay? “Well, we already took their land, why not their groundhog…
#64 kyuss – She doesn’t even seem to realize that American Indians don’t have just one monolithic culture. So she spent a couple summers on a Navajo reservation and a week on a Blackfeet reservation and thinks she can lump all American Indians together with her cliche, stereotypical paintings? At least recognize differences between nations and specify which people you mean to “honor”, rather than reinforcing the idea that American Indians are all the same.
Poor little whatever the hell it is. Stuck there forever in someone’s nightmarish dream catcher. We should take up donations for it so that it will be set free.
Prairie dog or groundhog or whatever, I rescued this creature today! It made me laugh so hard that I had to buy it. I plan on giving it to my husband as one of those little things we’ll always giggle about for whatever reason. He has this big stuffed fish from his parents he’s never let go of for the same reason, so rest assured it’s going to a good home!
February 2, 2010 at 10:59 am
YAH- for the six more weeks of shit!!! Now that is something to celebrate. I was getting worried ETSY may have been running out of shit- thank God this appeared today.
February 2, 2010 at 11:00 am
I meant GOSH- Thank Gosh. Forgive me Tammi for I have sinned- please don’t paint me.
February 2, 2010 at 11:00 am
Trying to think what qualities of a groundhog I would want to be endowed with. Cuz, yknow, I’m already fat. So that’s out.
February 2, 2010 at 11:01 am
You know, if I cleared out my mom’s storage of all her “native” american crap, I’d be a thousandaire. *sigh*
February 2, 2010 at 11:01 am
Oh, and I hibernate. Year-round. So that’s out too.
February 2, 2010 at 11:04 am
#3 methuselah: Sadly, I know the answer to your question… I know you don’t really want to know, but if I have to know this crap, so does someone else. It’s creating boundaries, cleansing, burying the past and moving on, rebirth…
February 2, 2010 at 11:05 am
That’s also not a groundhog. That’s a prairie dog.
They look similar, but not the same. Biology FAIL.
February 2, 2010 at 11:08 am
Now if only there was a naked figure skater shield.
February 2, 2010 at 11:08 am
#leftfoot: OMG. Good to know. So I could’ve saved myself 8 years in therapy and just gotten this shield instead. *hitting self in head* Stupid, stupid, stupid! (Still working on self-esteem.)
February 2, 2010 at 11:13 am
6 more weeks? i hope it’s six more YEARS!
hey, it looks like pedo bear is attacking in this one…http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19398339
February 2, 2010 at 11:15 am
‘If you gotta’ shoot aim high. I don’t wanna hit the groundhog’
(Buster Green, from ‘Groundhog Day’
February 2, 2010 at 11:16 am
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19398339
hey the link didn’t work…i’ll try again…
February 2, 2010 at 11:20 am
#12 Why does the woman’s son have his face planted in her butt?
February 2, 2010 at 11:21 am
The quality I know for sure that they have is being able to bury themselves deep into a hole and well…I don’t need to do that.
February 2, 2010 at 11:22 am
Is it me or does the Ground Hog/Prarie Dog look like he is taking Communion?!!
HI Razberries!!
February 2, 2010 at 11:23 am
Obviously the painter is very talented, I just wish she knew the difference between a groundhog and a chipmunk. Also, regardless of the fact that I’m part Native American, I would never hang something this ugly in or around my house.
February 2, 2010 at 11:23 am
Am I seeing shit or is there a hidden large bird near the middle of the tree, in the bear painting.
February 2, 2010 at 11:26 am
#17 Bird spirit I’m thinking. Hope they don’t slime like ghosts
February 2, 2010 at 11:30 am
hey i know who stretch65 is…i think this is my DAD everyone…LOL
hi dad
February 2, 2010 at 11:31 am
#9 methuselah : what you save in therapy just goes into basket weaving and animal pelts. hehe
February 2, 2010 at 11:34 am
They undermine the foundations of buildings and I don’t wanna be a building wrecker either.
February 2, 2010 at 11:37 am
Hi Raz’s Dad.
February 2, 2010 at 11:38 am
“Seeing you again, Little Big Man, makes my heart burrow like a groundhog.”
February 2, 2010 at 11:39 am
I would like to hoard crap in my cheeks and walk around randomly spitting shit out at people.
February 2, 2010 at 11:39 am
Let’s see if this works. If not, I’ll look like an idiot.
February 2, 2010 at 11:39 am
OK. Idiot it is.
http://www.jlhjewelry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/shield.jpg
February 2, 2010 at 11:43 am
People, people! It’s Tracy Rose Moyers who did this! You know … Tracy Rose Moyers! Yeah, she’s the one who … um … yeah. Her.
I wonder if the owner of this shield had/has low self-esteem. I mean … a prairie dog? I can hear his wife, too. “You couldn’t be like Tom and at least make it to raccoon?”
February 2, 2010 at 11:47 am
damn, hi stretch65- ok so you’re not my dad, after all…LOL
but i know who you are now.
strange coincidence that you pick a name that is my dad’s nickname/age…
thanks for the chuckles just the same!
February 2, 2010 at 11:51 am
last night i had this bizarre dream about watching a hippo at some weird zoo. does that count as an animal appearing in a vision?
god, i hope not.
February 2, 2010 at 11:52 am
This actually did come to me in a vision.
The vision included the groundhogs wearing festive Martin Luther King Day cat masks and they were playing a great game of Rosa Parks musical chairs.
February 2, 2010 at 12:09 pm
I think it’s eating either a communion wafer or a potato chip – take your choice according to your belief system.
February 2, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I’m “into” this sort of thing. Six of my eight tattoos are related to the Native American spirit animal belief.
And when I think of a proud Native American Spirit Warrior…
I think of the fierce and mighty GROUND-PRAIRIE-HOG-DOG!
You all should bow in awe and terror!
February 2, 2010 at 12:12 pm
tejasmom – I was thinking it looks like it might be eating a Kachina doll. Definitely not good mojo.
February 2, 2010 at 12:18 pm
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck… If you think about it, it’s actually kind of appropriate as a listing on Etsy. You know cuz of the wood, as in penis; and chucking, as in tossing your cookies. OK that was a bad joke but there are just so many cookies and woodys tossed around on Etsy.
It’s kind of a cute groundhog though and I can see how some people would go for it. It’s not hideous or a disaster or anything.
February 2, 2010 at 12:20 pm
I thought this looked familiar. It’s a Storque pick:
http://www.etsy.com/storque/etc/happy-groundhog-day-6960/
February 2, 2010 at 12:30 pm
There is a legend–
Of the warrior who would neither hunt, fish, nor protect the tribe.
But he sat in his longhouse and ate snacks all summer and winter.
Because of his laziness, he was turned into a groundhog by the Great Spirit
Now he lives in a dirt hole, afraid of his shadow, eating things found underfoot .
He is a sacred animal for followers of the Super Bowl cult–from long ago.
–oral tradition, Punxsutawney tribe
February 2, 2010 at 12:34 pm
umm, it blends in with the Storque finds, someone must have been scraping the barrel. I just don’t get how the “groundhog” is a noble animal?
February 2, 2010 at 12:42 pm
I had a vision and they put me on some strong meds
February 2, 2010 at 1:01 pm
From “Animal-Speak” by Ted Andrews: (this is very, very edited down)…
“Groundhog (woodchuck). Keynote: Mystery of Death without dying. Trance. Dreams. Cycle of Power: Winter.
The groundhog or woodchuck is actually a member of the squirrel family…
Groundhogs are generally non-territorial, but they will not allow others in their tunnel. For anyone with a groundhog totem, it is important to set boundaries…”
And it goes on about the whole hibernation/meditation connection…
February 2, 2010 at 1:30 pm
The best part about Groundhog Day is going door to door, singing those traditional songs like “Oh Little ‘Hog of Punxsutawney” and “Cloudy Day (Holy Day)” before we dress up in costumes and give out hand made cards and look for groundhog pellets.
February 2, 2010 at 1:34 pm
http://twitpic.com/112lif
February 2, 2010 at 1:51 pm
#41 Skully: I had to play with yours
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac346/un_muse/62266983a.jpg
February 2, 2010 at 1:52 pm
So how sad is one’s life if you have visions of groundhogs in your dreams?
February 2, 2010 at 1:55 pm
hee hee Razberries
February 2, 2010 at 2:00 pm
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=20934065
this is supposed to be a chipmunk, but it looks more like a mouse that got loose at the Sephora warehouse. I also think these things are really small, like the mini dream catcher hubby has in his car.
I’ve had a family of chipmunks corralled under my sideboard once. They don’t look like that.
The groundhog looks more like a meerkat.
February 2, 2010 at 2:02 pm
late to the party but just got home from work for some fun with my old friend…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15639141@N02/4326402718/
February 2, 2010 at 2:09 pm
The only thing going for this item is that everything appears to be spelled correctly and the description actually makes sense.
February 2, 2010 at 2:10 pm
I want my Shield to be halk toad and halk chicken. My reasons for choosing these two sacred animals is too personal to explain.
February 2, 2010 at 2:20 pm
#26 Veracity: Your shield is pretty awesome. It makes me think of the song “She’s Like the Wind”. Somehow, it just works in my head.
(Not to diss Patrick Swayze.)
February 2, 2010 at 2:30 pm
@clevercat–LOL and yikes! Never, never show mittens to a bear that big.
February 2, 2010 at 3:14 pm
This is by the same artist, the idea is kool but my god this is the scariest chipmunk I’ve ever seen…
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20031788
February 2, 2010 at 3:23 pm
“A good shield was believed capable of affording the bearer the protection of the Great Spirit”.
Hmm……guess the bearer of this one’s on his own.
February 2, 2010 at 3:49 pm
#49 whaapplewha — Thanks! I have to give credit for the idea to #8 turtlegirl76 — but I will say that I’m proud of myself for making the skater look as blurry as the rest of the shield. That was a challenge.
February 2, 2010 at 4:15 pm
#39
OK Patty, now we know what a groundhog stands for, but what about the prairie dog depicted here? I know them for grouping together in the hundreds and all chirping outside my house at the same time, digging up my yard, and carrying the plague.
February 2, 2010 at 4:15 pm
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February 2, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Other than the pretentious bio written in the 3rd person (hate that), I don’t think her stuff is that bad. There is certainly a lot worse out there in Etsyland.
I might add, however, that to anyone who does believe in totems and spirit animals, some of the comments on here are akin to dissing Mary to a Catholic :p
February 2, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Skully, I think I love you…
February 2, 2010 at 5:22 pm
#48 whaapplewha a spirit shield for you: http://twitpic.com/113p5t
February 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm
@ravyncrow–yeah, I’m sure our mockery is driving real native Americans from their ancestral beliefs, the pillars of the Vatican are tumbling down, and god is saying f-it by leaving our Universe for good as we spiral into a nothingness of Oblivion–right? Or maybe not.
February 2, 2010 at 6:18 pm
#59 Oh nothing like that … just sayin’ :p
Then again, maybe we have hit that spiral, given the things that people will pay good money for these days.
February 2, 2010 at 6:39 pm
@ ravncrow –nor was I serious either (shouts at red thumb brigade) But, if everything is sacred, then maybe nothing is…just sayin’
February 2, 2010 at 7:05 pm
#30 Here’s the link for the rules to Rosa Parks’ musical chairs -http://www.understandingprejudice.org/teach/elemact.htm! After that, a game of whack-a-mole (groundhog)(prairie dog) while waving shopped spirit shields. Good times.
February 2, 2010 at 8:30 pm
It looks like he’s eating a circumcised penis nugget!
February 2, 2010 at 9:22 pm
OMG, and as soon as I saw this, I knew a white bitch made it. Because no ACTUAL Native American person would make one that shitty. Checked out her website where she’s talking about all the respect she has for Native Americans, and she dresses like a white hippie Pocahontas.
Tell you what hon, if you ACTUALLY respect and care for NAs, try NOT co-opting, butchering, and then attempting to capitalize on their culture, mmmkay? “Well, we already took their land, why not their groundhog…
February 2, 2010 at 10:19 pm
#58 Vile & Evil… that is so beautiful. The glow that the animal has is exactly how my spirit animal revealed itself to me. I am honored.
February 3, 2010 at 8:05 am
#64 kyuss – She doesn’t even seem to realize that American Indians don’t have just one monolithic culture. So she spent a couple summers on a Navajo reservation and a week on a Blackfeet reservation and thinks she can lump all American Indians together with her cliche, stereotypical paintings? At least recognize differences between nations and specify which people you mean to “honor”, rather than reinforcing the idea that American Indians are all the same.
(So gonna get voted down for…
February 3, 2010 at 10:48 am
Poor little whatever the hell it is. Stuck there forever in someone’s nightmarish dream catcher. We should take up donations for it so that it will be set free.
February 3, 2010 at 11:56 am
Veracity – well done!
February 4, 2010 at 4:56 pm
it’s a prarie dog for one thing, and a dream catcher for another. lol
February 16, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Prairie dog or groundhog or whatever, I rescued this creature today! It made me laugh so hard that I had to buy it. I plan on giving it to my husband as one of those little things we’ll always giggle about for whatever reason. He has this big stuffed fish from his parents he’s never let go of for the same reason, so rest assured it’s going to a good home!