Shabby Sheik
This post first appeared on Regretsy on June 21, 2011
Nothing ensures a good night’s sleep like a stained muslin feed sack. Pair that up with a cot from a typhoid ward and an itchy wool blanket, and it’s like the bridal suite at the Jalalabad Hilton. Nighty Night!
June 24, 2012 at 9:35 am
mmmm I just love a good pillow with blood and vomit stains. Especially when they aren’t my own.
Oh god I bet that is a fetish
June 24, 2012 at 9:54 am
Rule 34. No exceptions.
June 24, 2012 at 12:24 pm
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June 24, 2012 at 5:45 pm
at least it’s not a placenta print.
June 24, 2012 at 9:36 am
They should have turned it into a purse – you know, for that ‘hobo chic’ look.
June 24, 2012 at 9:39 am
Perfect product for those too dehydrated to produce their own pillow drool!
June 24, 2012 at 9:39 am
They couldn’t have found a pillow that actually fits inside it?
June 24, 2012 at 11:21 am
Why bother?
June 24, 2012 at 11:23 am
Yeah, you’re right. That would reek of effort.
June 24, 2012 at 11:42 am
I don’t even think $75 worth of effort would make that nasty pillowcase worth $75.
June 24, 2012 at 3:46 pm
The fact that this is priced $75 makes me want to bitchslap the seller.
June 24, 2012 at 1:16 pm
I suppose you color inside the lines too, conformist!
June 24, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Those pasties you make are pretty awesome, Wickedheart!
June 24, 2012 at 1:52 pm
I read that as pasties as in Cornish pasties. I thought to myself “mmm!” and clicked. Boobs are nice, but I really wanted to look at pictures of food. I wonder what that says about me.
June 24, 2012 at 3:01 pm
You’re hungry?
June 24, 2012 at 3:19 pm
But it’s got ropes! With knots!!!
Or is that an old landline phone cord?
June 24, 2012 at 9:41 am
wait…there’s hipster BEDDING now? oy vey…pretty soon they’ll be sleeping in cardboard boxes in parks. but in an ironic way, not in an actual homeless way.
June 24, 2012 at 10:02 am
My husband and I saw the king of hipsters just yesterday on a bus in Chicago. He had a giant skateboard, a mini Casio keyboard with an amp, he was crocheting, and his hat was held together with a bandana. He got off the bus and went into a bar with a huge PBR neon sign in the window, met outside by another skateboard-welding hipster. I think I found the place where they breed.
June 24, 2012 at 10:15 am
I think we all know what to do. I do believe it’s time to carpet-bomb the place with birth control.
June 27, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Bust out the Depo Provera blow darts!
June 24, 2012 at 10:35 am
Was it in North Dakota? Or Wisconsin? If not those damn places are popping up all over the country.
June 24, 2012 at 10:47 am
The correct term for him is “The Hipstest”
June 24, 2012 at 11:35 am
Now that you’ve found the breeding ground the question is how can we make vasectomies hip?
June 24, 2012 at 11:37 am
Introduce the idea of an “ironic vasectomy”?
June 24, 2012 at 2:29 pm
I think I love you (or maybe it’s just a pink triangle thing).
June 24, 2012 at 5:47 pm
they’re already hip. you have to understand, hipsters are born to non-hipsters. it’s not genetic, it’s something in the water.
June 24, 2012 at 3:20 pm
So did someone call an exterminator?
June 24, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Anyone work at a PBR brewery (if one can call a garden hose and urine samples a brewery) and willing to add birth control to the mix?
June 24, 2012 at 5:34 pm
Ha! I’ll bet it was near Columbia. My son is a student there and this describes half of the student population. (Son’s affectations include hipster beard, Greek fisherman hat, flannel shirt, and CD player)
June 24, 2012 at 6:02 pm
So, do they weld skateboards, or do they weld on skateboards? The first one sounds too much like a job and the second one doesn’t sound ironic enough.
June 26, 2012 at 3:15 am
Isn’t that what Occupy turned into?
June 24, 2012 at 9:41 am
I’m surprised we’re still seeing things acquired at Jeffrey Dahmer’s estate sale.
June 24, 2012 at 9:47 am
If they get $75 for the sack, and $25 for the cot and blanket on Craig’s List, they might be able to upgrade the guest room with a a “Baakaeki” Ikea bed.
June 24, 2012 at 3:23 pm
This is the master suite. You don’t want to see the guest room.
June 24, 2012 at 9:47 am
I smell a Hobo Wedding Night!
June 24, 2012 at 9:52 am
If the blanket still has any of the original smallpox infection of it, it would also be good for a genocide-themed sleepover.
June 24, 2012 at 9:57 am
Hey, a little off-subject, but did you know that the British invented that adorable little smallpox-infested-blanket trick during the French-Indian War? And that the British also pioneered the use of concentration camps during the Boer War? Gosh, the innovation!
June 24, 2012 at 10:06 am
I think the British did it to the Native Americans way before the French Indian War, didn’t they?
June 24, 2012 at 10:08 am
They absolutely did.
June 24, 2012 at 10:18 am
Good old Brits – decimating the world one country at a time…
June 24, 2012 at 3:22 pm
That’s civilization for you!
June 24, 2012 at 10:58 am
Don’t feel bad, Nazis. You may not have invented genocide, concentration camps, book-burning or the swastika but you still totally own the gas chamber thing and adding the monocle to all that other stuff.
June 24, 2012 at 11:50 am
They own the shit out of that mustache, too.
June 24, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Did somebody say swastika rehabilitation? Well, too fucking bad, because I’m going to post about it anyway.
http://main.aol.com/2012/06/22/swastika-rehabilitation-day_n_1619281.html
Of course, it’s the Raelians who are trying to reclaim it…
June 24, 2012 at 2:24 pm
And the German microwave, it seats twelve!
June 24, 2012 at 10:19 am
That’s a Buffy Sainte-Marie blanket, if ever I saw one.
June 24, 2012 at 11:31 am
Literally smell it I imagine.
June 24, 2012 at 1:42 pm
For hobosexuals.
June 24, 2012 at 9:50 am
It’s a “transitional bedding set” for recent parolees who don’t want to jump straight into regular bedding right away.
June 24, 2012 at 11:36 am
Roommate named “Crusher” extra?
June 24, 2012 at 12:01 pm
It comes with a “sounds of the prison yard” cd that features a soundscape of locking gates, cafeteria stabbings and muffled sobbing.
June 24, 2012 at 9:54 am
the link to *Faded* cracks me up.
June 24, 2012 at 10:20 am
Ah, one of my all-time favorite “garbage on Etsy” items!
This really is a huge fail for the seller–for the fact that no flowery story was written for the description! Much more effort is needed if you want to be a true cupcake.
June 24, 2012 at 10:31 am
Upcycled shroud.
June 24, 2012 at 10:32 am
June 24, 2012 at 10:39 am
Sorry–Photobucket not working today.
June 24, 2012 at 12:30 pm
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u319/maxruehl/Forum%20Pics/Pillow_of_Turin.jpg
June 24, 2012 at 5:59 pm
*slow clap*
June 24, 2012 at 10:51 am
It doesn’t even cover the pillow.
IT DOESN’T EVEN COVER THE PILLOW!
WHAT IS THIS I DON’T –
*head caves in*
June 24, 2012 at 11:16 am
From New York’s finest $100.00 a night hotel!
June 24, 2012 at 3:57 pm
It would have to be far less than that! My last trip to NYC was to a Days Inn in Queens for $88.99/night. Aside from being very squishy and a 45 minute walk to the subway, it was remarkably clean and had functioning AC during one of the hottest heatwaves in recent memory. Not to mention the free froot-O’s and coffee for breakfast.
June 25, 2012 at 8:32 am
Looks more like one of those pay-by-the-hour places to me.
Not that I’ve ever been in one…….
June 24, 2012 at 11:55 am
This is what I need to put in the guest room when the in-laws (or other similarly unwanted guests) come to stay! Totally worth $75 if it greatly decreases the odds of them sleeping over…
June 24, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Pair that with a dirty mattress in the corner and you’ve got the perfect porn set. Not that we’ve ever been on a porn set …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mixedspecies/3255427121
XoXo
-the Mixed Species guys-
June 24, 2012 at 6:30 pm
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June 24, 2012 at 12:23 pm
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June 24, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Hey – those cats are cleaning off the pillow case!
June 24, 2012 at 12:24 pm
http://i54.tinypic.com/qqwe8o.jpg
June 24, 2012 at 12:51 pm
This is for the new spread of “dying of consumption in a Victorian era prison decor” magazine.
June 24, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Shabby *sheik*??? As in, he’s such a shabby sheik he has tie a feed back onto his pillow with twine? http://www.amazon.com/Lassie-Shabby-Sheik-Little-Book/dp/B0007HKKY2
June 24, 2012 at 1:20 pm
It smells like dirty hair and skids.
June 24, 2012 at 3:08 pm
That’s gross and awesome.
June 24, 2012 at 1:25 pm
This is from the “Sling Blade” collection.
June 24, 2012 at 1:49 pm
I’m trying to imagine the backstory – something about going through grandma’s attic after the Centre for Disease Control had lifted the quarantine. Finding this ultra rare slipcover brought back so many memories: the overpowering stench of cat urine in the lounge, Grandma making you sandwiches with bread that you’d dumpster-dived for that morning, how she’d let you keep the light on all night to keep the giant cockroaches at bay, sometimes she’d even lend you her own special mallet…….ah happy days.
That’s why that plague-infested rag costs 75 dollars – those memories are literally priceless!!
June 24, 2012 at 2:02 pm
I am so skeeved out I have nothing witty or sarcastic to say.
June 24, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Reading the title I’d hoped I’d get something Zelda-related…
All I got was the scratchiest looking pillowcase I’ve ever seen, if you can call it that since it doesn’t even cover the pillow.
June 24, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Skeevy, skeevy, skeevy. Did the artist do all the drooling? Or were assistant droolers hired on?
June 24, 2012 at 9:38 pm
The droolers are part of the collective. Make no mistake, though, the artist had a hand in this as a drool designer.