October 12, 2012 – 11:13 pm
Rachel Tepper from The Huffington Post recently sat down with our very own Shana Iverson, High Priestess of Rubber Chickens, to discuss a few of our favorite topics, Bacon, weird candy and other food-related products, and their ever-increasing popularity in popular culture. Read the article here.
October 10, 2012 – 5:05 pm
We’re great fans of cephalopods. (You know, octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and so on.) In fact, the Archie McPhee store even has a bathtub full of Finger Tentacles, including one ginormous tentacle: So we were delighted to learn about International Cephalopod Awareness Days. October 8th through the 12th is all about celebrating cephalopods, “the most intelligent [...]
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Tagged Archie McPhee, Bathtub, Cephalopods, cephdays, Cthulhu Tentacles, Dan'l, Finger Tentacles, ICAD, International Cephalopod Awareness Days, Jackie, Maika, Mug, Octopus, Scalp Massager, Squid, Tentacle Mustache, Tentacles, Tentacular
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October 5, 2012 – 6:51 pm
This is our attempt to give you a virtual taste of the stark, nut-scented horror you’ll experience when drinking from the Squirrel Attack Porcelain Mug. At the bottom of every mugful of coffee, an angry squirrel lies in wait. Caffeine only makes them angrier. Tea upsets them too. And don’t get us started on the [...]
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Tagged Angry, Animated, Attack, Beverage, Coffee, Coffee Cup, Drinking, Funny, Gif, Horror, Mug, Porcelain, Scary, squirrel, Squirrel Attack
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September 29, 2012 – 1:40 pm
What do Unicorns: Bacon: and Underpants all have in common?: Easy! They’re each categories of awesome stuff available on the entirely redone Archie McPhee website: It’s all so fancy and new. Check it out. (Pictured above: Aura the unicorn created by Indigo-Ocean, Bacon Lamp Shade by Kris Kelley, and “Goat Dressing” at the Liberty Stampede [...]
September 18, 2012 – 11:08 pm
Ahoy, matey! As afficionados of pirate paraphernalia we’re happy to report that today, September 19th, is the 10th anniversary of International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Blimey! Visit the official Talk Like a Pirate Day website to brush-up on all the pertinent pirate lingo and get to work on expertly rolling your rrrrrr’s. Savvy? Then [...]
September 14, 2012 – 8:01 pm
We love spotting our Horse Head Mask being used and enjoyed in the most unexpected places. We always suspected that it could be useful in any number of situations, but our customers continually demonstrate that there is truly no limit to the possible applications. People have incorporated the Horse Head Mask into wedding photos: It [...]
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Tagged Animal, Coonhound, costume, creepy, Dance, Disguise, Dog, Groom, Head, Horse, Horse Head Mask, Japan, LOL, Maddie, Mask, Passenger, Plane, Race, Reading, Sighting, Spotting, video, Wedding
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September 7, 2012 – 6:36 pm
This has got to be one of most unusual surprises we’ve ever received at the Archie McPhee store: These awesome customers brought us a great big version of our beloved Bibo character made entirely out of balloons. This might just be the best balloon animal ever. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: [...]
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Tagged Awesome, Balloon Animal, Balloons, bibo, Character, Customers, Gift, Present, Surprise, Weird
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August 29, 2012 – 4:45 pm
The art world (and much of the internet) has been in a tizzy recently about a well-meaning elderly Spanish woman’s thoroughly botched attempt to restore a 19th centure fresco entitled Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) by Elias Garcia Martinez. For more than a century the painting has held price of place at the Sanctuary of [...]
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Tagged action figure, Archie McPhee, Ecce Homo, Elias Garcia Martinez, Fresco, jesus, Jesus Action Figure, monkey, Monkey Finger Puppet, Painting, Parody, Restoration
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August 18, 2012 – 7:40 pm
The Archie McPhee store now has its very own YouTube channel! Never again will you be at a loss for entertainment when there’s nothing good on TV. Subscribe to the Archie McPhee store YouTube channel so you don’t miss out on a single weird, wonderful, wonderfully weird, or weirdly wonderful video. You’ll be treated to [...]
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Tagged Archie McPhee, Channel, Customers, Dan'l, Dancing, Entertainment, Gas Mask, Seattle, store, Videos, Wacky, Weird, Wonderful, Yodelling Pickle, YouTube
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August 11, 2012 – 11:13 pm
We’d like to tell you to tell you about an awesome young man named Sam: Superman Sam is a six year old boy with a generous smile, a great sense of humor, and a fondness for frogs, turtles, and comic books. We like Sam. Sam also has acute myeloid leukemia. Cancer is terrible and fighting [...]
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