Category: Photos

You may be aware of the phenomenon of animal hoarding. Teresa Nielsen Hayden has written about it:

Basically, hoarders accumulate an impossible number of animals–more than they can care or provide for, and far too many for the available space. Their quarters rapidly become a stew of filth, misery, and suffering animals.

It’s an odd, disturbing, and pitiable pattern of behaviour. But as the Singing Branson proved, nothing is too off-beat for the tacky gift shops of Piedmont Avenue. Here is the “Crazy Cat Lady Action Figure (How many cats do you have?)”, on display in a shop window just down the street from the purveyor of fine Bransons:

Half funny, half offensive…all tasteless.

Found in the window of an outlandish and tacky gift shop on Piedmont Avenue the day we arrived: this colourful bust apparently representing a singing, guitar-playing Sir Richard Branson. They didn’t quite get the gap between his front teeth right, but apart from that….