Video trailer for new book: Crap at My Parents' House

[Video Link] Here's the trailer for a funny book called Crap at My Parents' House.

Crap at My Parents’ House is a laugh-out-loud celebration of all the weird, odd, and unfathomably tacky stuff that our moms and dads accumulate without our knowledge or consent. Comedian Joel Dovev has compiled and commented upon the best (or would that be worst?) items submitted by folks from around the globe in a very funny—but fair—way, revealing all those dirty secrets that range from deer hoof bottle openers and plush Oscar Meyer Wienermobiles to soccer-playing Jesus ceramics and grizzly bear toilet paper holders. Whether you’re 15 or 65 and still shaking your head at your mom and dad’s decorating choices, Crap at My Parents’ House is a reason to be thankful for parents being so unintentionally hilarious.

My parent's have a collection of crap, too, which they keep in their basement in a cabinet of ugliness, but they do it intentionally. They have exquisite taste in home decor.

Crap at My Parents' House

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1345484064 Nancy J Gill

Turnabout is fair play – what could YOUR parents point out in your dwelling that is crap?

Your parents’ “crap” probably includes those Xmas tree ornaments or plaster hand/foot prints you made for them in nursery school that they have kept out of love for you rather than any esthetic pleasure derived from owning same.
- Brainspore
  
  Turnabout is fair play – what could YOUR parents point out in your dwelling that is crap?
  
  That responsibility doesn’t fall to our parents, it will fall to our children. It’s a time-honored social contract from one generation to the next, like social security or how everybody gets to declare “music today is crap” at some point.
  - AnthonyC
    
    I, for one, am more than willing to step back and say that at all times, nearly all then-popular music has been crap, and that this will continue to be true. Rather, over time most of the crap is forgotten, and so the farther back we go the more over-represented “timeless classics” seem to be.
    We still remember a little of the crap from the 60′s, but how many bad composers’ or bards’ works from the 17th century can you name, or even find in a museum?
betatron

I am engaged in a years-long campaign to afflict my girlfriend with stuffed rats exactly like the one in the video.
Guest

I’ll just make note of this as another good reason I’m glad we didn’t have children – there will be no one to mock the state of our ’estate’.
http://www.aculei.net/~eredien/ CP-S

So…now I can get a book about other people’s crap that will sit on my coffee table and eventually become crap.
- http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch
  
  Whoa… that’s sooooo meta!
Chas44

Why would a parent need the “knowledge or consent” of their kids to have stuff around their house? Who cares what they collect or display? They might call some of my stuff “crap,” too.
Guest

Step one: think of a blog that will easily go viral (“hipster chuthulu?” “zombie hipsters?”)
Step two: make blog, mine community for content
Step three: go to publisher, tell them that you “have over two million views!” (Number can be fudged)
Step four: Mega Profits, despite having done no writing or thinking
http://ae4rv.com/ royaltrux

I look forward to seeing this in a bookstore and thumbing through it for about a minute. That will be cool.
dculberson

I myself have plush hot dog hats rescued from the waste stream of a local restaurant. My wife and I wear them to be obnoxious. HOT DOG HATS! WITH FELT MUSTARD! How could they be thrown away!?
gerbalblaste

I, for one, am glad approximately 1/2 of that video was an individual arranging the title of the book out of magazine clippings.
Guest

I howled with laughter until I was about forty, everytime someone gave my mother another hummingbird geegaw for her collection. It’s a lot less funny now. Her passion for that stuff has long since burned out. It’s the sort of crap people keep on giving, because they don’t know what else to buy and they want to give something. The crap industry must employee millions and make billions every year.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I howled with laughter until I was about forty, everytime someone gave my mother another hummingbird geegaw for her collection.
  
  Some guy wrote an article a few years back about how he was coming home from parts foreign, had a bit of left over foreign money, and bought a little souvenir elephant at the airport. Everyone decided that he must adore elephants, so a decade later, he had a roomful of elephant ‘art’ of all descriptions. At least he never had to pretend to like another ugly tie or novelty barbeque apron.
jenjen

Oh yes, never tell anyone you collect something – you’ll never get anything else and eventually you will grow to despise it.
- Matt Foreman
  
  I collect Leica cameras from the 30′s through current models. Will that work?
- drukqs
  
  Simple – just tell people you’re building a collection of dollar bills.
paul

The big question is whether it will be funny when they die or go into a nursing home and it’s your job to clean it out. Or maybe it will only be funny then.
http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

great book for your parent’s coffee table.
tylerkaraszewski

Dude is a dick and and while kitschy his parents’ stuff is not that horrible. I bet his dad *loves* that old car and just doesn’t have the time to work on it.

This is sort of the rough equivalent of a parent telling their child how much they suck at baseball or how bad their art is.
- gwailo_joe
  
  I think it’s a girl…somehow. Some of the objects (dildo icon) are pretty tacky; but the forever-project-car in the garage…that gives any wife a hell of a lot of leeway.
  
  Still: I laughed (and I’d like more pics of the car…)
Halloween Jack

Soooo… another blog-to-book, based on reader submissions? Is this market not tapped out already? Ultimately, I blame Rich Hall and Sniglets.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=714226444 Chris Landry

That video is pretty crappy.
EeyoreX

So, it’s basically the antithesis of this snarky-blog-to-book then: http://www.amazon.com/Look-This-cking-Hipster-Mande/dp/0312624972
Put them on the shelf next to each other and they’ll totally cancel each other out.
EH

Shit My Dad Has.
JhmL

Nothing in this world beats playing with your pussy.
Pat Cahill

This happily reminds me of the book “When I’m Dead All This Will Be Yours: Joe Teller — A Portrait By His Kid
” by Teller (of Penn and Teller)

http://www.amazon.com/When-Dead-This-Will-Yours/dp/0922233225/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314940762&sr=1-5

I just love his expression on the cover…
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519X6WYKJAL._SS500_.jpg
Thad_E_Ginathom

All rather ageist. Your parents do not need your approval of their taste, or consent for what they do in their lives or collect in their homes.

Grow up!