April 15, 2009

Matching tins!

Bought years apart. Small tin from a Toronto (I think, or Halifax?) Value Village at least five years ago. Big tin last summer at a gas station in New Brunswick for $3! In their back room they had vintage items for sale.





If you look closely: in Brokeback Mountain after the two guys reunite and the wife watches them make out through the window, there is a scene in the front hallway of the apartment. On the shelves in the background—one of these tins!! Exactly the same.

Famous.

I keep colored pencils in them.
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM

    Damn! I have a matching tin - not sure if it is the small one or the big one. Got it at Garage sale in northern Ontario two summers ago for $2. Thanks for further contextualizing one of my favorite finds - I knew it had queer connotations. By the way I keep cotton balls Q-tips and Band Aids in mine - placed neatly on a shelf in my washroom.

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  2. brooklyn_codgerApril 17, 2009 at 8:18 AM

    dude - we have matching tins! we should all get together sometime (you, me, the tins, you know...)

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  3. adhuntApril 17, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    i had one of these but my friend beat it up with a stick when he was drunk.

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  4. brooklyn_codgerApril 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM

    then did you beat up your friend up with a stick?

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