Hi, Carol!! I am rushing off to watch the season premiere of the Antiques Roadshow, but before I go I wanted to turn you on to the Pez Museum in Burlingame, which is very near San Francisco. It is a wonderful place, and you can learn a lot more about Pez there than from me.
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I only have about eighty Pez!! I have only been collecting them for a couple of years, and am not doing it to get rich--so many people, including Jerry Seinfeld, collect Pez now that I so many being saved they probably won't be worth much. I like them because the are colorful, happy, innocent figures, and I keep them in the bookcase behind the computer, in front of the books. Not very practical!! The cats always knock them down, as does the wind, and it's hard to access books.
I have bought all of mine new, at stores and the Pez Museum, until this Sunday, when I was at the local flea market and bought two old ones from a dealer. He knew a lot about Pez, but was drunk at nine in the morning, and willing to let them go for $2.00 apiece. Anyway, cheap thrill, but it made me feel like a more official collector.
I like the clothes outfits, which are only sold at the museum, and in former British colonies apparently. Right now I have Fred Flinstone in a red dress with matching pumps, and a blue plastic purse. He is very, um, San Francisco!!!
Fiona Apple and Jewel sing songs that are similar in a way, heartfelt, mostly soft songs they write themselves. MSB knows a lot about them, incidentally. Jewel's CD, Pieces of You, is so strikingly beautiful it is hard to imagine anyone NOT liking it. They are both young, and very beautiful in my opinion. Fiona is from New York City, and Jewel is from Alaska. They are both very popular, Jewel perhaps a little more famous, although Fiona won best new artist at the Grammies a few weeks ago.
Later, and have fun at the museum!! |
