the thing itself and not the myth

I fell down a bit on my picture of the day project in November. I blame work exploding and also me being lazy. Let’s make up for it now. As usual, click through to Flickr to embiggen.

It being the holiday season, Seattle’s Nutcracker March (flash, music) has begun. To my great horror. The first nutcracker I saw was actually kind of cute…

…though the last time I looked at the site there were only John & Paul nutcrackers, no George and Ringo. What’s up with that?

Regardless, around the corner was a TERRIBLE nutcracker, that I have to look at every day because I catch my bus there.

Yup. A Jack Sparrow nutcracker. Just what we all needed.

Now, to be fair, there are some traditional nutcrackers. That’s okay. For example, there’s this fellow at Pacific Place, apparently based on the first nutcracker ever. Or whatever.

And there’s this Seattle-themed one, which is okay.

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After the jump, meet the two most horrific of this year’s nutcrackers, at least that I have seen so far, and to soften the blow a bit, my current favorite non-Beatle nutcracker.

This, for a while, was the worst nutcracker ever. A Jimi Hendrix nutcracker. Who even thinks these things up?

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But it was nothing, NOTHING I TELL YOU, next to the nutcracker that forced me to stop dead in my tracks at Sixth & Union, utterly speechless in the middle of a phone call with Kat.

IT IS AN AUDREY HEPBURN IN BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS NUTCRACKER. Here, have a closeup.

Sorry about that. It was so horrible, I had to share! I was mortified taking pictures of it. I was afraid people would think I *liked* it. Sigh.

To end with, my favorite!

Yup! The Tin Man! You can’t see it in the photo, but he’s wearing Dorothy’s shoes. If you click through, though, you can see that he has a nose ring. Awesome.

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