A Day to Remember Art by Westal Bradford Exchange

This commodity is part of the The Bradford Exchange serial.

The date was September eleven, 2001. Jennifer Lopez was heating up the music charts, The Musketeer was number i at the box office, and homicidal religious fanatics were flying planes into skyscrapers. Needless to say, things were crazy.

Thousands lost their lives in a series of horrific terrorist attacks that prepare in motility a decade'due south worth of war and all the carnage and suffering that brings. The globe changed dramatically. Thankfully, things are manner amend at present, and we can look back on that terrible twenty-four hours as an opportunity. That's what Bradford Exchange is doing. Without that rascal Osama bin Laden and his howling commandos, we wouldn't have these terrific products to buy.

i:24-Scale Tony Stewart 9/11 Tribute Diecast Auto

Nosotros all react to tragedy in different ways. Some of united states of america mourn and honour the dead with song, moving eulogies or sacrifice, others pigment tributes on miniature race cars festooned with the logos of our favorite corporate sponsors. To be fair, I think calling this a nine/11 Tribute is a flake misleading. True, information technology has patriotic colors, but so do a lot of things that have nothing to do with 9/11, such equally paper plates, napkins and my underwear. If you're attempting to profit from a tragedy, there'southward really no need for creative restraint.

September 11th Tribute Lighthouse Sculpture With Kinkade Fine art

Of class that big, drunkard, public-urinating oaf Thomas Kinkade would have to throw his two-chimneyed lid into the ix/11 exploitation ring. Behold, the Painter of Calorie-free's thoughtful tribute to a catastrophic event: One of his sometime paintings plastered on the side of a shabby lighthouse sculpture. Way to phone it in. With his relentless and senseless product licensing, Thomas Kinkade is basically what would happen if George Lucas had been raised in an attic by an abusive floral-print vest.

"We Will Never Forget" Commemorative Chronograph Sentry

Twice a day, at ix:11 am and nine:xi pm, this watch plays the entirety of "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue" by country music meathead Toby Keith. Not since the Slick Willy backwards-running watch has a timepiece and so absorbed a nation. Whenever somebody asks you lot for the time, you could remind them of that fateful day when 3,000 people got murdered. You're so much fun. People like y'all!

Patriotic Sculptures Honour Anniversary of September xi

Hither we run across the Twin Towers in better days, wearing the American flag like a fat hairy human being wears a towel in the locker room. Peradventure this is like one of those creepy anatomically right fake babies the Bradford Commutation sells, and so the flag is there to cover up the naughty $.25.

10th Ceremony September 11th Tribute Eagle Figurine

You tin can't really mention the Bradford Substitution without a garish hawkeye swooping in to steal the scene. This particular eagle sports some sweet tats: The American flag, the Twin Towers in all their glory, and Lady Liberty herself. If you inquire me, I'm a fleck sick of the Eagle's drama queen behavior. Can't we have i national tragedy without this dumb bird showing up and crying its eyes out? We tin practice that ourselves, bird. All you really care near anyway is stealing fish from more industrious avians and feasting on garbage. Some national symbol you are.

September 11th Motorcycle Figurines With Patriotic Art

This is it. This is where they finally cast those pesky reservations bated and went for it. They put the Twin Towers' eerie ghosts on the side of an ugly candy-colored motorcycle figurine. The lack of thought and understanding here is then staggering it's almost quaint and lovable, similar when Chinese bootleggers put Obama's face on a backpack underneath the Pokemon logo. It's adorable because they have no idea what they're doing and deep down within everybody loves unauthorized merchandise. Come to think of it, the Bradford Exchange being a behemothic front for some crazy Chinese company with an extremely poor agreement of Americana would brand a ton of sense and explain the amazing absurdity of their entire product line. Let's go with that. Mystery solved!

–Josh "Livestock" Boruff (@Livestock)

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