05-19-2014, 08:47 AM
There are two ways to look at it. On the one hand, a gift shop full of tacky tragedy souvenirs is crass and classless and trashy, yes. But those gift shops often help keep the museum running because those places are notoriously underfunded. Look at Gettysburg. They sell shit every day that somebody dug up from the battlefield. Some of it undoubtedly dropped from a corpse. But if funds the museum.
Second, trashy and classless souvenirs is almost a NYC trademark. If they had snow globes with collapsing buildings and glitter shaped like bodies I'd be all over that. And I'd love a chunk of debris for the historical record. It's like touching history.
Second, trashy and classless souvenirs is almost a NYC trademark. If they had snow globes with collapsing buildings and glitter shaped like bodies I'd be all over that. And I'd love a chunk of debris for the historical record. It's like touching history.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.