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heinous!

actually, they're not so bad looking. i just don't see the point in them, when a real tree stump painted or lacquered would be so much more "alluring."

Not to the tree.

That's not a stump. It's a small fiberglass table with a rumpled cloth on it coated in gel stuff. It's amorphic, but not in any way life-like. It makes an okay little table or stool, but it is not a stump: no grain, no circles, nothing bark-like etc...

They're hideous. But not in a good way.

Jeezus, enough with the stumps already!!!

Will 2007 go down in history as "The Year of the Stump"? It think it could...

2007 is already "Year of the Antler" but, whatever, I feel your pain.

But, seriously folks, what's happening? We've got all manner of stump stools rendered in ceramic, fiberglass, and...um...stump, rugs that like look like redwood cross-sections, coffee tables made of giant slabs of wood, antlers up the wazoo (just check out the latest Pottery Barn catalog). And has anyone else noticed the rebirth of taxidermy? Guess it makes sense that we fetishize the natural world since most of us see more pavement than trees.

It's the flowering of the new "green" movement: decorate your home with plastic fetishes of natural items, switch to CFLs, and congratulate yourself for buying "local" produce that was trucked hundreds of miles from upstate or Jersey. Voila! You've just saved the earth. Don't you feel better now?