A glimpse into the Collectory mind and stuff of Wilkins-O'Riley Zinn, proprietor of Dr. Z's House of Fun, The House of Stuff, and The Amuseum of Un-Natural History, all at Happy Rabbits Farm.

1. The House of Stuff

2. A presentation fromDr. Z’s House of FunWilkins-O’RileyZinn Ah, good taste!What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. • Pablo Picasso

3. It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.• Learned hand It’s the day after Thanksgiving and I’m putting things into place, the slow kaleidoscopic falling of this-here-that-there that follows every move. I cannot NOT live like this and I like the stuff and love handling it even though having no staging area where I can look at all of it is difficult. I work the puzzle even as I stand in the midst of it. I say to Jim that this is a distillation—it’s been an installation, dismantled, given away, packed, stored—and now—less is still more than most people have, but it’s less than I want. Ah, to own a museum and live in the middle of it—The House of Stuff! • W-OZ journal, November 24, 2006

4. My first alligator

5. Welcome home Is it weird in here, or is it just me? • Stephen Wright

6. Making Home My familiars are falling into place and their craft works on me. They satisfy, delight, comfort, entrance. They feel like home. • W-OZ diary, December 20, 2006

7. It’s an odd world.• Timothy Spall

8. ROBOTS and totem poles

9. And more robots. And globes. And mannequins. And suitcases. And old radios.

10. Colored lights and mannequins If given a choice, I’ll buy a mannequin instead of shoes.

11. And hundreds of masks! A I like it Because it’s ugly. • William S. Burroughs

12. A colleague sees my RoboJoe Robot and says that it looks just like his most favorite Christmas present ever when he was about five years old. Stuff evokes memories. I call my things evocateurs.

13. There Are Stories In the stuff

14. The Lady on the Coke Machine Ask me about how I traded a James Bond game for a working Coca Cola machine. Lesson: Don’t be drunk and obnoxious at someone’s party. You might be sorry!

15. The Church pew We bought a van because of this. . .

16. The more a thing is filed away, the more totally useless it is. A sweet disorder in the desk at least ensures that the whole thing is ploughed through often enough for useful things to come to the surface. • Katherine Whitehorn

17. You can’t get a bookcase in this country for love or money. They’ve filled them with all their hideous knick-knacks and they’re NOT LETTING GO! •Lucy Ellmann about England

18. I can’t find anything normal here.• Exchange student/visitor, 2007 The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. • Joe Ancis

19. There’s no harm in being a little eccentric.• Amanda Peet, Martian Child

20. I tell people one of the more fascinating places I’ve ever been in my life is my daughter’s bathroom. • My mother, July 12, 2006

21. The old lady She’s always the first picture hung.

22. I’ve always loved school ephemera. I used to make my brothers and sisters take weekly spelling tests.

23. I know you are, but what am I? I like the decorum. • Tricker or treater about The House of Stuff, Halloween, 1997

24. You can be better dressed when you own a lot of stuff. • Helen Gurley Brown

25. If there is anythingI hate, It is collecting.• William James Oh, William. You’d change your mind if you could visit The Amuseum of Un-Natural History, The Oddservatory, and The Endearium, all to be found at The House of Stuff.

26. We Are shaped and fashioned by what we love.• johan wolfgang von Goethe You’ve done a nice job decorating the White House. • Jessica Simpson to the Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, during a tour of the White House

27. It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shellsthan to be born a millionaire.• Robert Louis Stevenson

28. It’s kind of handy to have a family you can call and ask if they have a milk bottle and a milkman’s hat—and they do! • Josh Zinn, May 26, 2007

30. I think we’re all pretty odd.• Michael Tippett

31. Th-th-th-that’s all, folks, from Happy Rabbits Farm, home of The House of Stuff!