Kitsch

Kitsch n. Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: "When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch" (William H. Gass).

Just doing a round up from Conscientious and Alec Soth. The above cartoon is from the May 7 issue of The New Yorker in another weird example of

Synchronicity n. syn·chro·nic·i·ty (sĭng'krə-nĭs'ĭ-tē, sĭn'-)
1. The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.
2. Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality.