'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

The most challenging thing I did all Saturday daytime was played Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets because J can't be bothered to play it herself. We were going to go to the Disney Store to return the shoddy High School Musical pompoms that dropped half their erm, whatever the things a pompom is made of are called, lametta type stuff, all over the floor, but I couldn't even be bothered to do that (which of course meant I had to do it yesterday with a concussion, oops, but otoh that meant we were next to HMV which = Lady Gaga goodness).