January 16, 2013

Like a Mad Scientist (Without the Science)

I received these today from the Ukraine...


this from "cowboyray45" in Montrose, Colorado...

and this a while ago from Guangdong, China.
(Say "hello" to my little friend)
I am up to no good here, that's for sure.

December 25, 2012

Soup is Good Food

reads: "With artificial ram goat flavor"

December 2, 2012

"Freaken Duck"

"Product Description: What you are bidding on is taxidermy bird double-headed freaken duck with a base.  It is cute, adorable and freaken weird at the same time...  All our birds are from breeding farm and natural dead. You can keep it as a collection or for education purpose to kids."


October 15, 2012

Better Velib It

Each morning I climb boulevard Pasteur to Place de Catalogne, my Velib vanquishing all others, leaving young and old alike in its wake. Then comes the realization: it is- technically speaking- a "girl's bike," bereft of a top tube. With this boyhood recollection comes the overwhelming urge to clothes-pin some baseball cards onto the seat stay to pluck the spokes.