These life sized pigs by Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz are chairs…of sorts.
I’m reminded of Helena Bonham Carter yelling “I need a pig here!” (to rest her feet on) in the new Alice in Wonderland film.
Swanky swines in your home…yay or nay?
Tag: absurd
-
Just after the debut of the Double Down, KFC is launching Buckets For The Cure to promote breast cancer awareness. The fast-food outlet will donate 50 cents for every pink bucket of chicken, with the ultimate goal of raising $8.5 million dollars.
I am all for breast cancer awareness, but do I even to state the irony of this charitable effort?
I actually want one of the buckets as a novelty keepsake though.
-
Three cheers for innovative services!
This sinister looking clown is laughing all the way to the bank by hiring himself out to birthday parties to terrify youngsters.
Actor Dominic Deville had the brainwave after watching his favourite horror movies and set up his Evil Clown service in Lucerne, Switzerland.
First he contacts ‘victims’ to tell them they’re being watched.
Then he taunts them with texts, phone calls and booby trapped letters warning them that at sometime in their party he’s going to smash a cake into their face.
“It’s all in fun and if at any point the kids get scared or their parents are concerned we stop right there. But most kids absolutely love being scared senseless,” explained clown Dominic.
-
-
I’ve already seen a nice array of online April Fools Day pranks today, but one of my all time favorites has to be the Spaghetti Tree Hoax of 1957.
The BBC current affairs program Panorama told a tale of a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the fictitious spaghetti tree, broadcast at a time when this Italian dish was not widely eaten in the UK and some Britons were unaware spaghetti is a pasta made from wheat flour and water. Hundreds of viewers phoned into the BBC, either to say the story was not true, or wondering about it, with some even asking how to grow their own spaghetti trees.
Here is the TV segment:
So, what food would you want to grow on trees?
-
I’m about to say something that might make me very unpopular: I’ve never done a thing for St. Patrick’s Day. I appreciate the idea of a cultural celebration, but perhaps I associate this day too heavily with those who use it as an excuse to get rip roaring drunk and puke on their own shoes…or someone else’s shoes.
But, since people seem to get very into this holiday, here are some goodies I dug up for the occasion.
Let’s bring on the crafts!
For a nice relaxing sleep after drunken festivities…
Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you…
I wonder if these were mass produced, and there are a bunch of people walking around brandishing one of the most irritating grammatical mistakes in the English language:
(If [your] not able to make a grammatically correct button, fake it!)I wish I had come up with the idea to slap a label on five green jelly beans and market it as a holiday novelty (at 800% profit per package).
Mmmm…tastes like psychosis.
Have fun…be safe…
-
I don’t have my camera USB cable at the moment so I can’t upload the fantastic ceramic toothpick holders I was given (among other amazing atrocities) for my birthday by the wonderful Stephanie and Matt. So until I can show my new acquisitions, I present Daisy the CowVintage Creamer:
The product description is awesome:
What better way to put a smile on your face first thing in the morning than to pour your milk from this little bovine sweetie! (And bake a batch of Chocolate Chocolate chip muffins?)
ADORable! With her BIG, beautiful blue eyes, and red lips! She has a cute little cow bell around her neck and sweet daisy’s on her front.
Sweet Daisy stands 6.5 inches tall. She is almost “perfect” condition, with the exception of one teeny chip along one of her horns (female cows can have horns, right?) I have taken a brown marker and touched it up, so she’s as good as new!
Ah Daisy, with your dead eyes and oddly rectangular mouth…there is none other quite like you…
-
Since I’m a bit of an image junkie (okay, a tremendous image junkie), my desktop is always filled with random pictures that struck my fancy during Internet perusals. I try to offload them daily because they pile up fast.
Here are a few lurking there right now, waiting to be filed.
This one’s getting me in the mood for an upcoming trip to Maine:
Check it out. A Krampus named “Walter” (I don’t care that it’s out of season):
And a treat from Thrifthorror…orthropedic high heels? Yes, someone manufactured this design. If anyone can find the Bumpers brand shoe site responsible, please share!
-
I love old educational videos, particularly the low budget variety. In this cautionary tale, two puppets tell us how to avoid hosting parasites.
The main message (overtly stated multiple times) is essentially “Do not defecate in the dirt outside your house.”
Really. They can’t stress that enough.
-
Has anyone actually seen these meaty expressions of love in supermarkets this week? Not a bad thing to cook up for your favorite carnivore as a Valentine.
SheWalksSoftly 