Obligatory Link Dump

[shanmonster]

Remember the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich I linked to the other day? Well, it sold for $28,000. Damn. I need to make me some BVMs.

Creating a Buzz: If Winona Ryder had tried this stunt, she might have gotten away with the shoplifting.

Sheep and Goats: If you dress as a goat and stalk Neil Gaiman, you might not be the first one to do so.

My Toy Sculpture: Oh wow! I wish I'd thought of this (thanks, fiachra)!

Arctic Folk at Loss for Words Again: Oh, those poor Inuit, inundated with critters they can't come up with words for. Puh-leez!

Books By the Foot: "We sell books by the foot and offer 2 catagories (sic) of books: Jeweltone at $9 a spine in quantities up to 250 and $8 a spine in quantities of 250+. Designer Mix are $13 a spine in quantities up to 250 and $12 a spine in quantities of 250+." This is so very, very wrong. I can see a restaurant or bar doing it, maybe, but if I go to someone's home and ask them about their books and they say, "Oh, I only bought it because it matches my curtains," I'll be tempted to slap them.

Croatia May Offer Holidays Behind Bars: Pay money to go to prison and eat stale bread. I wonder if it's too late to rent out my old barn and doghouse as an adventure hotel....

Collect Medical Antiques: Gorgeous, creepy, fascinating stuff. There's no way I'd let any dentist near my mouth with that stuff. Eek.

Comments

[chrysippvs.livejournal.com]

medical antiques

I collect vintage bloodletting devices as:



fun stuff...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I think these tools are fascinating. Someday, if I ever get the space, I'd like to start collecting strange medical Victoriana. A phrenology skull would be fun to have....

toast.

[node.livejournal.com]

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[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

Pay money to go to prison and eat stale bread

Methinks someone in the Croatia tourism department has been reading a wee bit too much bondage fiction on the Interweb...

[curtana.livejournal.com]

One good thing about those books-by-the-foot type of stores (there are a surprising number of them) is that they rarely know the value of the books they have. A prof of mine used to relate quite happily the story of how he found a fairly rare book in one such store and bought it for ... $4? Something ridiculously cheap, anyway. To them, it was just important that it was dark blue. ;)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind perusing this sort of store for just this reason.