just checkin’ in mid-vacation at a hostel in halifax.  here’s some highlights from my trip thus far:

wolverines on bibles on the US-canadian border:

googly-eyed lemon slices:

lobster-people roaming the streets in apparent distress:

here we saw a woman chasing after a man who has stole the bottom portion of her papasan chair:

gnome pinup photos:

possibly the best movie ever:

questionable labor policies in new brunswick:

more to come. hooray.

… I have been crazed preparing for a roadtrip to the maritime provences of canada with my dearlingest best friend. And admidst all the hubbub I forgot about NSTGD.

I hope that perhaps this will help you forgive me:

That’s right.  It’s Baconhenge.

I hope to blog from the road…

I subscribe to a 3.98 gaflillion (approx) rss feeds.

While catching up, I noticed a link on we-make-money-not-art’s feed to a wired artcle called “a nation of guinea pigs” - which, oh my god, promised to be the most amazing article ever written - A whole nation?! full of guinea pigs?! where? what are their primary exports? is the kinship system lineal or dravidian? etcetera.

and anyway.

the article was obviously not about that, at all*.

but to assuage my intense disappointment, I made the following:

that is all.

*apparently drug companies are exploiting corrupt south asian health regulations to perform questionably ethical clinical trials on lots and lots of resource-deprived people. which is awful. and not to be made fun of.

I truly hit the Internets jackpot here, my dearlings. but you know what, I’m going to shush-up because, behold! the pictures speak for themselves:

for your consideration, “hair hats“, by japanese artist, nagi noda

please, PLEASE, let this trend catch on.

via designboom.

If pressed, I could certainly think of far worse blog-schticks to become mildly famous for than for all my slug-talk recently. and thus, here’s summore:

hug-a-slug!

darling plush nudibranches can be bought by you in the passive voice on weirdbuglady’s etsy shop here.

Surrealist Slugs

my wonderously wonderous newfie friend miss lisa has shared with me the following finalist for the National Film Theatre/Hayward Gallery’s 60-Second Surreal competition, “the room”: starring, obviously, a slug or, the shadow of a slug. (to watch, click here and select “the room”)

*at least it does in kafka on the shore. well, leeches. ok so leeches and slugs aren’t the same. blablabla who died and made you Captain Science?**

**it has been a long, long week.

I’ve been bookmarking affordable art stuffs over the last few months and it’s time to share! this may become a series. my love of the following burns with the fire of one thousand suns.

Cardinal & Deer by Berkeley Illustration, buy here for $7-$15. They are just so stately-looking.

if only we could wear pants & Up to no good, marc johns, buy his prints here: $16-$20.

antler girl and horse hostess by Ashley Alexander (or “I’m Smitten”), buy here for $40 each. adore. also, I appreciate another opportunity to use my cryptozoology tag.

and last, but in no way least… No one wants to play sega with Harrison Ford, Brandon Bird, buy here for $7.99 (unsigned). and if you aren’t into lime green, it comes in many alternate shades of awesome.

just tellin’ it like it is:

note: should anyone decide to make a movie about me, please hire a british 1970s-nature-documentary narrator. thank you.

Mr. Toledano takes pictures of recently-emptied bankrupt business offices.  They are funny but not funny: haha, more like funny: whoa-I-didn’t-think-it-was-possible-for-cubicled-fluorescent-lighted-
offices-to-look-even-more-depressing.