As it turns out, the super-real and not-at-all mythological giftdonkey I discovered in Ethiopia last week, was not a bizarre crytpozoological anomaly: IT IS PART OF A MASSIVE GLOBAL GIFTDONKEY MOBILIZATION.

According to the NYTimes, giftdonkeys are now organizing in Colombia as “biblioburros” (awesome alliterative agnomen!) who deliver books to people in remote villages across the country.

Bigtime thank yous to randy, who unleashes randyhate.com unto the internets, for sharing.

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It’s akin to finding out that there are yeti reservations in madagascar.

the feeling I got when I saw this homage-to-the-giftdonkey in my inbox is akin to how I imagine I might feel if one day I arrived at work and discovered that my desk, computer and copier were actually pinatas filled with reeses pieces and world peace and what not, and that instead of a desk chair there was a bat that said “for meredith” on it, and maybe a lightening bolt like robert redford’s bat in ‘the natural’, and maybe there is also a freshly baked pineapple upside downcake there, and a bumper boats pool too.

and anyhow, THANK YOU INFINITELY, dearling rick-monkey.

I hereby and henceforward and thither and thus would like to introduce you all to the very-very-new-and-hip-and-now FangFriends.com - the project of miss Calamity J., a dear friend whose fanged-illustrations are a seamless ballet of bloody delightfulness. In return for some basic wordpress-setup/design, she has created the following NSTGD portrait:

i love it so, so much.  and I encourage everyone to draw their own gift-donkey portrait.

no, sadly, this is not a photo of my desk. I found it here, actually, and I love it. I love it forever.

apologies for the blog-crickets, all. I will resume regular NSTGD-bloggering post-haste.

Ben Kruisdijk & Conny Kuilboer’s “schlossstrasse”.

I know, I know.. it’s a cheap post, but you know what*, this seems about as good a place as any for ass-art every now and again.

via pan-dan.

*I’ll tell you what!