Proud to Be Under New Management

It's a time of hope, it's a time of change, it's a time when our country can be cotton candy pink and turquoise instead of red and blue, when we can proudly proclaim that we are finally and truly under new management. Or maybe I just like the absurdly cute design. Either way, this shirt from Fred Flare has my vote.*

And a close-up, just 'cause it feels so good to say it:

*I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I'll never pun that way again, I promise! Please don't leave me.

Star Wars Bedroom Maybe Redeems Pottery Barn. Maybe.

Justin and I have had a $50 gift certificate to Pottery Barn since our wedding last May, and though I realize that their merchandise can be really nice, it's surprising how little you can get with $50 at that place. We've walked around that store more than once just trying to find something that's under $50 and worth spending money on, but so far, no luck. How can we pass on a $69.99 Bowl with Dominos, you ask? It's surprisingly easy, actually!

Why, then, does Pottery Barn Kids have so much cool stuff? I was on their site before Christmas looking for presents for my ever-growing horde of nephews and found the above Star Wars Bedroom. It comes complete with a Millennium Falcon quilt, the below sheets, and, unless I'm mistaken, a glowing golden child that looks like Anakin Skywalker. And did you see the Galaxy Far Far Away pillow? It'd be a great lead-in to self-important science fiction dreams. Not that I have those all the time, or anything.

Hazardous to Children: Uterus Safety Recall

Apparently this plush uterus from I Heart Guts was recalled before Christmas because "basically, if you pull too hard on the fallopian tubes, the ovary pops off, creating a potential choking hazard for small children." So, ahem:

Dear Future Children,

Please don't pull off and/or choke on any ovaries. Although, I guess if you are going to pull them off, the choking thing is only fair.

Sincerely,
Friday

P.S. Why don't you go play with this kidney, instead? I swear I have a spare somewhere.

Really Bad Ideas

You know what seems like a really bad idea? This wallet:

Try taking it out at any store and see what happens.

Road Kill Carpet Sends Foreboding Message to Guests, Pets

The Road Kill Carpet from OOOMS Dutch Design is, admittedly, way scary, but doesn't it also look touchably soft? Don't you kind of want to put it in your living room as a conversation piece and/or constant warning message to your cat? I imagine the conversation started by this rug would be something along the lines of:

GUEST: Oh, that's an interesting piece, what is - oh, ohgod, ohgodohgodohgod, is that. Is that an animal? Have you, have you slaughtered an animal?
YOU: From OOOMS Design!
YOU: [wink]
YOU: Available in Spring 2009!
GUEST: [thumbs up, grin at camera] It's gore-tastic.

As a side note, you should probably do something about that camera in your living room.

Dinosaur Love

First off, I'm relaunching this blog. I haven't stopped finding cool and/or ridiculous stuff on the internet, I've just stopped posting about it.

Secondly, is there anything cooler than dinosaurs? A while back, I discovered Civil War Dinosaurland through io9, and have since found that words cannot express the awesomeness of that place, or of dinosaurs in general. Will I be visiting it this summer? Maybe. And by maybe I mean "oh hell yes."

Of course, that brings us to the above photo of the hoodie T-Rex's Busy Day from Dinosaur Comics. The shirt encapsulates Dinosaur Comics pretty well - an amalgamation of brightness, dinosaurs, absurdity and philosophy.

In case you were wondering, the balloons represent philosophy. It's a working metaphor. Oh, leave me alone - I came back, didn't I?

Seasonal Pandering: Pumpkin Babies!

From out of the two-week-non-posting-ether, I bring good tidings: someone has created a mutant half-baby, half-pumpkin, and it turns out he is adorable:

Look at that wittle face and those wittle hands and the adorable wittle bags under his eyes. He's all tiny and in a sack. That is way more adorable than the half-gourd babies of previous Halloween seasons, what with their collapsed lower jaws and obscenely bulbous tummies:

I am so over them. And, of course, I'm really happy at this move away from Anne Geddes:

Frankly, I like to stay as far away from her and her photographs as possible. Have you seen the one where the woman has her newborn strapped to her stomach with cheesecloth as though it's still in the womb? That cannot be healthy. I'll take the Lil Pumpkin Cocoon Wrap Snuggler over her stuff any day.