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I have recently come across a few "über-cool" phones that can only be described as the unfortunate looking love-children of a telegraph and--depending upon the physiognomy--a meat product, a handgun, or something resembling Pokémon. I was lucky to have found these phones while browsing around the web world. I say lucky because, after becoming more acquainted with their awesomeness, I can now predict the next biggest fads brought on by a Jason Reitman movie.
My predictions go as follows:
1. Cell Phone Headsets
This is the perfect cell phone appendage for people who want to slowly acclimate to the present state in which we all live. It has the portability of a cell phone, but yet it is fully equipped with all the inconveniences of both cords and stupidly large receivers. Zack Morris, eat your heart out.
2. The Gun Cell Phone
Who wouldn't want a realistic-looking gun shaped cell phone? People who want to avoid penitentiary shower hour, that's who.
3. The Toilet Phone Caddy
With this item I may be straying a bit from the original topic, because it is not exactly a phone. However, if your phone is not yet house-broken--and you wish to avoid accidents when you go into the other room to check your email--then this might be the best thing that ever happened to you.
4. The Wearable Phone
I am not quite sure what the point of this invention is supposed to be. Aside from eliminating that burdensome 5 ounces of phone weight, it doesn't do anything useful. You still have to bring your hand to your ear--as with a normal phone--but now you look like a dufus, and will henceforth be spending your afternoons getting swirlies in the life-sized version of item #3.
5. The Turkey Dinner Phone
If the hamburger phone is the equivalent of a Big Mac, then I guess this is the equivalent of a--more eloquent--super-sized meal?
6. The Invisible Phone
I, for one, love losing my cell phone. That is why I was enthused to come across this transparent cell phone model. If you're anything like me, right now you are marveling at the fact you did not think of this yourself, and wondering exactly where you can get the one thing that will fulfill your inherent need to make life more difficult: the transparent cell phone.
And in the spirit of saving the best (and creepiest) for last....
7. The Phone Implant
This is a phone concept that--according to the article where I came across it--has been regarded, by university scientists, as the next step in phone technology. I seriously hope this remains a theory...forever.
I wonder if Jason Reitman has stock in Spencer's Gifts? Or more importantly, if he can do for these phones what he did for the illustrious transmitting meat featured in Juno?
It's just what I wanted!
I am trying to imagine the contents of this book.
Out with it, goat!
Notice the "Fact & Fiction" tag at the bottom right corner. Are there rampant fictions being spread right now about goat cheese? Have the cow cheese makers started telling nasty lies about goat cheeses, like goat cheese is actually made from baby goats? Is the moon not, in fact, a giant Crottin de Chavignol? Is goat cheese likely to kill you tomorrow?
Amazon is less than helpful. There are no reviews, no comments, no "See Inside This Book!", nothing.
The face of the goat on the cover is inscrutable. She is contemplating cheese; is she also contemplating the laughing goat? There are no "thought bubbles" connecting the two; perhaps he is a figment of her imagination. (And no, there is no particular reason I chose those genders for the goats; I just needed a handy way to distinguish them, and the pensive expression the brown goat suggests that she is thinking about where her milk is going.)
In short, what is going on here? If anyone out there has read this book, please tell me. I love goat cheese and I don't want to give it up because it might make me go insane or something. Thanks!
Ed. note: Welcome to Faye and many thanks for allowing us to reprint this blog post from The Holophusicon!
Dinner for pets....
....Or people.
Did it ever strike you as being really odd that rabbits are often kept as both pets, which provide amusement and love to their owners, and as livestock, which provide their owners with tasty, tasty flesh?
To me, there's something very uncomfortable about playing with a cute, fuzzy creature one moment and seeing the cooked corpse of that same animal subsequently appear on my dinner plate.
But then I ran across Wysong Au Jus All Meat Canned Rabbit and found myself smitten with the cute little puppies and kittens that were depending of Mr. Bunny's flesh and entrails for sustenance.
So I got to thinking, if super cute puppies and kittens want to eat some of my lesser cute pets, I suppose I'm cool with that.
Ed note: While Bill doesn't mind feeding mammals to other mammals, he prefers not to eat them himself.
