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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Why No, I Wouldn't Mind One Little Bit!


Salt Lake City fashion designer Jared Gold recently began offering jeweled brooches featuring brightly colored Swarovski crystals affixed to a live, 3-inch-long Madagascar hissing cockroach that a woman can allow to roam a short distance around her dress or jacket via a silver chain affixed to the roach's back. The brooch sells for $80 at Gold's Web site. An April New York Post story quoted an animal-rights spokesman as calling the bauble "just the gift" for the "person who doesn't mind a small animal excreting on them throughout the day."



The real irritant for me is that this little twerp has cannibalized the work of my favorite artist, Joseph
Cornell to use on his website. Uncredited.
Grrrrr........Damn kids!

3 Comments:

Blogger FancyPants said...

Apparently it's not a joke. They look pretty big- I think I'd avoid the "whapping". There might be a lot of, uh, clean-up involved.
Yuck.

11:20 PM  
Blogger FancyPants said...

Well, it might work. If you could teach it to wash its hands and wipe its feet when it comes in from playing. And a tiny bottle of hand sanitizer might be appropriate. To drink.

4:42 PM  
Blogger FancyPants said...

fcozzxg. I have nothing to say, just wanted to immortalize this bizarre verification word.Now, please use in a sentence.

OK. "You've got to be 'fcozzxg' kidding me!"

That works.....

9:27 PM  

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