I should be on the bus going home right now, but I thought I would leave you with these:

First, we have this guy, who apparently spends his time in what I can only describe as incredibly strange ways. He takes plastic dolls and makes montrous mutations from them. It’s right out of a horror movie, and vaguely disturbing. Boing Boing called them Toddlerpedes, and that makes me even more freaked out somehow.

Then, on a lighter note, a freaking awesome, if strange, business. It’s the Unfortunate Animal of the Month Club. Basically you suscribe to this club and they will make you a one-of-a-kind stuffed animal with way more than the usual number of limbs and heads. It will come wrapped:

“It may be packed in leaves, wrapped in an odd length of fabric, a placemat, yards and yards and yards of string, joss paper�you just never know, and it won�t be the same twice.”

I think this is brilliant and weird, and I want to get Lockrey a subscription for her birthday, but don’t tell her.

And finally on the toy frontier I have an (untested since I’m still at work and not on the bus) link to a movie of the animatronic Tigger doll (we have two at home) in a rather explicit scene with a Tickle Me Elmo doll. I’m sure you can picture it, I sure can. The original article from Boing Boing has a still shot.

Again, you should just read Boing Boing, since this blog is over 80% Boing anyway. Those guys rock.

* Update, I had the Toddlerpede link busted, it works better now.