This Animal Is BULLshit

It's like I made a nature video....

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Foreign Shit Is Weird And Delicious

Today I wandered through Pearl River Mart on my lunch break. This store is always a treasure trove of junk and hilarity. Take these wine bottle cozies for example. My favorite was the topper of Chinese hat complete with long black braid!

While kitschy is at least understandable, this thing below was totally perplexing. What the heck does this pumice stone thing have in common with bikes, skis, and a faucet? Why does this photo show a happy little boy rubbing it on a shiny clean kitchen spigot? (Or is it a bike handle?)

The back of the package only confused me more. Somehow this thing is also related to knives, chairs and ice skates? And is it really worth $11.50?

But strange hilarious and foreign packaging can also mean something crazy delicious. Last night my new friend Murtaza took me to an Indian sandwich shop in the west village.

This is their menu.

I had the blobby red thing (turns out that is their preferred visual for minced meat) and egg on the lower left corner. It was totally amazing! (My mouth is watering writing this!) I also had bites of the Paneer and Unda Chicken roll and both were tasty options. So while Mamoun's is always a good late night neighborhood favorite, next time you are in that area, I highly recommend wandering down a few doors.

Around Town III

This is a post series I really enjoy. I get a kick out of distilling tons of visual information into the weird, wacky, and wonderful highlights I see by default Around Town.

(Banksy Mural outside my office. 2008 IS the year of the rat.)

And You Thought Stock Brokers Had It Bad

Monday I went into the basement at work to retrieve files only to encounter 6 inches of water covering the floor and a busted pipe. Three hours, 10 garbage cans and countless buckets of water later, I went home for the day. I was totally sweaty and smelly and covered in (what I learned with horror) New York City sewage water.

But man, as I was dumping out shop vac after shop vac of water in an attempt to rescue some art, I kept thinking "I have a masters degree for THIS?" And while I feel bad for my friends who work in the finance industry and their stress, I know they would never have been expected to do something as lowly and gross. And crazy enough, just when I thought it couldn't get much worse than schlepping disease infested water out of a disgusting 100 year old basement, I got the following email from another museum compardre

So we have a termite problem at our museum. Every fall when we get our super hot super dry weather they get really bad. They come down from the light fixtures. It actually sounds like its raining in my office as the fall to their deaths around me. But last night I pulled two dead ones of out my cleavage! Tomorrow I am going to wear a hat to work because they are also crawling in my hair! When I took a shower this morning I saw a dead one plastered to the side of the tub. I want to hear your vermin stories. You all know darn well that no one else deals with this stuff at work except museum people. Something about nonprofits means we have to forgo decency.

What's Wrong With People?

I love John and Kate Plus Eight...but this is too much!