BEARS

When I think of bears, I picture grizzlies catching salmon, lumbering around, and ripping Tim Treadwell's face off. Bears should be scary. But when you search for "bear" on Etsy, it becomes almost impossible to sort through the Teddy McCutesies and find the real bears.

So I did it for you. Everything here could rip off some faces.

(Just for the record, I'm not anti-Teddy McCutesy. At least not openly.)

DRINK IT UP

I've been thinking a lot about shoes lately. Probably because I like them well enough, but hardly ever buy them. This one time, in high school, I got a pair of expensive Earth Shoes knee-high winter boots, suede lined with shearling, pretty kickass. But I felt like a tool wearing them, so, after a couple days, I never did again. (I seem to do that a lot with shoes...) It was the first and the last time I ever spent more than $100 on clothing.

But it would be nice to have a pair of boots that weren't made for hiking. That I hadn't had since I was sixteen. That didn't have my name written on the back.
- Not that I don't love them. Ordered my LLBean crampons yesterday, actually. In blue.

I'd get these if I had the balls (and the cash).

Well, these Dino Earrings by starsprinklez might be the best thing I've seen in at least five minutes. Really makes me miss the 90s, and wish I had an extra $13.50 lying around. (Dinosaurs are more fun than shoes. Can I get dinosaur shoes?)

Really, I'd just like LA Lights. If I didn't have such big feet, I could probably get them on eBay in some enormous little-boy size. The kind they use only for glandular cases and Maury babies.

3 THE HARD WAY

Don't you hate people who take pictures of their cats? I really hate those people. But he looked like an amputee, so I think that constitutes a free pass.
I've been drinking sparkling cranberry juice out of the bottle to feel like a wino. Almost makes me want to take a series of pictures where I'm just pouring it onto my face.
My skin lotion from bcbotanicals came in yesterday, and it's probably the best-smelling item I've ever owned. If I don't stop smelling my hands, people are going to think I've got some strange compulsion - and then how will I ever meet a viking?

In case anyone's interested, the almost-new (new to me, at least) Demon Hunter album, Storm the Gates of Hell, is pretty excellent. A bit more melodic than their previous releases (especially The Triptych, which was always my favorite), it boasts a sophisticated marriage of thrash and power that I'm really enjoying. "Thorns" and "Carry Me Down," especially, showcase Ryan Clark's voice to a degree not really explored on the other albums.
Of course, I'm incredibly behind the times, because there's already an actually new DH CD/DVD pack out right now, 45 Days, which I really need to get. Even though it's technically "Christian." Yikes.



I spent about five episodes of Destroyed in Seconds making this baby. My first bracelet, so I went all out - and I think it came out pretty damn well. Used up a lot of my watch parts, and pretty much all of my jump rings. Which means I need to stock up. Which means I need to sell something. Which means I need to get this up in my shop. Which I won't be able to do until tomorrow, when I can take better pictures. The light was just too weak when I went out at five, right after finishing, and the photos are so dim and grainy that I can't, in good faith, put them online. Oh well. What's another day?