In order to live up to the name of this blog, here are a couple clever last words:

• Behan Brendan (Irish playwright, to the nun attending to him on his deathbed): “Bless you sister, may all your sons be bishops”
• H.G. Wells (British writer): “Go away… I’m all right”. Wanted his epitaph to read “I told you so. You damned fools!”
• Voltaire (French writer, on his deathbed when one of the oil lamps in the room caught fire): “What? The flames already?”
• Voltaire (apparently very busy wisecracking, even on his deathbed, when asked to forswear Satan): “This is no time to make new enemies”
• William Saroyan (American writer): “Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?”
• Paul Claudel (French writer): “Doctor, do you think it was the sausage?”

Authenticity not guaranteed :-).

Well, I have pretty specific tastes in skulls and usually think the less is the better. I can’t stand all those Hallowwen skulls which always include some drops of blodd, a spider, a serpent or whatever. The human skeleton has a beauty in itself which does not need anything else but, well…

Anyway,  the following is a pretty good idea, but I’m not too sure about the execution. First, who ever wear such big rings? And, in any case, who would wear those, they are pretty ugly, don’t you think?

Too bad, I would have loved the idea of a skull USB key…

I just noticed the price: 145$! Pretty expensive…

If you’re looking for a stylish UBK key, I would better recommend those: 8 gigs, bulletproof, waterprooof, for 26£ (~50$)

I still do not know why I was offered a little pony when I quit my last job… But then, it had a fateful encounter with my Roboraptor, as documented in there:

But things could not stop there… A couple months later, Thomas found this on Flicker:

I love the “Little Pony” style presentation:

“Skulley is ridden by the first horseman of the apocalypse. She enjoys fresh organic apples, brains, and walks on the beach. “

And yes, more plushes… Closing to Halloween probably doesn’t help…

So, here is the Dismember-me Plush Zombie:

And, here, in action:

A very interesting idea. I was half-expecting to see there a proper hand of glory, but I guess the prerequisites for creating it were a bit too much work… Nice ones, though… makes me think about trying to make my own version…

The laws of nature dictate that snakes eat mice, which always caused me an unlimited amount of grief. I have a fondness for rodents which can hardly compare to my distaste of snakes (funny, when you think about it, how you can dislike animals that you never genuinely encountered… Not that I’m looking forward to it. In snakes as in spiders and all kinds of creepy crawlies, my motto is: you live your lives, I live mine, our paths never cross and that’s fine by me).

Anyway, the following news tells a different story: It looked as it it would be as usual…

until the mouse reversed the roles:

Full story here

Well, I’m tragically practical when it comes to a lot of things and some people even dare say that I’m a color-handicapped, aesthetics-challenged utilitarian… Nevertheless, if I ever had the fancy to “decorate” my keys, it would probably be with skulls.

Looking for a way to combine your love for plushes and taxidermy, maybe with an additional sprinkle of trophy hunting? Look no further: