A happity eBay story!

Since we've been sharing our eBay woes, we thought it might be fair to share a little nice eBay story, because, tiki's crankiness notwithstanding, it's mostly not such a bad gig, and sometimes it's actually kind of OK plus you meet nice people who collect dollies.

Anyways, we had someone buy a dollie, which they liked, so they wrote us about it, which was totally cool (it's fun to see our stuff go off to happy homes of people who like them). Anyways, they wrote, "We shall send you a Stitch!" And, dagnabbit, they did!!!



This guy. Isn't he kind of adorable? It's from the Dizzney store, which means we should probably have gotten our chubby butt in gear to go out and get him ourselves.



We like especially the fact that Gardener Stitch has thought to some kind of insanely dangerous plant (like the one on that episode of the TV show) to the garden party.

Hysteria

This is a really fun book review:

Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness
by Mark S. Micale

Macho Misery
A review by Sherwin B. Nuland

As far back as has been recorded of the history of human societies, men have equated life with movement. If our ancestors of antiquity could feel stirrings inside their bodies, it must mean that large, living structures were at the very least shifting their positions, and perhaps even migrating from place to place within the mysterious recesses of the internal cavities that encompassed them, whether the abdomen or the chest. Like other peoples of their time, for example, the Egyptians believed that the inner organs were so many distinctive and individual creatures, with whims and moods of their own that determined their peregrinations from neck to pelvis.

Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers. When, in his Timaeus, Hippocrates's contemporary Plato called the uterus "an animal within an animal," he meant it to be taken literally. He was echoing a common belief of his time and earlier when he stated that under proper conditions the womb -- or hystera, as it was called in Greek -- "becomes seriously angry and moves all over the body." Chief among those proper conditions was any frustration of its desire to bear children....

In case ya hadn't heard before, it's all true: they used to think the "womb" actually wandered around your body, causing trouble!! Which, even though it's totally wrong, is actually kind of awesome.

tiki's twits

todays twisted twittering:

• 18:11 How did I deal with life before Cap'n Jack? tinyurl.com/dhnr4l #
• 13:28 Aiiiii! Left office for lunch and FORGOT TO BRING iPHONE! *gloms* #

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tiki wins yay!

FYI Kutner fans

Rachel Maddow of MSNBC just announced Kal Penn will be on her show tomorrow, Friday. I'm sure someone will post it to the YouTube later. As you know, he's going to work for the Obama administration, so they'll probably spend most of the time talking about that, and not how House MD writers are full of fail, but still.