August 7, 2011
This vintage purse was made of the hide of a large reptile. I’m not sufficiently familiar with their hides to be able to tell if it was an Alligator or a Crocodile.
The purse is about 9 inches wide and 7 1/2 inches tall. One side features a small exterior pocket and prominent ‘hornback’ ridges down the center. Hornback leather showcases the hard, horn-like scales found along the donor Crocodile or Alligator’s back and they add an interesting and one of a kind topographical feature to the piece.
The back side of the purse is plain, flat reptilian leather.
The inside is lined with a fine grained leather that looks more mammalian than not. The interior is essentially one large pocket, but there is a small one on one side. The lining at the bottom of the small pocket is fabric and there is a tear. Otherwise the purse is in good shape but does have some signs of use, although there is a lot of ‘life’ left in it.
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March 15, 2011
An intersection of firsts: Leon Spinks was the first fighter to beat Muhammad Ali in a title bout (although after refusing to fight another contender the title was stripped from him).
In an attempt to regain it he agreed to fight Muhammad Ali at the New Orleans, Louisiana Superdome.
He lost the 15 round match due to poor conditioning (including excessive partying), making Ali the first three-time heavyweight boxing champion.
Vintage promotional gold-plated bling. It is 1 1/4 inches in diameter and is on a 23 inch chain.
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January 27, 2011
One day Happy! Dog! was running through the fields stark naked insisting he was the King of Sweden and the King of Denmark and the Prince of all Sleaze ‘n Sparkle in Amsterdam and—Angry Beaver had him bundled away to a nice quiet place with windows that didn’t open and doors that were locked from the outside. It was a bad scene.
Sure, back in Cascadia people praised Angry Beaver for reaching out and taking care of Happy! Dog!, for being willing to do whatever it took to make Happy! Dog! well. But Angry Beaver didn’t visit Happy! Dog! in lock down.
In lock down, Happy! Dog! was forced to eat reconstituted eggs and soy bacon and kibbles laced with corn syrup. They told him he needed to shape up and realize he was just like all the other dogs. They insisted he wasn’t special.
Happy! Dog! knew no one would say that if they weren’t 1) crazier than crazy and 2) feeling meaner than a stepped-on rattlesnake. Of course he was special. All the dogs and bony cats and emaciated ferrets in the bad airless space were special. And not one was like any of the others. And they were his friends.
They taught him how to wear fur covered stretched out breast implants to look like he was putting on weight, even gave him a few with velcro belts for free. When he couldn’t wait and threw up under the breakfast table, they’d eat it and then throw it up where the staff didn’t notice. They had drugs in little baggies tied to the underside of the shower drains.
At the end of the month (when Angry Beaver’s second check bounced) he left a whole pound thinner but looking like he had the curves of Mae West. All due to his special friends.
He was so proud. He hitchhiked home wearing purple.
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Sterling silver, marcasite, and amethyst stud earrings. $10
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January 25, 2011
Here we have a two-sided bone charm of twin rabbits hung from a four-row Pan Chang knot with cross knots further decorated with double tassels. It’s a well-done example of its species. The charm itself measures two inches tall and 1 5/8 inches wide.
If it’s too frou-frou as displayed, you could change the red eyes to black and get some kind of cool chain. Then you could hang it off your chrome messenger bag.
Rabbits are symbols of fertility, love, lust, abundance, longevity, and rebirth and strongly associated with the moon.
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January 24, 2011
Before he can say another word, Harry tells him it’s not a good idea. “No sir. Not. A. Good. Idea. Not even with cigarettes piled up to my butt on both sides and a lighter that always works. I love you. If I could, I’d change. But it’s not going to work. I’ve always had terrible test anxiety and it’s not going to go away. Already tried everything. Won’t work.”
Reynard has learned to let him run down before interrupting; if he doesn’t his ears get nipped. Always accidentally of course. But accidental bites hurt just as much as intentional ones. And the slobber! “Harry,” he says, when there’s a pause. “I’m going to experiment on you. You don’t have to do anything but be yourself.”
“Experiment!” Harry cries. “Experiment!”
“Yes,” says Reynard.
“I’m the only opposite magnetic horse in existence!”
“Yes,” says Reynard.
“I was born in a test tube!”
“Certainly not,” says Reynard. “Even as a foal your ass would have been too fat.”
“All my life. In labs. The probes!” Harry starts to weep large slow horse tears.
Reynard whines in frustration and turns away. He’ll have to give Harry another box of cancer sticks before he’ll be able to get him agree to stop smoking.
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Beaded silver hoop earrings (sold)
Decorated sterling silver bangles $8 each
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January 18, 2011
Only after fighting to fasten the clasp of the rhinestone band over the horse’s substantial ass does it occur to Reynard that Angry Beaver might be lying to him about the multiple gold lined stomachs.
The thought, which normally would have been his first thought, floats up in the form of a question. Maybe “How else could you make a ruminant float?” has a different answer than “gold,” or a few different answers. Is a horse even a ruminant?
Maybe he shouldn’t have followed all the other foxes into music and literature and acting. Is there a future in science for a trickster?
Well, he was stumped on how to hang and gut 1100 pound Harry anyway. And if he can get him to stop smoking there’s probably a few thousand in marketing a special stop smoking plan for horses.
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Rhinestone bracelet $10
Rectangular amber earrings SOLD
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January 10, 2011
It’s gotten to the point that Angry Beaver can count all of Happy Dog’s ribs without his glasses on.
Worried about the dog, and the cost of sending him away to a recovery center, and losing the income for all the time he’s locked up, and about where he’s getting the pills he must still be on, and how he’s getting the money for the pills, or what he’s doing in lieu of money, Angry Beaver tells Happy Dog! that he loves him.
It’s not true of course.
And Happy Dog! (who still kinda lives for it to be true) knows it for a lie.
Ah, if his breath were anything other that just enough air to keep a swallow aloft Happy! Dog would stop and turn and fight the lie down. Bark it into a corner. Nip and nip and then lunge and lock his teeth on its throat.
Instead he just feels the sharp slap of it. And keeps on running in circles.
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Rhinestone blue heart necklace and earring set.
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January 9, 2011
Here he is posing for the poster. It’s going to be a cross between a televised advice column (Reynard as Dr. Feelgood), Burn Notice (Reynard’s going to do step-by-step tutorials on how to manipulate and spy on people), The Bachelor (Reynard of course), The View (Angry Beaver will be a co-host), Cold Case (Reynard will tell secrets and solve long dead mysteries) and the shopping channel. With maybe a little high-rolling religion thrown in. And dowsing lessons.
It’ll run M-F from 2am to 4am. He wants to call it An Honest Man, but the network is a little nervous about that. So Reynard is doing market research. What would you call it?
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Reynard is wearing AH earrings, only $9.
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January 8, 2011
Which means he’s getting pretty thin. Angry Beaver announced that he’s lost enough weight for everyone so all other Cascadians can just stop dieting.
Even Reynard hadn’t heard such a loud surround-sound sigh of relief before, and he’s heard a few.
But closing in on canine anorexia, Happy! Dog’s making mucho money at the modeling agency. He’s already made enough to pay for the generators. Though the fact that he keeps leaping about with jewelry all over his head demanding to be recognized as the King of Sweden has a few friends frantically worried. They don’t think he’s joking. (For such a happy creature, Happy! Dog has some serious friends.)
Here he is (Happy Dog!, King of Sweden!) wearing a sterling silver ring with a citrine & an amethyst stone. Bow before him.
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January 3, 2011
Angry Beaver was happy to be recognized for serving his country in that little contretemps with the foreign service not long after he got out of Hell, and he recognized that they couldn’t give him anything official, but would it have been that much of a stretch to have noted his size? He’d be able to screw the thing through his head before he’d manage to hang it off his lapel.
He tried telling himself that it was the thought that counted, but as they obviously hadn’t really thought about it this didn’t work very well.
Then he tried thinking of himself as the first secret hero of the U.S. Government recognized (on the sly) in 2011. That worked a little better if he blocked his mind from thinking about the bureaucracy. And he has lots of practice in not thinking about bureaucracy.
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Lightweight metal lapel pin with USA eagle, post type back with screw on fastener, in excellent condition. Measures 1½ inches diameter.
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