[DESIGN WTF] CB2's "Mouse Pet"

So you live in New York City, which is the equivalent of paying millions of dollars to live on top of a trash pile. 

You see rats every day scurrying aorund on the subway tracks and you may or may not see a mouse hanging out in your dishrack when you're just trying to eat your breakfast before you go to work. 

So, that's why I don't understand why ANYONE would ever buy this stupid "Mouse Pet" from CB2 ($79.95).

Like, hey guys, if you want to pay me $80, I can give you the real thing.  Call me.

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[HANGING TOUGH] Crate & Barrel's "Vein of Truth" Print

Got the new Crate & Barrel Spring catalog the other day and as usual, it was a major snoozefest.

The only thing in there worth noting was Allison Wickey's "Vein of Truth" print. 

For $449, it ain't cheap but it's kind of pretty, right?

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[AN AMERICAN TAIL] Adventures of a Mouseketeer

Picture it: It's Thursday morning.  I'm standing in my kitchen, eating my yogurt, MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS, when a mouse just walks right on by, just like your roommate would. 

I almost heard him say, "Hey, Amanda, what's up?"

Not only is it DISGUSTING and awful to see a mouse in your apartment, I was also taken aback by how brazen it was.  Like, not even a little scared of me.  This is quite concerning because I'm known for my ability to make grown men weep.  It's a skill. 

Hey, mouse: I'm out of the house for 14 hours a day.  You can do whatever the hell you want during those hours.  Bring a friend over.  Watch some TV.  Hang out in the dishrack, which seems to be your favorite place for some reason.  If I don't see it, then it's not happening, as far as I'm concerned. But when you interrupt my breakfast, I have to do something.  Like cover you up with a bowl, slide a magazine under it, and then throw you right out the window like a mob boss or Suge Knight.

You little exoskeleton-less creep.  You forced me to murder you.    

New life motto: don't trust anything without an exoskeleton.  They will almost certainly force you to commit a crime. 

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[A GIRL CAN DREAM] Matt Locke Source LA Collection

Yeah, yeah, the ORIGINAL Matlock was a show that aired during America's sudden obsession with the elderly.  After years and years of only valuing the young, the beautiful, and the braindead, TV stations started greenlighting shows starring old protagonists such as Matlock and Murder She Wrote. 

Because what everyone wants to watch is a bunch of cotton heads (not racist) fumble around and try to figure out murder mysteries.  If someone I know has been murdered, the last person I want on the case is someone who has a restricted driver's license, a pacemaker, and a granddaughter who is my age. 

But Matlock isn't just Grampa Simpson's favorite TV show, he's also a designer out of Los Angeles who makes stuff that only dreams are made of.   

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[COOL SHIT] Hipflasks from Tom Cecil

The jury is still out as to whether or not I have an actual alcohol problem, so obviously, I own a flask.

It's from Things Remembered and it's engraved with my name along with the words "DON'T CRY OUT LOUD" because I thought it would be funny to force a Things Remembered employee to engrave a flask with the name of a song that contains the lyrics, "Just keep it inside/Learn how to hide your feelings."

Yes, hide those feelings.

With some hooch that you keep secretly in your pocket.

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