Charming Monsters

For the hardcore lifestyle lolita, how about some gold-plated food?

Found via the Inspire Me, Now! tumblr, this food spray comes in gold and silver, and is available from The Deli Garage (under “Food Spray”). The site claims the spray is harmless and tasteless, but I’m not sure I want to be the first to give it a try

Something every middle-grade author ought to prepare themselves for, I suppose! PBS’s Nova has an online collection of angry letters sent to the American Museum of Natural History by third graders in response to the news that Pluto was no longer considered a planet.

Aw, sad planets!

Oh, rugby!.

[available for purchase at The Monkey's Paw, Toronto's most interesting and eclectic used book store]

Via Literaticat on twitter, I’ve been introduced to Polidori Chocolates, purveyors of artisan marshmallows and Lovecraft-themed truffles. Personally, I’m down with anybody who name-drops the original The Vampyre author, especially when they add chocolate to the mix.

Nyarlathotep, Elder Joy, Penguins of Leng and Truffle Over Innsmouth

In addition to the dastardly Choconomicon, Polidori offers a Gothic Weekend truffle selection and a Seven Deadly Sins (plus one!) set. They’re running a limited-time offer of buy two, get one free if you pick up one of each of the truffle collections, and a similar three-for-the-price-of-four deal on artisan marshmallows, although the site doesn’t say exactly when the deal runs out. Might be just the thing for our next evening of Arkham Horror!

What a marvelous piece of editing.

Many thanks to the Council of Metal for bringing this to my attention.

(Yes, I’ve been posting a lot of video clips lately. Not sure what’s going on with that, but I’ll try to trim back. This was just a bit too good to resist.)