Tee shirt seen on the boardwalk in Ocean City Maryland this past Monday

Get yer campaign on

What are you doing here? Stump Connolly next door at The Week Behind is almostliveblogging from the conventions and he said he'd check out the protester "freedom cages" for me.

The Week Behind

The Topless Girlie Show at the The Woodland Fair

Wisconsin Death Trip Taxidermy

Planning a road trip to Madison, Wisconsin? Extreme Craft has the skinny on Cress Funeral Home and the basement taxidermy heaven of owner Sam Sanfillippo. Beyond the obligatory Dairyland trophy fish and badgers, there's dioramas galore of chipmunks and squirrels, many of which are mechanized and kinetic. Me, I can't wait to see the squirrel on the animated bucking bronco amid plastic dinosaurs. Not to worry, the warm-blooded exhibits are road kill (and golf ball fatalities). Come for the albino squirrels, and stay for the three-legged goose or the barracuda in top hat and cutaway coat. It's free, but by appointment only.

Extreme Craft: Death and Taxidermy

Disturb this Norwegian Peace

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Telemegaphone Dale is a 23-foot-tall wind-powered loudspeaker sculpture that picks up incoming telephone calls and projects them into the nearby surroundings. The sound of your voice is projected from the top of Bergskletten mountain out across the fjord, the valley, and the village of Dalsfjord (Dale) below. No answer? Remember it's wind powered, give it a few hours to recuperate and try again. Telemegaphone was created by the Swedish designers but located in Western Norway, what does that tell you?

Telemegaphone Dale

Automatonophobics beware

kindertrauma

Your happy childhood ends here. Movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid; and everything else that's traumatic to a tyke. Kindertrauma means to remind you of all the things you once tried so hard to forget.

kindertrauma