Only Mountain Dew and Crab Juice

To continue the crab theme...

Last week I was in Annapolis, MD for work, and I had accidentally dropped my toothbrush in the toilet. No matter how long you run it under hot water afterwards, you will never wash out the stigma that your toothbrush went into a giant bowl a pee.

So I drove myself to a nearby CVS Pharmacy to get a new toothbrush. Walking by the snack aisle, lo and behold, I saw it:

Go ahead, say it out aloud to yourself: "Utz... The Crab Chip". I think its sheer genius to name your brand "Utz". What does it mean? Where did it come from? "Utz" is something you say if you almost trip on something.

Utz had other chip flavors, but the Crab Chip simply cannot be beat. I'm assuming this is something that's only available on the east coast. That's so unfair; why don't we have Utz Crab Chips out here?

Now That's A Crab

I saw this link on Boing Boing the other day, which lead to this picture:


Not to simply repeat what's already been said, but CHEEZUS, THAT'S THE BIGGEST CRAB I'VE EVER SEEN. Please don't move, and especially don't make eye contact with the beast. I'm sure glad I'm not the poor sap who took that picture.

Luckily, after a great deal of diligent reasearch (mainly looking at Wikipedia), the coconut crab cand only be found "in areas throughout the Indian and western Pacific ocean". In other words, nowhere near where we live, and especially not in our recycling bin.

Bumbershoot & Flatstock 14

We had a great time at Bumbershoot and Flatstock in Seattle over Labor Day weekend. It was good - really good. It was the best. It was fantastic.

Flatstock was what we expected it to be - a lot of poster artists hawking their wares. It's funny, because we're used to Comic-Con sized exhibit halls that stretch as far as the eye can see. Flatstock was the size of a basketball court (okay, maybe two basketball courts). But it was more than enough, since by the end of the day we spent pretty much all the cash we had.

In terms of poster artists, I like Frank Kozik, and I like Coop, but neither one was there. However, my fiance does like Patent Pending and the Bird Machine, and they both had tables that we passed by again and again, and a few more times again, just in case we missed something the previous time.

Most of the other artists we didn't really know, but we know what we like, so we figured out right away which ones had the graphic style that fit our tastes. Here's just a sample of some of the posters we got:

Hey, we went outside too. The weather was great for an outdoor festival, and the place was packed. There was a lot of tasty food, and we helped ourselves to the free shots of Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes and Balance Bars. We sure do love free stuff.

There was a lot of live music being played all over the Seattle Center, but we didn't really bother seeing any of the bands. We did hear the Shins playing some of their popular songs. The festival was for three days, so we weren't there on the right day to see Fergie and her humps. Oh well.

We did manage to see one artist that I was somewhat familiar with named St. Vincent for a couple of songs. She's not really well known, so it was easy to get right up to the edge of the stage to take pictures like this:

All in all, we had a lot of fun and spent a lot of money. A most successful weekend.