tons of taxidermy

Hell yeah. I hate the term “man cave” and even so, hell yeah. How about I just give you the ad:

tons of Taxidermy Vintage – $1 (Pipersville, Bucks county)

Reply to: sale-ahnuu-1228656089@craigslist.org ^{[Errors when replying to ads?]}

Date: 2009-06-18, 8:53PM EDT

I am cleaning out my man cave. Lots of assorted skulls, horns, skins, some mounts. 40 years of collecting

from around the world……..rare and unusual…………very reasonable.

call me Louie 267 261 4715

• Location: Pipersville, Bucks county
• it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Side note: I quit smoking yesterday. If anyone has any info on where one might procure a fake cigarette, not one of those fancy electronic vaporizer ones, just a reasonable facsimile of a cigarette I can put in my mouth and pretend to smoke, for the love of god tell me where I can buy one. Any other smoking-quitting advice would also be appreciated.

I may also be posting more frequently about things that I hate, such as the term “man cave,” for the next few months. Bear with me!

A sound of thunder

I’m sort of fascinated with McKenzie Taxidermy. Their online catalog has mounts for just about every animal you can legally shoot as well as a few of dubious legality. But they also have replica mounts of animals of dubious existence, uh, well, if you believe the Bible literally.

If you’re not too into the paint jobs these guys have (I’m not), no worries: The heads arrive like the unpainted Triceratops one below, and you paint them with the aid of “Instructional Videotape, Airbrushing Triceratops,” which is $24.95. The heads themselves aren’t nearly as expensive as I thought they might be, running from $65.55 for the Triceratops to $161.40 for the Brachiosaurus.

For more information on hunting dinosaurs, see the Ray Bradbury short story “A Sound of Thunder” or the best arcade game I have ever played, Primeval Hunt, in which you hunt various dinosaurs with a shotgun.