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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 |
Austrian housepainter
Living in a place that has its very own Austrian immigrant
fixing things for the Volk -- I mean the people -- I need to
acknowledge what I think every year on this date: that it's Hitler's
birthday. Der Fuehrer, 1889-1945. As the Franz Liebkind (crazy German
playwright) character says in "The Producers":
"Hitler! There was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in a single afternoon. Two coats!"
Of course, unlike most housepainters -- OK,
any other housepainter I can think of, though I haven't checked
Stalin's or Genghis Khan's resumes -- this one got a commotion
going that killed 50 or 60 or 70 million people.
11:16:29 PM 
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All the Poop ... That's Fit to Report
In the quest to find out more about ShitBegone toilet paper -- facts such as, is it real? -- I happened upon this stunning source of excretory information: PoopReport.com.
Full of useful and fun facts and speculation, such as a quick
user review of the Toto Drake toilet -- it disposes of absolutely
anything, despite using just 1.6 gallons per flush; and a report on
whether terrorists might launch a strike on the United States by
spiking our toilet paper.
And oh, yes, there's a nice little interview with the creator of ShitBegone, a Brooklyn lad named Jed Ela.
2:21:17 PM
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[Generic] Toilet paper
You can't get much more basic than this: ShitBegone.
Advertised as "100 percent recycled toilet paper," which might give
your imagination some exercise. Ninety-six rolls for $44.99. Lovely --
though I will quibble with how the name is rendered. "Shitbegone"
follows "woebegone"; so it could be interpreted as "overcome by shit"
-- which would probably make it the perfect toilet paper for our times.
If I were marketing director, or nitpicker, I'd have fought for
ShitBeGone.
By way of Boing Boing.
1:43:54 PM
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© Copyright 2004 Dan Brekke.
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