Category: Silly Stuff

Is it just me, or does this strike anybody else as damning by faint praise?

Of course, the real reason you need to know how to be your own bodyguard is to protect you from your your fellow inmates, when you’re doing time behind bars for assault with a crowbar.

These birds will not only peck out your eyes, but they’ll take your souuulll.

Or not. Ew.

I put these on display in the window without noticing the, um, unfortunate juxtaposition, until Jimmy pointed it out the next day. Yes, the white stripes were lined up just like that.

The thing that makes this really bad is that this is the publisher’s own blurb from the back of the book:

Into the vast allegory of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson (All and Everything, First Series), topheavy from its sheer weight of argument and at the same time soaring off into space like a great lumbering, flying cathedral, Gurjieff gathered the fundamentals of his teaching.

Way to sell it, guys!