Nintendo should at least make those Oocoos wear bras.

Also, you can totally judge a book by its cover.  I like those new Penguin classics with the indie cartoonists doing the covers.  That cover says to me "here's a dusty bit of old literature that we think the hip grad student set might like" and that right there is a sale.  Also 60s and 70s paperbacks.  All of them.

I bought Gravity's Rainbow because it had a cool rocketship diagram on the cover. Damn you Penguin, what with all your crazy covers.

The all-glass bathroom makes perfect sense if you are Five Years Old. Come on, did none of you ever leave bathroom doors wide open or try to walk into occupied bathrooms as toddlers?

Valentines schmalentines. Right now it is time for mega-fun activities involving huge banquets and upside-down signs and the color red.

Though chocolate is good. One can never have too much chocolate.

Real tea is only served at super special teahouses where they have teeny teapots made of purple clay, mini cups (one for smelling only!), and little bowls full of hot(ter than the sun) water. Contact your local old Chinese man for more information on real tea.

Thanks a whole lot, Mr Bear. What am I going to drink next time I go to a Chinese restaurant, now?

Ask for a potful of "glass tea" (just regular hot water) and bask in your ultimate display of Chinese-ness.

I wonder if Teodore can dance on the Roomba.

Mail order shopping is not a new thing.  Sears-Roebuck anyone?  L.L. Bean?  Lillian freakin' Vernon, even?

The internet just made it faster and easier.  Just like most everything else.

No paper catalogue I've looked at has antique embalming kits for sale in them.

I'm still waiting for them scientist-folk to invent computer-glasses so I can stop reading *****s as ##### and wondering why ##### would rip faces off when they clearly are not meant to be worn on the head (no eye holes).