it makes a lovely paperweight

[kodalai]

Today I was over at alphasean's. We went out walking around the UCLA campus and there was ... a random Indian craft fair! We bought two fox tails and a deer leg (I still owe you for the tails, I haven't forgotten!) The fox tails are nice, will be useful for cosplay, but the deer leg... is the damnedest thing. It's not good FOR anything, it's just.... the bottom of a leg of a deer. WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE ITS AWESOMENESS.

It just fits so perfectly in your hand, and it's weighted so perfectly, you really just want to whack something with it. Or poke something with it. All of a sudden, you understand what our ancestors must have felt all those millions of years ago on the savannah, when they picked up an antelope leg and suddenly thought "Hey, I could use this to smack my neighbor with!"

And thus was born the dawn of humankind.

Comments

[okaasan59.livejournal.com]

O_O

[aging-parents.livejournal.com]

And thus was born the dawn of civilization.

Nah, actually civilization dawned with the realization that you could have someone else doing both the giving and receiving of smacks, while staying safely out of range & gnawing on the venison.

[foxglove6.livejournal.com]

Sandry!!! Hi sandry!!! it's a picture of sandy!!! yay sandy!!!

ok i'm done now....

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

I always thought civilization started when we stopped smacking our neighbors with antelope leg bones and started growing grain. Or something.

[alphasean.livejournal.com]

we have never ceased the practice of smacking. It is an age old tradition in human culture that is practiced to this day. Although our means of smacking have become much more sophisticated.