Wednesday, September 27, 2006

I am become death, the destroyer of lawns

Holy Shit!

For reasons that seemed appropriate at the time, my wife’s online shopping excursion led her into one of the darker and stranger corners of the interweb.  She returned, scarred and weary, bearing this.  Mother Earth Shopping is offering for sale, The Scythe Book, 2nd ed. At first, I am intrigued.  Scythes, you say?  Until I read the blurb:

Instead of trying to find time to workout at the local gym, this book tells how you can get a healthful workout while silently mowing your property using a scythe.

Get in shape while (silently) looking like bathouse, squirrelbait crazy.  If I tried to mow my lawn with a scythe, I’d likely be arrested before I finished the front.  I wonder, if Mother Jones started to offer books together as packages like Amazon, what they would mate up with this gem?  How to make you own very large black cloak from pocket lint?  Death and You, Mythology and Holistic Home Gardening?  For every one indisputably cool thing that Mother Earth might have, there are a thousand of these boners.


Posted by Buckethead on 09/27/06 at 12:03 PM
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