'Tis the season for advertising

[mithriltabby]

It’s October, and the holiday displays are going up. Yet again, we will spend the last quarter of the year being bombarded with advertisements in hopes that some small shred of holiday spirit remains to be squeezed for essence that can be converted into cold, hard cash. I probably have another month before they begin to put on the Xmas Muzak and I need to go everywhere with a personal stereo to shut them out.

Fortunately, the December issue of the Fortean Times offers some delightful gift suggestions to subvert the seasonal miasma.

The Toy Vault has a fuzzy Nyarlathotep to provide some variation for people who already have too many plush Cthulhus cluttering their house.

In the “demented teddy bear” department, we have two entrants. Teddy Scares™ has such delights as Abnormal Cyrus™, Rita Mortis™, Hester Golem™, Redmond Gore™, and Edwin Morose™. Toxic Teddies has their signature Toxic Teddy, a Bipolar bear, Buzzy the chainsaw-wielding bear, a Bye Bye bear, Smackie the junkie, Rubba the bondage bear, the Butcher of Bearsville, and the Killer.

obsessivewoman informs me that she does not want any of these evil teddy bears in our house, and while I enjoy distorting the realities of my co-workers, I think these might be a little bit too shocking for the modern office environment; it’s important to slip the weirdness in under the threshold at which the filters cut in and people reject the challenge to their world’s boundaries as bad input. (Plush Microbes and plush Parasite Pals are probably about as far as I can push it at work, though I haven’t picked up any of those yet.)

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