This is Why I Love the Internet

Last Friday night I wandered over to Etsy.  I’ve been massively, unabashedly addicted to Etsy since the very lovely Pear McGee agreed to make me a custom bag for all my bits and pieces.

Lest you think that Etsy is home only to knitted jumpers and artful crockery, let me show you otherwise.  With the help of Etsy you can:

• Show everyone that your house is full of teh lurves.
• Commission a custom portrait of your vulva.
• Buy a gift for your favorite lactation fetishist.
• Make a commentary on your friend’s dating habits.
• Score a glass…ummm…massager?
• Dress up a gender-bending doll.
• Examine a crocheted penis.
• Screw yourself silly with a St. Peter dildo.  (It’s only $5.  I might have to buy it.  If you pervs don’t get to it first.)
• Keep your vibrator cozy.
• Lick a chocolate vulva.
• Cinch yourself into a cock (ahem) ring.
• Cook in a chili pepper apron with fake penis.

But on that Friday night I was uninterested in naughty dolls or fuzzy dong holders.  One thing on the main page caught my eye.  I hesitated for only a fraction of a moment before dashing off an email to the fun folks over at BoingBoing, because this item belonged on BoingBoing.  It was fated to be on BoingBoing.  If any item on the planet was born to be on BoingBoing it was this one.  And out of the goodness of his heart, Cory Doctorow posted it on BoingBoing.

My friends, the item in question is an Upsidedown Baby Head Bowl lined with red glaze created by artist Susan Kniffin Davidson.  Some called it “sick.”  Others, “twisted.”  Still others, when presented with the incredibility of the item, let out an anguished “ewwwwwwwwwwww.” But I think it’s fabulous.  It’s beyond fabulous.  It’s the stuff of legends.

I checked back on Kniffin Davidson’s page a few days after the BoingBoing post.  I was thrilled to see that she’d sold out of Upsidedown Baby Head Bowls.  And I found a note from her in my Etsy inbox, offering me an Upsidedown Baby Head Bowl of my very own.

Squeee, I intoned with joy.  I perused her works a bit more, then shyly asked if perhaps I might instead have this one, and glazed in blue?  See, it’s still a head, but while the Upsidedown Baby Head Bowl looks like it could actually be an upside down baby head (you know, with the red interior and all), the Baby Head Cup looks…er…less realistic.  Because, you know, a real baby neck couldn’t actually support a baby head like that.  Considering the floppiness.  And all.

Ahem.

And this is why I adore the internet.  How without the internet would the world at large know that something as wondrous as a baby head bowl even existed?  How would we connect the person who envisioned said bowl with the people who would find it astounding enough to wish it upon their shelves?  And how without the internet would a baby head bowl of my very own be firing in a kiln somewhere in the Chicago area even as we speak?

Um, have I said the words “baby head bowl” enough times in this entry?  When we first started here some twenty-seven months ago, did you ever think we’d get to the point of discussing baby head bowls?

Me neither.

But I’m not complaining.

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