Wage Cakes

What's better than coffee and classic coffee cake? Enjoying it with our good friend, Mr. Wade Wage. He is our best friend, and always draws smiles our way.

When we first met Wade, he was missing his apron, down on his luck and lost, but he was never defeated. His inner compass brought him right to our home where we made him a new wardrobe (apron) and adorned him with service medals.

He knows he has a home for life, but keeps a couple of quarters taped under his apron, in case he needs to call home. Maybe we should just get him a cell phone.

Pointy Max and Friends

Pointy Max and Friends
Originally uploaded by Sidd's Landing

We are delighted to welcome Pointy Max to our Uglydoll family. He is sweet, handsome, points the way to great adventures, tasty snacks, and good times. He is a handmade Uglydoll designed by David Horvath and made by Sun-Min Kim.

Twas the Night Before Ugly

This week is like the night before Christmas for many devoted Uglydoll collectors. Each day we are anticipating the arrival of our newly adopted handmade Uglydolls. Other collectors await their limited edition and custom Kaiju and original David Horvath drawings.

I rarely leave the house during postal hours for fear that special parcel will arrive and I will not be here to sign for it and greet my new adoptee. This may sound like a pain, bur really it's a pleasure to wait, wonder, and feel that exhileration when the postal truck pulls up. If not today, maybe tomorrow.

Every new Uglydoll arrival is an event. But a handmade Uglydoll is the Main Event, the whole enchilada. David Horvath tells us this group of handmades is the last. So this arrival is especially sweet and dear. It will be a strange new world without handmade Uglydolls to look forward to. But David and Sun-Min have never made a wrong or bad decision concerning Uglydolls and their fans, so I trust where they are going and follow happily along. The news of the end of handmades has made the few I have all the more precious to me.

To see the object of my affection cast your eyes up to the photo. See the pointy-headed red fellow at the right of the photo? That's him. That's my Pointy Max. Is he not a dreamboat?

Moving from right to left: Pointy Max red, Big Toe, Cozy Monster blue, Batty Shogun pinkish, Pointy Max blue (brother to my Pointy), Batty Shogun red, Cozy Monster green, and half of Cozy Monster orange.

Not pictured are Ket, and all the other Uglydolls in the Mono colors.

Where is all this highly anticipated Ugliness coming from? Dehara and David Have Mono art show at Stitch in Tokyo.

It is unconfirmed, but likely that many of these new handmade Uglydoll styles will make their way into the retail Uglydoll line-up, but in other colors. That would be cool for you and for me. I would dearly love to have one of each. But money and fairness prevented me from having more than one. We were limited to the purchase of one handmade Uglydoll per person. And no, it wasn't too hard to pick just one. It was love at first sight with Pointy Max. OK, it was kinda hard. I wanted MORE! I admit. But I'm happy happy happy.

Please come tomorrow, Pointy Max!

Dr. Max Abima Prescription #1

Dr. Max Abima says exercise is important. So get out your cart and have someone push you, at least a half hour a day, 5 times a week.

It's his prescription of the week. It will put the blush back into your cheeks. Just look at Max.

Mystery Man

Who is that dark and mysterious guy with Kaiju Wage and Ice Bat???

Winkolina and the Bees

Today our little Winkie went on a bike ride with us. She and her pal Cinko road on the handlebars. Suddenly we noticed BEES. And more bees. Instinctively we peddled faster, but the bees stayed with us. And all the bees were buzzing around Winkolina. They paid no attention at all to Cinko or the rest of us. The faster we road, the faster the bees flew in their effort to stay with Winkie. Finally we went so far and so fast we lost them. Winkie was unharmed and is still talking about it. She is the bees knees.

Grass Hut

Grass Hut. Oh yeah! It was an amazing show. Meeting Bwana Spoons, Le Merde, and Scrappers was so much fun. They are all very kind and cool people. And talent too! And beards. Hum, maybe I should grow one.

Dr. Max Abima is now a patron of the arts.

Stay tuned for more pics and greater detail of our trip.