These are a couple video demonstrations of musician Anthony Dickens’ Circle Guitar, a guitar with a rapidly spinning disk that strums the strings, so a performer only has to fret. There are also buttons that activate various effects, and the guitar is MIDI and DAW compatible. Some more info about the player guitar while I call Anthony, yell ‘Free Bird!’, and hang up:

Whoa — pushing guitar playing into new, unexplored territories?! I’d make sure to load up on beef jerky and bring a gun if I were you. “We’re talking about playing guitar, not trekking to the other side of a strange new continent.” Fine, you can borrow my bear whistle, but you better name a mountain range or river after me.

Excited about the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop remake by Netflix, fan Denver Jackson went and made a live-action remake of the title sequence himself. He did a great job. Honestly, I had almost forgotten Netflix was still working on this project. I suppose I have something to look forward to now after all. “Ahem.” What? “AHEM.” Oh, of course — and waking up next to you every morning, honey. *eye roll* I thought that was a given.

Keep going for the video, as well as the original for reference.

These are the food-safe, ultra-realistic human skull bowls crafted and sold by Etsy shop CatacombCulture. They hold 16-ounces, come in a variety of different colors, and are hand wash only and NOT microwave safe. I am okay with that. Unfortunately, they cost $175+ depending on color, which I am much less okay with because I’m poor. Oh well, I guess there’s always plan B. “What’s plan B?” Oh *handing shovel* I think you know good and well what plan B is.

This is the Kickstarter campaign for the very cleverly named Stairslide, modular plastic slide pieces that can be nested on top of each other to create a slide to fit any length stairs. Each piece covers three stairs, so divide your total stairs by 3 to figure out how many pieces you’ll need. For reference, a 3-piece set for nine stairs is approximately $100. For further reference, when I was a kid we used to just ride down the stairs on a big pillow. Or, if we really wanted to risk injury when we hit the front door, a laundry basket or baking sheet. *unconsciously rubbing plate in neck* Those were simpler times.

Keep going for their Kickstarter video.

Because who doesn’t want the salty, vinegar-y taste of a pickle on their lips at all times, this is Mr. Pickle’s World Famous Pickle Lip Balm ($12 on Amazon). Questionable world fame aside, the $12 lip balm seems to be promoted as a gag gift, which makes sense since(!) I can’t imagine anybody using it more than once besides my girlfriend, who saw this over my shoulder and insisted I buy her a four pack so she can keep one upstairs, one downstairs, one in her bag, and leave one at work. She’s, uh, she’s a legit pickle fiend. When we go grocery shopping we have to go to two different grocery stores, a specialty foods shop AND the farmer’s market just to get all the different kinds and brands of pickles she needs for the week. If she kisses me and I don’t taste pickle I accuse her of being a doppelgänger. She always thinks it’s funny and tries to laugh it off but I do make her stand in front of the mirror to prove she has a reflection.

This is a video of a $1.6-million 1,750-horsepower SSC Tuatara hitting 331.15MPH (532.93km/h) while going for a new production car world speed record on a closed seven mile stretch of State Route 160 near Pahrump, Nevada, about an hour west of Las Vegas. It also made a run in the opposite direction (into the wind) with a top speed of 301.07MPH, for a two-way average of 316.11MPH, beating the previous official two-way record set by a Koenigsegg Agera RS on the same highway in 2017 by 46.6 MPH. That is quite an improvement! For reference, I don’t personally like driving anything over 35MPH, but can be a passenger in a car traveling up to around 50MPH. Anything over that and I’ll swear up and down I’ll never ride with you again. “But the speed limit’s 65!” Then we’re taking back roads.