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31 January 2010

Chicken Lamp. You either want this or you don't. There can be no in-between.
post by: flapjax at midnite at: 20:12 | 42 comments
Me? I want it.
posted by flapjax at midnite 31 January | 20:12
Eeeee, it was a little scary for me.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 31 January | 20:14
No, thank you.
posted by amro 31 January | 20:21
Yeah, I don't.
posted by Stewriffic 31 January | 20:33
No way.
posted by flex 31 January | 20:36
OMG no.
posted by rmless2 31 January | 20:40
Ugh!! Hell no.
posted by leesh 31 January | 20:43
Strangely compelling. Yes, but not in a room where my mother or other elderly relatives could get freaked out by it.
posted by readery 31 January | 20:53
I think it has a place in someone's home.



Just not mine.
posted by sperose 31 January | 20:57
DON'T WANT.
posted by msali 31 January | 20:57
The perfect if you want to be salmonelluminated.
posted by jrossi4r 31 January | 21:01
WANT. *trips flapjax and leaps for chicken*
posted by maudlin 31 January | 21:03
Hands off my bird, maudlin!
posted by flapjax at midnite 31 January | 21:10
*calls in cheetahs for backup and growls*
posted by maudlin 31 January | 21:11
Hrm. I could go there.
posted by gaspode 31 January | 21:25
No worries. I've been distracted by Mr. Leon freakin' Russell on the Grammies. The chicken is no longer important.
posted by maudlin 31 January | 21:40
meh.
posted by special-k 31 January | 21:49
Mr. Leon freakin' Russell on the Grammies


Leon Russell rules. His contributions to the greatest blue-eyed soul/R&B roadshow/revue in the history of the world (that would be Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen) are incalculable.
posted by flapjax at midnite 31 January | 21:54
REGRETSY.
posted by pinky.p 31 January | 21:59
Don't.
posted by Triode 31 January | 22:04
Want mine with mashed potatoes, green beans and gravy please.
posted by gomichild 31 January | 22:26
UGH!
posted by BoringPostcards 31 January | 22:29
Done, gomichild. And a nice slice of pecan pie for dessert!

Now, BP, somehow I thought you'd be the type to dig this kind of thing...
posted by flapjax at midnite 31 January | 22:36
I laughed heartily, but no. Do not want!
posted by typewriter 31 January | 23:16
I want it, but only in a closet.

(for the surprise screaming)

(I call the big one bitey)
posted by The Whelk 31 January | 23:26
Which one was first...?
posted by Kronos_to_Earth 01 February | 00:39
I am glad this exists.

I will not buy one.
posted by dhartung 01 February | 00:46
Another one for the "Just because you can doesn't mean you should" file.
posted by jason's_planet 01 February | 01:14
I kind of want the chicken but what I REALLY want is this sentence: This anomaly has happened to humanity looks to me like diagnosis of the modern world society.

Where can buy?
posted by birdie 01 February | 01:17
It's Meh. It's been almost 25 years since Piss Christ and 20 years since the Rotting Meat Dress and Damien Hirst's sliced animals. A chicken lamp? Yawn. The Guernica bull spits on the chicken lamp.
posted by arse_hat 01 February | 03:12
I'd like this, but it would take a particular room to pull it off.
posted by Specklet 01 February | 05:27
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because the light was brighter there.

This conflates two humorous traditions. On one hand, there is the image of a chicken crossing the road, a theme well-known within American joke-onology. On the other hand, we have a blend of the ancient joke-theme of the spiritual seeker who had lost his keys and was looking for them where the light was greatest.

Chicken lamps are profound.
posted by twoleftfeet 01 February | 06:31
Only with matching 2L Coke bottle beside it.
posted by buzzman 01 February | 06:39
Even with a 100 watt globe, that things gonna take forever to cook.
posted by ninazer0 01 February | 06:43
The Guernica bull spits on the chicken lamp.


Heh. I never would've even thought to compare chicken lamp with Guernica. Not in a hundred years!
posted by flapjax at midnite 01 February | 07:20
It's enough for me that someone else has a chicken lamp.
posted by warbaby 01 February | 10:33
I guess we should all be glad I'm not crafty, because I have both the materiel and the personnel to make this at home.
posted by mudpuppie 01 February | 11:58
I am holding out for a Damien Hurst sharklamp.
posted by danf 01 February | 12:30
Oh, the poultry.

Don't want. It definitely doesn't go with my Art Nouveau theme or antique walnut furniture.
posted by Orange Swan 01 February | 13:18
One would not be good, but 5 or 6 would be pretty cool. There's not a room in my house where I could put 6 chicken lites. even so.
posted by theora55 01 February | 16:40
I shall pass, thanks for asking.
posted by deborah 01 February | 16:50
This is a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights. I'll be calling Brussels.
posted by mdonley 01 February | 17:52
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