Long-legged yeti plush by Csaba Klement.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Ranchita Yeti
The reader yeti.shyn (who previously posed a question about a Mystery Yeti) sent me the following note and accompanying photo-set after encountering Joe Rauh's roadside yeti. Note the serious yeti love on display:
Love it! Thanks, yeti.shyn
This here is an open invitation to send me any encounters you have with yeti out in the wild!
discovered on my trip to Anza Borrego desert last weekend. zoomed by on the highway. STOP THE CAR!!
Love it! Thanks, yeti.shyn
This here is an open invitation to send me any encounters you have with yeti out in the wild!
Friday, May 21, 2010
Happy Cryptovibes
If this yeti blog was a book, I would use this as a blurb:
It's from my favorite Cryptozoologist/Author/Museum Founder/Copycat Effect Expert, the one and only, Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo.
Check out his great post where this "blurb" comes from - Yearning for Yetis, which features other yeti goodness.
And be sure to donate to The International Cryptozoology Museum!
"I Love The Yeti" is well worth visiting when you are having a down day. It is always good for an instant smile, as the popular cultural Abominable Snowmen (especially the incorrect white ones) seem to shout forth with “happy” cryptovibes.I like that: "happy cryptovibes". :-)
It's from my favorite Cryptozoologist/Author/Museum Founder/Copycat Effect Expert, the one and only, Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo.
Check out his great post where this "blurb" comes from - Yearning for Yetis, which features other yeti goodness.
And be sure to donate to The International Cryptozoology Museum!
Not Yeti Friday - Twilight Zone Gremlin
In the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", William Shatner looks out a plane window during a flight and sees this:
Is that a yeti?
Sure looks like one.
OK, a pretty weird one.
But it's not a yeti. It's a gremlin. Here's the whole clip:
This episode was so popular that they remade it in the 1980s with John Lithgow. The gremlin looked a little less yeti-ish:
They also started making a lot of merchandise of the nostalgic variety, like action figures:
Look at this last one. If you didn't know it referred to this episode, you'd just be like, "That's a yeti!"
In fact, people often refer to the creature as an Abominable Snowman when describing this episode, rather than a Gremlin, just 'cause it's SOOO YETI.
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(And we have much bigger touchstone for the concept of Gremlins now in the popular culture. These gremlins, I might point out, are diminutive, cold-blooded reptiloids. They are transformed from their polar opposites (the white furry, yeti-ish mogwai) when fed after midnight. So in some sense our concept of the yeti (large, furry, mammalian) is almost the complete opposite of what we now think of as gremlins.)
Is that a yeti?
Sure looks like one.
OK, a pretty weird one.
But it's not a yeti. It's a gremlin. Here's the whole clip:
This episode was so popular that they remade it in the 1980s with John Lithgow. The gremlin looked a little less yeti-ish:
They also started making a lot of merchandise of the nostalgic variety, like action figures:
Look at this last one. If you didn't know it referred to this episode, you'd just be like, "That's a yeti!"
In fact, people often refer to the creature as an Abominable Snowman when describing this episode, rather than a Gremlin, just 'cause it's SOOO YETI.
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(And we have much bigger touchstone for the concept of Gremlins now in the popular culture. These gremlins, I might point out, are diminutive, cold-blooded reptiloids. They are transformed from their polar opposites (the white furry, yeti-ish mogwai) when fed after midnight. So in some sense our concept of the yeti (large, furry, mammalian) is almost the complete opposite of what we now think of as gremlins.)
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Mounties-As-Weapons
Artist Ryan Heshka has made yeti before. He has an art show going on May 21 until June 13 at Rotofugi Gallery in Chicago.
Via BoingBoing
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We've seen Trees-As-Weapons. But not "Mounties-As-Weapons".
New trend?
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