Deathstroke the Cuddliest Terminator (and more)

Plush Deathstroke, Booster Gold and Ganesh by Kittyzilla on sale at Etsy.

*Buy Deathstroke toys at Entertainment Earth.

Ganesh

Ganesh by Saryth Chareonpanichkul.

*Previously: Plush Ganesha.

*Find Ganesha statues at eBay.

Plush Ceiling Cat (and more)

Plush Ceiling Cat by Yummy Pancake on sale at Etsy. It's part of the plush mythology contest I mentioned earlier this week. The other entries in the contest are all on sale here. Below are a few of my favorites:






*Previously: Alfred Hitchcock's Ceiling Cat.

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Super Maria

Tattooed Mario Bros. fan, tentacled Vader, and Ganesha by Ruben Cantuni. You can see work in progress images of Super Maria and download some cool toadstool patterns here, he has t-shirts for sale and desktops for download here, and check out a big Ganesha tattoo here.

*Previously: Ganesha sculpture.

*Find Ganesha statues at eBay.

Sitar Hero t-shirt

Today's $9 (plus shipping) Tee Fury t-shirt is Sitar Hero by AJ Paglia.

*Previously: Ganesha on his bicycle.

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Ganesha, Mecha-Submarine t-shirt designs

Two Threadless designs that caught my eye:


"Ganesh will get you there" by Mike Reisel. If you'd like the chance to buy it, vote by clicking on the voting widget:




"Submarine Menagerie" t-shirt design by igo2cairo. If you'd like the chance to buy it, vote by clicking on the voting widget:


*Previously: Seahorse necklace.

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Paper Ganesha Sculpture (link roundup)

Paper Ganesha sculpture by She Hirata.

And a few more links:

1. Nationally recognized anti-gang leader accused by federal prosecutors of helping his fellow gang members terrorize the Lafayette Park area west of downtown Los Angeles.

2. In other local news, unfortunate people stuck in Van Nuys are begging to join my awesome home town of Sherman Oaks.

3. Embarrassing highlights from the Moneyball script.

4. Amazing how fast the story of Mark Sanford turned into yesterday's news. My favorite aspect - - John Kerry used it as an opportunity to make a joke about Sarah Palin: "Too bad, if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin."

*Previously: Palin's Twitter background.

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Stills from the Beatles Rock Band trailer

I created a gallery of stills from the magnificent trailer for The Beatles Rock Band. I think the elephant just bumped Lord Angral off the pedestal of best new video game star.




















Per Cartoon Brew, the people who worked on the trailer include:
Passion Pictures
Pete Candeland
Robert Valley
Alberto Mielgo

*Previously: Beatles in Wonderland animated gif.

*Buy Beatles posters at eBay.

Plush Corporate Ganesha

One of six different colors of Cupco's plush Corporate Ganesha for the Craft Act show opening in May in Australia. Go here to see Cupco's Samurai Super Mario. And here's Cupco's currently empty Etsy shop.

*Previously: Ganesha as a rock god.

*Find Ganesha statues at eBay.

Tentacle hot dog

Tentacle hot dog by Eric White. He has various prints and books on sale in his webstore, including a twisted Ganesha. Via these sites.

*Previously: Ill-advised Carson Palmer hot dog ad.

*Find Ganesha statues at eBay.

Ganesha, rock god

Two t-shirt submission that caught my eye at Threadless. You can vote for them by clicking on the voting widgets:



Ganesha by Marylene Charvet.






Gathering by Renee Del Monaco.



*Previously: Ganesha, patron saint of marijuana growers.

*Find Ganesha statues at eBay.

New t-shirts from Design By Humans

The latest crop of t-shirts from Design By Humans is unusually attractive.


Ekadanta by Jeff Battocletti.




Pen Tool Sun by Bortwein.



Wrong Shirt by Colin Gauntlett.

*See more of my t-shirt picks here.

Marijuana growers believe Ganesha is their patron saint

The New Yorker has a long, fascinating article about the entrepreneurs who grow medical marijuana in California. This detail stood out:

While Blue napped, I wandered around his apartment, and counted nearly a dozen images and carvings of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha. The proliferation of Ganesha dates back to a well-publicized federal bust in January, 2007, when the D.E.A. seized the medicine and cash of eleven pot dispensaries in Los Angeles. The only major dispensary that wasn’t busted had a Ganesha in its window. Now it is hard to find a karmically inclined ganja dealer in Los Angeles who doesn’t own a herd of lucky figurines.

Read the whole article by David Samuels here.

(Marble Ganesha idol found at Flickr.)

*Previously: Ganesha plush.

*Find Ganesha statues at eBay.