If one were to explain, one would be hard pressed to explain just how awesome tiki's life has been this past day. First, we started in Commieland, ie, the Kremlin, and it just got better.

We didn't actually get intoLenin's final resting place yet. As with so many things in Russia, first you must stand in a line. Then the line gets you to another line, where you go through a metal detector. Then sundry lines to check your camera, and then you get to line up to see our comrade.

( Commies! )

Before Volks offered frightfully expensive limited edition Super Dollfie versions of Suiseiseki and Souseiseki from Rozen Maiden, they produced an even more limited doll of Shinku.

Given that, since they were announced, we've been fantasizing about purchasing the twins, we've also let our brain wander out into that joyful territory where we also happen upon, and purchase, the original Shinku.

Well, as Eminiem says, oops, there goes gravity. SD Shinku actually showed up on Yahoo Japan auctions this week.

For 600,000 yen.

And she's already got a bid. (She had a bid yesterday--from a buyer with no feedback. We will continue to monitor the situation.)

Just for gravity's sake, it was for approximately that amount, back in 1992, that we purchased our beloved '88 Honda Civic. We were a newly minted PhD, and in the middle of our first (and last) ill-paying academic job. We had to spend many an evening subsisting on ramen noodles to make the payments.

The Civic still runs. The odometer reads well over 100,000 miles now. It's taken us to LA. It's taken us to the Grand Canyon. It's taken us back and forth to Noxon, Montana, half a dozen times. It's gone on mad daytrips down to Portland, and up to Vancouver. It's hauled futon frames, leaf bags, IKEA cabinets, three full-sized Lilo & Stitch surfboards, and transported Philip's impossibly large "Predateur" bust--so large we had to roll down the window to fit it--to the airport. It still sits loyally in the driveway at Casa de Tikistitch, awaiting new duties.

And, that's what they want for Shinku?

Damn.

Does it come with Captain Cecil's Dreamy Deathcamp?

EDIT: In case you wanna look, here's the linkie.

Was kind of impressed with this. On a typical show, it would have been all about the creepy, and making fun of the owners. I think this sets about the right tone.

Via igrrl, via DOA, via SOME SPECIAL CIRCLE OF HELL!!!



Volks you are full of teh suck!



92,000 yen?

APIECE???

Die die die stabby stabby.....

We *heart* Arashi!!!

...and it's silly.

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And all this time, I thought Tohya had brown eyes!

Mr. Tikistitch was On A Mission last night.

"There's a doll shop closing in Bothell. They're selling fixtures! We must away!" he cried. Or, something like that. Before I knew it, we were in my Civic hatchback, barrelling north. Which is how I found myself, late Saturday night, digging around in a dusty, crowded doll hospital, located in a place called something like the Ye Olde Country Thyme Malle.



I made off with many big, big doll stands.

( Stand! )