That’s what the kool kids call St. Vincent dePaul. I went by there today, and got some fantastic treasures.

First, I got a couple shiny new tea cup/saucer sets. I’ve got a nice little collection going. Nothing fancy, maybe 20 sets. I just collect single cups with saucers, and don’t often see ones these days that suit my liking. These two were nice, and I got them for half-price. Nice.

I also got something else. I mean, really something else.

Some background here first.

I like frogs, frog things. Not all frog things though. People think sometimes that when you collect something, that you collect everything related to it. That’s not true – not even remotely. But I get cartoony frogs, beaded frogs, ceramic frogs, resin frogs, you name it. But I can’t even tell you what it is that makes some of the frogs likable and some of them not. No idea. But I think that if I were to show everyone this frog piece, it might make them think twice about picking out another plastic frog with a funny hat.

What you see there are taxidermied frogs, playing pool.

I thought it was just some weird one-off, but it turns out that they are a whole thing. There are two of the on ebay (here and here), with instruments.

Seems that it’s some kind of tradition. I’m still looking it up, I need to know more about this. It’s just really, really odd. But I like it.

Wow, I really like this style of gallery. I’m seriously considering replacing my coppermine gallery right now, which I don’t do lightly – I’ve used it since the dawn of dawn. This is just that friggin cool.

What you see below took me about 90 seconds to set up, using a Facebook album as a source. You can use a ton of other sources, and publish it to a ton of places. Including WordPress. I used my login info for this blog, and the following showed up (as code) in my post list. It shows as “scheduled”, which I didn’t even know you could do.

In any case, pretty impressive. I like. Looks like I can fiddle with the size too…let me do that now…ok, now it fits the page better. It looks really incredible with more pictures, as you can see here (where I originally found the Cooliris style).

There are lots of options, color and all that. And if you know a bit of code, you can play with it yourself, for options not on their list. This could really be fun.