THE FREE TABLE

Here be dragons

This week we have a truly magical collection of items:

The Silmarillion by Tolkien, in Spanish. Of course, its accompanied by an plastic alligator/crocodile… a color of which probably does not exist in nature.

ID, Id and Some Talking Bears

This week we have:

1. One dream dictonary, written by one Betty Bethards a self help guru from Peteluma who, according to her awesome website, is “Still A Force.”

2. An ID bracelet, engraved for Mike. A great find, but only if your name happens to be Mike.

3. And finally the Berenstain Bears “Messy Room” Board Game. I barely remember these characters from childhood, but apparently this is not their first foray into gaming. They also produced a game for Game Boy Color that was “one of the worst games in the history of electronic gaming” (Wikipedia, as if you needed documentation of this fact).

From the X Files

What is this? Some kind of alien technology…?

More than likely, its a piece of trim that fell off someone’s car. A space car.

A Filter, Fine English Tea, Fir Mulch and Fancy Shoes

This month’s Free Table offering is brought to you by the letter F:

Some kind of air filter (perhaps a from a vacuum cleaner?), a small can of “English tea”, a pair of chunky white lady’s shoes, and of course…

a slightly used bag of fir mulch. 2 cubic feet!

Spent Spirits plus one Sultry Sprite

A very festive offering this month on the Free Table: three bottles of half-empty infused vodka thingies, one half-empty bottle of strawberry daquiri mix, and one fairy poster. Sounds like a party to me!

If you drink all of that stuff in one setting, you will definitely see some fairies… or at leasta gnome or two.

Piggie, Purse, Pandas and… Mills?

There was a cornucopia of mildly useful oddities on the table this week, but here are the highlights, brought to you by the letter P (mostly):

a Plastic Pig, a gold lame’ Purse, a board game called Panda Picnic Party… and an admission letter from Mills.

Something tells me the person who put the sassy gold purse on the Table is not the same person who put the piggie and the boardgame on there.

those are some cracky lookin’ pandas!

Blow-up Green Grid and some Dutch books

Okay. This week’s offerings are pretty nutty. First, a giant inflatable green… grid (I guess).

If thats not loopy enough for you, then please know it was accompanied by a whole mess of books about Christianity in Dutch and German:

If the books were Swedish, then I could definitely see some kind of retro-simplistic-IKEA-art kind of connection there. The mysteries continue…

Brokedown granite

This week: some towing paperwork and a half empty bottle of granite cleaner from Method. 

The mind boggles. I can see the usefulness of the granite cleaner, but… the towing papers? 

Irish Stout and some Brillo pads

A lone bottle of D`Arcy’s Irish Stout. Google searches reveal that the brewery, Dublin Brewing Company, closed up shop in 2005. That means this beer is at least 3 years old. Yum!

If that offer doesn’t entice you, how about this:  

A bag of slightly rusted generic Brillo pads! Perfectly useful.

Red shirt Snoopy

This week, we have:

• a plastic bag full of glass candle holders

• one miniature plastic soccer ball

• 2 rhino figurines

• one dinosaur figurine (a parasaurolophus, to be exact)

• one Snoopy

Uh oh. Looks like Snoopy is in a precarious situation here. The fact that he’s wearing a red shirt probably doesn’t improves his chances.