Arts & Entertainment

 

 

What the Hell is a Dunny, Anyway? 5 x::ss:.:

Dunny by Kid Robot
www.kidrobot.com
$8 & up (waaaaaay up)

Paaacens is a funny thing; some people are
addicted to crack, others Warcraft, some people
purchase seemingly irrational things... Why? I don’t
know, it must be some deep seeded need to consume
at all costs.

Enter designer toys. That’s right, designer toys.
These lil’ mofos are directed at adults with disposable
income or addictive personalities. That’s me and
you. Kid Robot has whole line of such toys. One
specifically boner inducing line is called a Dunny
(slang for devil bunny.) Dunnies look like a Hello
Kitty doll on drugs and similar to Lay’s potato chips,
you can’t have just one. The Dunny is a small, 4”, 8”
or 20” tall, anthropomorphic rabbit made from a soft

vinyl that is used a blank canvas for urban graphic
artists. A Dunny has a 360 degree rotational head,
movable arms and generally something special to put
in each paw. Accessories include ice cream cones,
whips, knives, ray guns and yes, even a sheep. Each
“rabbit” is designed to represent everything from
Lenin to Mexican wrestlers to samurai’s to simply a
piece of graffiti. Awesome.

Now this may come as a big surprise but these
were invented in Asia, land of Kabuki, Sushi, and yes,
Hello Kitty. Michel Lua is credited with igniting the
urban vinyl toy movement in 1998, with the Gardener
series produced by Sony. Kid Robot pioneers Paul
Budnitz and Tristan Eaton began pushing the devil
bunnies into the Americas in 2004 and a phenomenon
was born. Dunnies have attracted designs by artists
such as Frank Kozik, Gary Baseman and Tara
Macpherson. Blank Dunnies are even available for
you to express your inner feelings in your very own

piece of Urban Art.

The words limited edition make me drool.
Dunnies are a limited edition toy, meaning they only
produce a certain number of each design with specific
designs having a lower production numbers. They
also come in what is called a “blind box,” meaning
you don’t know which Dunny you are buying, it’s
like a Christmas surprise for every eight dollars you
can scrabble together. The limited runs plus the blind
boxes equal some Dunnies being very rare and can
fetch up to $750 dollars on eBay. No shit.

Back to addiction. So I have this friend, and his
only goal was to get one of the more rare Dunnies. He
kept buying the blind boxes until he got the one he
wanted. All the common Dunnies he put sticky tack
on them and stuck them to his crappy apartment roof.
The one “rare” dunny was in a clear plastic case on his
shelf. Addiction is a funny thing, people.

 

Whatever

Happened to...? 5 cress

 

 

   

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Jodie Sweetin
Awkward middle sister on hit show
Full House and child star, Jodie
Sweetin has experienced some
turbulent times since portraying
the role of Stephanie Tanner. At
20-years old, Sweetin married

a Los Angeles Police officer
named Shaun Holguin Houston

   

Brigitte Nielsen
Brigitte Nielsen, 45, you may
remember from her former roles
in Red Sonja and Rocky IV. The
6’1” actress’ role in Rocky led to
her successful two-year marriage
to the 5’9” Sylvester Stallone
which ended very publicly due to
her philandering ways with the

Mr. T

 

Mr. T now lives in Sherman

Oaks, California, without a wife,
girlfriend or even a life partner.
After the conclusion of the A-Team,
Laurence Tureaud, also known as
Mr. T, teamed with fellow Rocky
III star Hulk Hogan as his tag team
partner in WWF Wrestlemania in

 

Monica Lewinsky
Lewinsky got famous for getting
frisky with President Clinton and
his lit cigar, and has admittedly
become “well-known for something
that isn’t great to be well-known
for.” Since the trial for the “sex”
scandal Lewinsky appeared on
satirical show like The Tom Green

 

 

where Candace Cameron, her

Full House elder sister, was in

her bridal party. Soon after her
marriage, Sweetin became heavily
addicted to methamphetamine,
also known as “the poor man’s
cocaine.” Her two-year battle

with the daily-fed addiction ended
when she lost consciousness due
to heart arrhythmia, hypothermia
and irregular breathing at which
point her marriage crumbled, and
she entered rehab for six weeks.
Sweetin remarried in 2007 to Cody
Herpin in Vegas after knowing him
for two months. They now have

a child and Sweetin is filming a
movie called Port City set to hit
theatres sometime in 2009.

 

 

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New York Jets’ Mark Gastineau.
Nielsen’s flourishing D-list career
led her to star in a few forgettable
movies and some very memorable
reality television shows like

the Surreal Life for her earnest
relationship with 5’7” rapper Flava
Flav, Celebrity Rehab with Dr.
Drew for her alcohol addiction
struggles, and most recently a
German reality show where she
would undergo six plastic surgeries
for her sagging skin. Nielsen

lives happily with her 30-year-old
bartender husband, Mattia Dessi
whom she married illegally in 2005.
Brigitte plans on posing of the cover
of Playboy later this after which she
plans on having more children by
using in vitro fertilization.

 

 

1985. The star has made several TV
and movie appearances as himself
and appeared in that terrible teen
movie spoof Not Another Teen
Movie as... himself! In 1995, 43-
year-old Mr T was diagnosed with
cancer, but with chemotherapy and
radiation therapy survived, despite
several tabloid reports that he had
in fact died. Mr. T, a born-again
Christian, attends church every
Sunday. In 2005, Laurence declared
that he would never wear his huge,
tacky chains again. Why you ask?
Because “It’s an insult to God,” he
said; Warcraft must be the exception
to his commitment though, since

in 2007, he wore that beautiful
signature jewelry of his for a World
of Warcraft advertisement.

 

 

Show and Saturday Night Live
before launching her own line of
handbags (cigar not included).

In 2004 Lewinsky wrote an
autobiography with the original title
My Life, in which she shows her
bitter side, discrediting Clinton for
not admitting their relationship was
mutual. In December 2006 Monica
completed her Master’s Degree in
Social Psychology from the London
School of Economics. The title of
her thesis was “In Search of the
Impartial Juror: An exploration of
the third person effect and pre-trial
publicity.”