Dean: "You know what I hate? The backs of googly eyes are made of plastic instead of paper now, so they won't stay on. They always come off."
Zina: "I have some craft glue that would probably work better, but I'd have to supervise the kids when they use it."
Dean: "They should be able to use white glue."
Zina: "You're passionate about this."
Dean: "I am, because I have many happy memories of playing with googly eyes. There was a craft store on the way home from school in [I've forgotten which of the many places he lived as a kid he named] and we would stop and buy googly eyes and pom-poms,* and I spent many happy hours making little pom-pom creatures which we had fun playing with. We would also take them to school and try to sell them."
Zina: "That's why you're rich now."
Dean: "Yeah, that's when I decided that selling things wasn't a fun way to make a living."
*I did not note whether he said pom-pom or pompon, and of course you can't determine a person's spelling of googly eyes from hearing them say it.
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And the Amy Sedaris "Seeing Food" story continues here.
These are hilarious -- the eggs, the lobsters, the Cheerios -- some people have put way too much time into this. (Arguably, any time is too much time, but it's one thing to slap a couple of googly eyes on a potato and a whole 'nother to do it to each piece of an entire bowl of cereal.) Where did you find this?
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