there just aren't enough guinea pig stories

[ans99]

so imagine my surprise when i get a lovely, author-signed picture book about a wily trickster guinea pig in the mail from a totally secret admirer.

my immediate thought, besides feeling my heart grow three times its size?? "photoshoot!"

i hope you enjoy, mysterious gifter :)


every little pig should be read this story...


...and then given the opportunity to eat it.

of course, they elected to pee on the tablecloth instead and thus the photoshoot was magically, tragically over.

ETA: uploaded less pixelated jpg for first picture. lordy was that grainy.

Comments

[freyja.livejournal.com]

it's an old photographer's trick called "keep taking pictures until the animal does the correct thing." i'm sure you know it ;)

i thought for sure it must be you, but didn't want to be like "OH HAI EYETEETH THANX FOR TEH BOOK LOL" and then have it be from someone entirely different who just ran across it, and some huge coincidence that it was the same book we were discussing earlier.

could happen i guess!

and thanks for thinking of me! besides it just being an awesome story as is, it's also gorgeously illustrated so i really enjoyed it.

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

It makes me wonder if a lot of cultures have a tradition of food animals as trickster figures. Here we have Brer Rabbit (and his descendant Bugs Bunny). Do you know of any others?

Bonus: An entertaining playthrough of I Wanna Be The Guy!

[freyja.livejournal.com]

i don't know if it's usually food animals so much as naturally smaller and weaker ones. there's anansi the spider; i'm sure someone eats him ;) i doubt there are any trickster cows, which makes me a little sad. i bet there would be a trickster goat though.

that guy's voice is hurting my ears!