As if Twitter weren’t enough of a way to stalk the celebrities (and yes, Heather Mills really did incoherently tweet at me yesterday), Celebritology came up with this list of stars who have contributed to Google’s Favorite Places project.
The way it works is thus: Celebs submit reviews of their fave haunts and Google pinpoints them on a map so everyone can know where Kristin Scott Thomas buys her flowers and how Al Gore can’t take his kids to the Maldives because of global warming.
Anyway. One of Moby’s Favorite Places in New York City caught my attention:
billy’s antiques
Last Updated by Moby on May 20
billy and his menacing(but friendly)rottweiler are outside every day
of the year selling the worlds best and strangest and most deviant antiques. you can find sex toys from the 1920’s and shrunken
heads and fetal pigs in jars and cocktail shakers and world war 2 binoculars and books on taxidermy and etc.
when billy’s closes i leave the lower east side.
“Fetal pigs in jars,” you guys! I know you’ve all been looking for exactly the right one to put on your coffee table, so you can thank Moby for pointing you in the right direction.
But the recommendation seems odd coming from a guy who, along with PETA, ran a hotline that you could call on Thanksgiving to get a side dish of guilt to go with your turkey.
The same guy who made a music video of a crazed chicken hacking Colonel Sanders to pieces.
And who also said in 2005, “When I think of the fact that literally tens of billions of animals are killed every year for human purposes, part of me wants to go out and join the Animal Liberation Front.” You know, the people who blow up people’s homes in the name of lab rats.
Anyone out there who would risk their life for a decorative pickled pig?
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I think Moby just felt like he was looking in a mirror… it felt like home.
And my ex-wife thought *I* had no taste…
You know, I think Moby is probably a sweet person. That said, I bet he is rather clammy and smells like cough drops.
Before anyone jumps in, all “I don’t see the hypocrisy here”, just ask yourself: IS there a fundamental disconnect between expressing hatred of someone for using animals “for human purposes”, and enjoying the sight of fetal pigs in jars? You’d think there would be. I mean, the pig didn’t end up in the jar for ITS OWN purposes. They usually don’t think that far ahead, I’m guessing.
I’m sure I’m opening a pickled pig jar, but maybe pig fetuses are as much “pig” as human fetuses are human to some people… Moby’s just pro-choice for all species.
Kristine – didn’t you know….Peta does not support the ethical treatment of humans. If so paint would not be thrown on people in the name of protecting animals. (And knowing Peta they probably use the “old style” paint with lead in it for good measures.)
Well not to generalize, but most people in the political spectrum that support PETA also are Pro Choice, so its probably not a cute little piggy to them yet, its just a blog of cells that resembles a cute little piggy.
Hmmm, now I’m hungry for a fetal hamburger.
Nailed! Like a butterfly on display. Nice Holly.
*blob of cells.
Kristine’s right! I had never thought of that before. The piglet is undoubtedly only in the jar b/c it was endangering the health of its mother. Or she just wasn’t ready to be a mom.
You know who I bet would fit nicely in a jar?
Moby.
You know, I was just thinking that bald head would fit nicely into a jar….but like Pasta said…I bet the whole thing would look even better in a Mason jar.
And yet he didn’t say ONE WORD about Rammstein’s cover of their album “Mutter,” which featured a HUMAN fetus in a jar of preservatives (used to be alcohol or formaldehyde, a scientist tells me it’s now formalin). Not that I think that’s excusable, I agree with Rammstein that it was a nicely done picture for the theme of the album but wish they had thought through a little better before they released it.
Anyway, I think this goes to show that many PETArds could give a s___ about people, and that’s why they love animals. Screw your fellow species, apparently they’re not cute enough. (I’ll put away my Box O’ Rant now before I squish something and send it to Ingrid Newkirk.)
What Anna said. Except I’m not nearly hip enough to have known about Rammstein OR their album.
I got the impression he was just commenting on all the oddities available at this place, and not endorsing a pickled fetal pig. Continue on though, you all seem to be having so much fun working yourselves into a froth.
If he truly believed in his previous quote, wouldn’t you think he’d say something like “and a pickled pig fetus, which was totally inappropriate and disgusting” or somesuch?
Wouldn’t he use this as a teaching point, and an opportunity to talk about what he believes?
Exactly Dave.
Moby seems to be wasting away – looks like a boy in his dad’s jacket.
Forget about the fetal pigs and “deviant antiques” – what about that menacing but friendly Rottweiler? Beyond that completely oxymoronic description of the dog, aren’t pets frowned upon by the PETA higher-ups?
I marched into Billy’s Antiques and Props…the word Props is important because I was informed by the Rottweiler Kill-Joy that the fetal pig was latex in colored water and it was used in some Italian Horror B-Movie.The sales woman”Kill-Joy” told me they are having a sale on Antique Baby Coffin’s. WOW ! What a town ,what a store.
The article you link to from your claim that the ALF blows up people’s homes says nothing of the sort. It’s FBI Domestic Terrorism section chief James Jarboe, reviewing what he calls “domestic terrorism”, and is actually arson, vandalism, and releasing animals.
On the ALF, he comments that ‘its operational philosophy discourages acts that harm “any animal, human and nonhuman.”‘.
An entirely separate environmental group, in sympathy with another group, which to be fair shares some members with the ELF, had burned down some unfinished new builds in a wilderness area. But even those are not “blown up” or “people’s homes”.
So. The “fetal pig in a jar” isn’t a “fetal pig in a jar”. And the “people who blow up people’s homes” (on the basis of the reference you give, at least) are nothing of the sort.
Given the whole point of your website is to call people out on hypocrisy and inaccuracy, and this article isn’t true, will you correct it?
Interestingly enough, Bill, since I wrote that story, animal-rights extremists burned down a guy’s home in Austria:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gAW4ZOIS81weuIs0rXdJkpG9799wD99S68000
And there’s always the example from UC-Santa Cruz last summer:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-trail/2008/08/04/two-uc-santa-cruz-researchers-victims-of-firebombing.html
Firebombs left on scientists’ doorsteps? Professional arson jobs to intimidate a CEO? I’m not sure I exactly slandered the ALF and their allies here.