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Where's Sherlock?

The second video on this page makes excellent use of time-lapse photography on a Magic Garden (and it's great music, too):
http://www.erinlang.com/video.html

ooh! thanks Anna at D16.

These are the same gag as the Magic Christmas Tree http://www.stupid.com/stat/MGCT.html . I grew one of them a couple of years ago. They're neat, though you're right, they never look like the picture on the box.

And, of course, you always wonder what the heck it is that's actually growing and whether you'll be having radiation treatments a few years down the road because of it.

Where's Sherlock? Good question. Do Chicagoans get the reference? I'm originally from back east, and Sherlock was a squirrel character on a live-action east-coast kids show called The Magic Garden in the 1970s http://www.caroleandpaula.com/themagicgarden.html .

Hippie chicks Carol and Paula would sing songs, tell jokes, and hang out with hand puppets. It seems to have only been a New York City local show (channel 11, as I recall). Three words, even back then: huge cult following.

You know those small rubber looking objects, like animals or 'body parts' (nose, ear etc) that grow when you put them in water. I gave my ex a tiny brain once, he put it in a jar with water and it became huge. It actually looked like the real thing! Like a brain on formaldehyde, quite interesting. Unfortunately, it didn't stay that way and kept growing and growing until it became a formless blob and really gross looking.

We did something like this in girl scouts. We did it with brick pieces, ammonia, salt, landry blueing, and food coloring. They're just salt crystals, nothing too harmful.

Mike, are you talking New Zoo Revue??

No. New Zoo Revue was on at the crack of dawn. That was with Doug and Emmy Jo. Every day's a different show. :-)