Burnt Duck Face
We once had one of those waterless hot water bottles stuffed with grain that can be microwaved. This, like most things in our flat was duck shaped due to a penchant for the animals that neither myself or my lady friend can fully understand; fuck it though, everyone should have a hobby.

Obviously due to the need for such an item I hardly need mention that it was cold at the time, nowhere more so than the kitchen so one night I simply threw Duck Face into the microwave and retreated to the bedroom where there was, if not any more carpet, at least a girly creature with body warmth. After three minutes my return was heralded with first a smell very unlike toasted grain and then a sight that would make a certain late Mr Hussain (dictator not prophet) cackle with glee. The plate had come from the bearing on the microwave and cooked his fluffy duck face right in the area where Arnies skin comes away in the first Termonator movie.

So, long story short I decide to build him a new face. Make him better. The fabric gets repaired with an anti-static TV cloth and I order several sophisticated resistors and LED's from Hong Kong.... In bulk of course as there is little point ordering one. I wait for a fortnight, receive the package then put it along with duck to one side yet to be touched.

In place of any actual ambition I have sworn to one day give that simple cloth duck full of grain a wider spectrum of "sight" than any human. Hopefully with the ability to change the neighbours TV channel across the courtyard.
(Lot9H, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 14:46, Reply)