Web Zen: Bacon Zen 3

Image: A bacon lamp shade, by Kris Kelley of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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• [jennybean42]

  I sent that to my friend who ADORES bacon and he said:
  “Wow, I’m usually not sensitive like this but flesh lampshade is a little taboo, no? “

• [Anonymous]

  Well done! Not only is this an insult to the animal it came from (if you gonna kill it, butcher it, and cure it – make it sustain you, don’t make ‘art’ out of it), it actually looks utterly shite too. Like something put together by a six year old.

• [mtdew]

  If you use a really hi wattage bulb, would the bacon start to cook? If so it is the greatest lamp EVER.

  Oh and last I checked, bacon still tastes great so , meme or not, it hasn’t jumped the shark. :)

• [extrafancy]

  I don’t know if these have been mentioned before.. but everytime I see Bacon Band-Aids, my inner child (and inner bacon-lover) wants in.

  http://www.mcphee.com/items/11476.html

• [extrafancy]

  Also, I once created a “Bacon Cube” for a sculpture class. It consisted of Wood, Bacon, and Shellac!!!

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/extrafancy/3046505401/in/set-72157609588793712/

• [extrafancy]

  http://www.mcphee.com/categories/meat.html

  More Bacon – Bacon Wallet, Bacon Jelly Beans…

• [technogeek]

  Well, it’s leather, sort of almost…

• [mellisahaward]

  Even i am not sure about it…

• [AlmostReadytoFly]

  I don’t get it. I’m partial to a bacon buttie, but I really don’t get the “everything is better…” meme.

• [Sputnik]

  For Gods sake,
  FIND. A. DIFFERENT. MEME.

• [pupdog]

  Sputnik, what does some imaginary friend in the sky have to do with the Hallowed Pig?

• [hassan-i-sabbah]

  Bacon! Just like Human flesh!

• [Anonymous]

  I must concur; this has to end. Am I the only one who finds the above photo just a little creepy? Maybe I’ve been spending too much time on the wiki for Ed Gein.

• [bp]

  Penn Jillette equates the addition of bacon to the admission of failure:

  “Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You’re basically saying, ‘I can’t make this other food taste good, so I’ll throw in bacon.’”

  Still, I like the bacon lampshade as much as I like meat hats and books bound in human flesh, which is to say that I like it a lot. We seem to, as a species, often overlook the versatility of flesh, and I see this lampshade as a tentative initial step towards a bright and beautiful future that is characterized, at least in part, by an appreciation for the aesthetics and utility of meat-based decor.

• [Sputnik]

  Every time you overuse an internet meme, God kills a kitten.

• [FoetusNail]

  Old joke alert:

  What is the difference between a contribution and a commitment?

  Well, think of your two eggs, bacon, and toast breakfast. The chicken made a contribution; the pig made a commitment.

• [Anonymous]

  Don’t forget the distinctly delicious Chocolate Bacon Cupcake:

  http://www.teeandcakes.com/cupcakes/images/febr3.jpg

• [ornith]

  When I look at the baconlamp, all I can think of is that dog treats commercial. You know.

  I. smell. bacon! BACON BACON BACONBACONBACON!

• [Duffong]

  Yeah… I dunno about this one. I love bacon. I could put it on anything to make it taste better. But seriously, using the flesh of an animal as a lamp shade transports our mental reasoning capabilities right back into the neolithic age.

• [efalk]

  Who can now deny that bacon has jumped the shark?

• [TroofSeeker]

  Obviously Bacon Boy doesn’t own a dog.
  I heard that in Dog Heaven, everything is made of bacon.

• [Enormo]

  Very Silence of the Lambs.

• [FrankensteinsMonster]

  me like bacon raw, still on pig.

• [zauberkuh]

  My bacon Sushi Wrapper Creation:
  http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/3276237245_58591f5244.jpg?v=0

• [Sijay]

  Mmm shark bacon.

• [presto]

  Why did this have to come from Baton Rouge? Why? Like Baton Rouge doesn’t already have image problems from being a giant abandoned 1970 era strip mall taking up 20 square miles, now there is also Baconhead McPorkershpiel.

  I think LSU basically seceded from the city. Too much bad press. Now they have their own cops, power, garbage service, etc.

• [amurphy]

  Now, that’s just weird.

• [Boeotian]

  I’m agnostic, but bacon is the only thing that makes my certainties shiver. It must be something sent from above.

• [Wazzat]

  Ooo, don’t like it at all. It’s too, well it’s just too….it’s waay too Texas Chainsaw Massacre’y’