happy 2010 to all our gerbilize friends!

the gerbilize gals sincerely apologize for falling off the face of the blog for a little while there, but we are BACK! and with a brand new submission to boot!

so….waaaaaaay back in november (i know, i know, i’m so *sorry* we were such slackers), we got a *lovely* little email from diane, of Diane’s Knitted World:

Hi. I am the one that has that knitted gerbil pattern. I have been making other gerbil jewelry lately using laser etching. Attached is a photo on what I am creating for the blog. They are pendants for my knitted necklaces. I also attached a picture of my knitted gerbils. Complete with eyes and whiskers.

Diane
Dianes Knitted World

http://knitting.hhgerbilry.com

http://www.etsy.com/shop/gerbilgal

diane - u.s.a.

diane is the creator of the gerbil pattern that was our FIRST featured project by gerbilize gal #1 (remember this?), and we are *SO* giddy that she sent us such a cool example of her new gerbil related work.

diane - u.s.a.

diane has been making these ULTRA cool gerbil necklaces using laser etching. and it’s pretty much safe to say that the gerbilize gals love ANYTHING involving lasers!!!! it’s amazing how these gerbils look sooooo soft and pretty…..

upon further examination of her online shop, she’s been creating a whole BUNCH of gleeful gerbil goodies! our favourite has GOT to be the Cute Gerbil Organic Men’s T-Shirt – seriously.  i can almost guarantee that gerbilize gal #2 is gonna buy this for every man in her life.

thank you, diane, for sharing your gerbil goods with us. the gerbilize gals salute your love of all things gerbilicious!

check out what our friend liz (from burlington) sent us!

be sure to watch the video.

Hi! Saw this on Omni News and had to google it for you. It’s a hotel where you can live like a hamster.

Enjoy!

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5AG1QX20091117

i’m not really sure how i feel about this concept, but i am really into the hamster head hats! also – it reminds me of a time in grade seven when me and a friend decided to try eating some of the food he fed his bunny rabbit, just to see what it was like. honestly, it was pretty bland and not unlike all bran cereal buds…


mansoor, seattle

mansoor, seattle

who knew that computers were just a big showy way of harnessing the awesome brilliance generated by hamsters running around on their wheels????? well, apparently my buddy mansoor did, and here’s the proof! i love it that this little guy totally looks like his arms are crossed while he’s taking a well deserved siesta in the midst of a hard work day.  maybe this is why my own computer has been running soooooo slllllooooowwww lately. maybe my hamster passed out and forgot to set an alarm. or maybe he is just overworked and feels under-appreciated and has decided to go on strike. i should really check out what’s going on in my tower, huh?

mansoor – i don’t know where you found this picture, but thank you for sharing it with us! \O/

a new submission – YES!!!! it’s been *SO* long since anyone emailed us with some gerbilizing love….and boy oh boy did we get love from miss jesslyn delia! i’ve been following her blog for a while now, and this hidden gem from ottawa has been hinting that she was gonna send us something for a little while, but apparently she “just had to wait for the right squirrel to come along“. well i’m glad that squirrel finally did come along because the image that this poem creates in my mind is genius! i totally imagine this swell of background music that includes finger snaps and a long slow blow from the horn…very “the outsiders AND david lynch meets tom and jerry on a very bad day”.

squirrel.

square-off over a glass

bottle, now a piece of trash

or home for spiders,

one orange tabby and you,

you versus everything,

wet-like webbed hands and

an eye twitch, you

with your cheeks puffed

like a baseball glove,

stand-off like those school

yard fist fights right

before they start

seriously, i love this poem. don’t you? now after reading it you should all scurry over to jesslyn delia’s blog to read some more of her written work. she has poetry, fiction and monologues to boot! seriously, please go support this budding young talent because the gerbilize gals are all about bringing new eyes to new talents that don’t always get the recognition that they deserve 🙂

ok, has everyone seen this yet? http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/squirrel-portrait-banff-pod.html

seriously, this is too hilarious for words. animals are *way* more clever than we give them credit for, in my opinion. and now there’s this ultra nifty thing called “the squirrelizer“, which allows you to insert that photo-hogging little rodent into your own photos!

we, the gerbilize gals, are challenging our readers to go to this site (http://www.lutralutra.co.uk/squirrelizer/) and “squirrelize” your own photos. then send it in to us, along with whatever little story you want to add (fiction or fact) and we will post it here on the blog as always.

i’ll get everyone started by showing you my own squirrelized pic

gerbilize gal #1, toronto

gerbilize gal #1, toronto

here we see that same sneaky squirrel is causing a stir yet again by flooding toronto’s union station!  is he gonna start to take responsibility for his actions, or just keep going with that “who? what? me?” look of feigned confusion on his face???? seriously, that little scamp created *QUITE* a frustrating commute for me and many other riders in the early hours of a sunday morning….

ok, brace yourselves for some serious awesomeness…….

the other day i was bouncing around on the net and stumbled across a forum post that had *this* photograph on display:

chris mcveigh, halifax

chris mcveigh, halifax

so i nearly gagged on my own excitement, and after a bit of internet stalking, i discovered the following:

  • this photo was taken by chris mcveigh
  • chris is canadian
  • the chipmunk is totally real (from the official star wars blog: “At first glance, Chris McVeigh’s photo of a trooper action figure riding on top of a chipmunk looks like a well-done Photoshop mashup. But remarkably, Chris placed the action figure on a live chipmunk who hangs out in his backyard. He convinced the chipmunk he named Billy, not by use of a simple Jedi mind trick, but with almonds!“)

so then i contacted mr. mcveigh and asked if it would be ok with him for us to feature his work on our blog, and he wrote:

Yes, please feel free to spotlight my photos!

splendid! so with his approval, i present to you some of my favourite chipmunk vs. starwars photos courtesy of chris mcveigh….

chris mcveigh, halifax

chris mcveigh, halifax

check out this wonderful video that shows just how incredible it is that chris is able to capture such crisp and hilariously timed shots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerpigsetups/3678787308/

chris mcveigh, halifax

chris mcveigh, halifax

i like to imagine that the storm trooper is saying “steady…steady….prepare yourself for battle, chippie”

chris mcveigh, halifax

chris mcveigh, halifax

ok. i think *THIS* is officially my favourite! yes, i admit, that first image of chewie feeding the chipmunk is fantastic, but this one gets me giggling every time! i ADORE the look of horror on that puffy chipmunk face! being caught in the act SUCKS! and the thought of being captured by this menacing ewok with an obvious bone to pick must be simply terrifying…

i am soSOso delighted that i found these photographs and learned of another great canadian talent. the gerbilize gals *both* wish chris MUCH continued success with his clever and creative photography!

it’s been a little while since we gerbilize gals have posted anything ourselves, so here you go. thanks for helping our little blog to gain momentum. we appreciate all of our loyal lovelies 🙂

G aining

E nergy

R apidly

B onding

I nterested

L ike-minded

I ndividuals

Z ealously

E verywhere!

tracey - glasgow, scotland

tracey - glasgow, scotland

this darling little doodle comes to us all the way from a reader in the uk!!!  the lovely lady behind this pastel pencil drawing is tracey, and she writes a wonderful (and colourful!) craft blog with lots of pictures and links and information about all sorts of art projects and techniques, so i really think that you should go check it out at:  http://craftytrekky.blogspot.com

tracey’s email to us read as such:

Hello Gerbilize,

I thought you might appreciate my guinea pig pastel doodle.

Good luck with your rodenty-quest 😉

Tracey

our response is a unanimous “YES! we *DO* appreciate your guinea pig pastel doodle, tracey!”

i mean really…..how could we not?

every time i look at it i’m struck by the pretty pink nose and big round bottom, which makes me think that this is one of those slow crawling, hip swaying, surveying the room before she settles on a location kinda guinea pig gals. i’ll bet that every guy in the place is just hypnotized and mesmerized by the way her hair catches the light and shines with such intensity that they are immediately blinded with desire. all those other guinea pig ladies should look out, cuz this one’s coming to snag away their man without even trying…….

we got this in our email a little while back and have been too busy to post it, so we apologize for the delay.

mr. tooty nolan wrote us a lovely little message and included another submission of his radical rodent ‘ritings! and this one includes some juicy hints of hamster humping, lol!

this piece of fiction is actually quite lengthy, so we’ve only included an excerpt here. but if you like what you read, then please scurry over to his blog and check out his other great work! http://tooty1701.wordpress.com

Hello again girls. I felt a bit mean about sending you a work of fact rather than a work of fiction earlier, which isn’t what you asked for originally. So to make amends please accept this little tale – entirely fictional I assure you – from the third volume of The Horatio Horseblanket Chronicles, and chosen at random, entitled Return to the Year Blob.

Chapter Twelve: Return To The Year Blob

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Once outside he immediately encountered the dean , Ruggy Toadfellow, and the school nurse, Honey Bucket, as they made their way along the corridor toward, what could only be, the stationery store. It was late, and Horatio couldn’t think of one good reason why either of them should be searching out envelopes at this time of night. There were some social skills that Horatio was yet to master completely: The abrupt verbalization of his thoughts was one of them… “What are you two up to?” He enquired, stepping before them and thwarting their forward progress. For a moment Ruggy was flustered, “Why, isn’t it obvious, young fellow me lad?” He blustered. To Horatio nothing was obvious; certainly not the actions of his buck-toothed overseers. He wished that he could have responded with a witty quip: Instead he said, “No.” with a quizzical, and perhaps insolent, lilt. Then he noticed that Honey carried a huge basket of pies and bottles of lemonade. “What are they for? Are you gonna have a party?” He asked. Ruggy realized, even if Horatio didn’t, that his plan had all the opacity of The Great Hall’s stained glass window. So, with a deep sigh, he said… “I’ve just come off the phone with the weather hamsters. These inclement conditions are bound to stick around for at least another month. By then we’ll be in a mini ice age, and millions will die. Honey and I have decided to sit it out in the stationery store, then attempt to rebuild the population of Hamster Britain by combining our DNA in the most natural manner we could think of…” For a moment Horatio stood in absolute silence. He was not stunned. He wasn’t even frightened. He was simply in awe of Honey Bucket: He’d seen Ruggy in the showers entirely by accident one summer’s evening, so he knew what she was in for. He sent up a quick, silent prayer to the Saint of All Hamsters for her physical well-being and the elasticity of certain parts. “Well good luck.” he said, trying to smile, but instead grimacing so badly that Honey had second thoughts about surviving, and almost opted for euthanasia then and there, “But what are the rest of us to do? We can’t go outside – for fear of frostbite and resentment from some of the poorer villagers who have neither a roof over their head, nor a pot to piss in. Also the doors to the kitchen are locked.” Ruggy had to make a quick decision. He looked down at the vast quantity of pies, made a quick calculation, multiplied it by two, and said, “Here you are,” and handed Horatio the keys to the kitchen. Then, as he and Honey scurried away into the staccato shadows thrown by the single, stuttering oil lamp, he added, “Find the prettiest girl who’ll have you, and finagle yourself a warm hideaway. From now on it’s every hamster for himself.” This last line set Horatio to thinking: If he was to return to the Boys dorm, and inform the others, it would probably cause great friction amongst them. He’d read the literary masterpiece ‘Prince of the Woodlice’, so he knew how situations could quickly spiral out of control, and usually resulted in the biggest bullies ultimately ruling the roost. He thought of Lewd Junior and his bunch of would-be hooligans: They envied him terribly; No doubt they would shave his scrotum, pin him to the wall of The Great Hall as their prize exhibit, and throw things at him. He shook his head in an attempt to clear it of such ghastly visions. No, the other boys would have to figure out how to survive the mini ice-age by themselves: Even poor Algy. What he needed was a warm hideaway and a good female with wide, pup-bearing hips, and a natural predilection to multiplying exponentially. Lys Dexia might have been the obvious candidate – except that she’d vowed never to have children, and was far too argumentative and flighty. She might be perfect for a roll in a shallow  roadside ditch; but as a permanent partner she was pure poison. Colleen Slapper would have been his natural choice, since she was perfect in every way; was betrothed to him when he came of age; and he loved her dearly. But she was probably in Chunderland right now – fighting beached prawns, and warding off ice floes. That left…Who did that leave? He hadn’t really got to know many of the female hamsters of Saint Dunces: They were all too dull and insipid; and none of them was the least interested in either go-kart racing, foldaway scooter motocross, or poo-jumping. That left only one: The strange foreign girl who nobody spoke to because she was foreign. “I wonder…” He said to himself.

“Vouz wondare what?” Came a strangely accented feminine voice from the darkness.

Tooty Nolan’s ‘The Horatio Horseblanket Chronicles’ ©

Created & Written by Paul Trevor Nolan

so i found this in our email today and just had a huge giggle upon first viewing, and then proceeded to watch it at least five more times. it was sent to us by our friend liz (in burlington), and she wrote:

Unfortunately I can’t take the credit for creating this, but I thought it fit the criteria for your website

love it!

and it totally does fit our criteria liz, so thanks for sending it in! 🙂

PLUS you just earned yourself the honour of creating a new category for chipmunk submissions!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw