My dear friend Tiffany snapped this photo of people’s notes to their body parts at the Actual Cafe in Oakland, California. I can’t decide which I like better: “Dear Pancreas, I used to be really mad at you for giving up, but I forgive you now.” or “Dear Lungs, It’s okay to just relax.”
Archive for the ‘People With Guts’ Category
Dear Body…
Posted: Friday, August 27th, 2010Urine My Heart
Posted: Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Will you take this kidney to be your lawfully wedded wife? I do! Rick White and Kelley Agard, both of Iowa, were married on Monday and Kelley’s donating her kidney to Rick — who has polycystic kidney disease — today. What a fabulous bride!
Print Me a Liver
Posted: Monday, August 9th, 2010
So they can print blood vessels now — but how about hearts? It could be coming sooner than you think. Wired magazine has a great photo essay covering company Organo’s fascinating bioprinting business. The printed veins will soon undergo testing in animals, and later, clinical trials in humans. Amazing stuff! Photo by Dave Bullock/Wired.com.
Lungs at Work
Posted: Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Thousands of hearts and minds — and lungs — will be won at the U.S. Transplant Games, which begin tomorrow in Madison, Wisconsin. The games were started by the National Kidney Foundation, but double-lung transplant, bone marrow and heart recipients will compete in sports ranging from badminton to basketball to track and field. More from the Washington Post. {photo Nhat V. Meyer/San Jose Mercury News}
We Heart Comic Con!
Posted: Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
If you’re hitting up Comic Con this weekend, we sure would love to meet you at our booth #621, where we will have plush guts galore, limited-edition treats and more! Stop by for some great deals on tees, toys, pins and other gutsy goods. You can get a sneak peek at some prototypes for new guts pals at the DKE Toys booth, where they’ve got samples of bigger and better guts (pictured) on display — plus an incredible art scavenger hunt starting noon Thursday. Stop by and say hello! Here’s a shortlist of some of our favorite booths:
STORES WE LIKE
cardboard spaceship 4534
giant robot 1729 1731
kidrobot 4529 4531
munky king 4539
strangeco 4629 4728
SPECIAL FRIENDS
chronicle books 1506 1508
dke toys 4732 4734
CUTE STUFF
bored inc 609
conduct happiness 4830
fat rabbit farms 4521
giant microbes 735
spicy brown 4832
STUFF WE LIKE
adult swim 3351
max brooks 4403
kinokuniya bookstores 5549 5550
sharpie/prismacolor 5102
upper playground 4631
Kick Cancer in the Balls
Posted: Friday, July 9th, 2010
We’re working with the Jailhouse Saloon outside Houston, Texas, to raise money for Matthew Gallagher, who is 21 years old and has stage 3 testicular cancer. His insurance is crapping out on him, so his friends are getting together to raise money to help cover the aggressive treatment he needs to beat the cancer, which has spread to the rest of his body. We’re talking 8 hours of chemo a day. The photo is of his niece, who loves her Uncle Matt, and is wearing one of the I Heart Guts fundraising tees that reads “Don’t Let Cancer Mess With Your Testis” on the front and “Help Matt Kick Cancer in the Balls” on the back. Our guts are crossed that they make enough moolah to make a dent in his deductible. If you’re in the Houston area July 18, go to the benefit!
Hormonal Circus
Posted: Friday, June 25th, 2010
Dear Thyroid guest blogger Dr. Sara Gottfried wrote a fascinating post about the endocrine madness caused by the hormones released by the adrenals, thyroid and sex glands. “Once I got how all these crazy thyroid, adrenal and sex hormones fit together, much of the thyroid chaos fell away, both for my patients and myself.” Dr. Gottfried writes. Read on for some fascinating lessons on this wild hormonal soup that can wreak havoc on your thyroid and how you can balance your system.
Dancing Testicles
Posted: Friday, June 25th, 2010
The nerds over at Web Soup pulled off the best bean bag chair hack ever by turning them into giant nude dancing testicle costumes to illustrate Chris Hardwick’s song, “Balls Broke the Fall.” Please note the dancing raccoon and dolphin in the background. {thanks to Stori Nagel for the link!}
Tastes Like Deer
Posted: Thursday, June 24th, 2010
According to the French jailbird who ate his cellmate’s lungs — the old windbags don’t taste like chicken. “What is terrible is that it (the lung) was good,” Nicolas Cocaign testified in court. “It has the taste of venison. It is tender.” After brutally killing his cellmate with a pair of scissors, Cocaign decided to make a lunch of him, ripping out his lung and concluding, after trying some raw lung, that it might taste better fried with onions. What a gourmand. Cocaign got 30 more years in the slammer for his nasty lunch.
Lungs and Heart
Posted: Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Not only did Florence & The Machine name their most recent album “Lungs,” they also found their way into our hearts with this awesome new version of their song “You’ve Got the Love,” remixed by The xx. Do yourself a favor and download it.
