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Gifts For The Weird Friend
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items i am the weird friend, and i approve these gifts. some are quirky, some absurd, some are even useful! and yes, there's a rubber chicken.
Sections
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Odd Books
Strange Art
Weird Objects
Unusual Food
Odd Books
Will it make The Weird Friend laugh +/ think +/ question the nature and reality of their existence?
Randall Munroe is the mind behind xkcd, which has been explaining Science, Mathematics, and language in accessible, captivating, and often sarcastic ways for just shy of 20 years. And he doesn't seem like an a**hole.
Randall Munroe 4 Book Collection Set
Weird friends often like facts. This book puts the world into proportion in interesting and downright terrifying ways.
The Scale of Things: Proportions & Facts
I have this stunning book that is both art and Science. Looking at these illustrations is a window into just how strange, inexplicable, and marvelous our world is. It is lso an honour to hold someone's life's work in your hands.
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel
Chuck Tingle has filled the world with Dada-esque erotica, and I'm sure this game runs along the same rails.
The Tingleverse: Chuck Tingle RPG
Notoriously confounding, enthrallingly labyrinthine, a puzzle made of words manipulated to form pictures. Assuming your Weird Friend doesn't already own this, it's a pretty safe bet.
House of Leaves: Remastered Full-Color
The true meaning of friendship is giving your Weird Friend a source of things with which to make things awkward. And weird. And weirdly awkward.
Random Illustrated Facts: Curious & Weird
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The King of Weird himself, analyzed to reveal the true depths and breadths of his peculiar version of "oddball".
The Weird Accordion to Al: Every Album Analyzed
For The Weird Friend who has more of an esoteric bent, a book on the history of alchemy, hermeticism, cabalists and all the other denominations of Mystic trying to grow life in a flask.
The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy & Mysticism
A funny and irreverant look at Medieval art and the culture it depicts, complete with quizzes and flowcharts to help you navigate your own life as a weird medieval guy.
Weird Medieval Guys: Live, Laugh, Love
Does your Weird Friend have a sense of humour that got off 2 stops past "Absurd" and is fully in "Bizarre" territory? Congratulations! Robert Rankin is their new favourite author.
The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag: Book 2
Your Weird Friend will be touched by this clear sign of how much they mean to you. And probably inspired to test the knowledge.
Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Village
Strange Art
Will they be able to look at it for hours - literally - without getting bored?
The Ultimate Alphabet is like I Spy and Where's Waldo combined, on steroids. Each letter's page is filled with hundreds of objects to hunt for, and if you're stuck, this edition comes with the guidebook. Fascinating, frustrating, astounding and defin...
The Ultimate Alphabet - Mike Wilks
Filled with impossible creatures, impossible plants, impossible worlds, and impossible impossibilities, the Codex Seraphinianus is beautiful and disturbing by turns, forcing you to question, urging you to go deeper, as all good art should. Peak Weird...
Codex Seraphinianus: 40th Anniversary - Luigi Serafini
A prank? The scribblings of a drunkard? Or a genuine work of Western occultism? Nobody really knows but the Voynich Manuscript will provide hours of entertainment for your Weird Friend. Just be aware that you'll be hearing about it.
The Voynich Manuscript - The World's Most Mysterious and Esoteric Codex
If your Weird Friend isn't already familiar with the eerie, highly-detailed work of Harry Clarke (illustration and gorgeous stained glass), they'll love being introduced to it.
Harry Clarke Illustration Showcase
For The Weird Friend who is fascinted by the beautiful pain of human existence : Egon Schiele's work, with its haggard, sharply-angled figures was at one time considered obscene and the work of a degenerate - largely because he made ugly art. Honest,...
Egon Schiele: The Paintings
For The Weird Friend who likes their art to be an out-of-mind experience : Marc Chagall painted richly-coloured, vibrant, dynamic scenes that danced across the line between dream and visionary experience. Filled with symbols, his work is also a tribu...
Marc Chagall, 1887-1985: Painting As Poetry
Some of this art is well known, some unknown, but all have their own manic pixie dream girl vibe.
The Madman's Gallery: Strange Art Curiosities
With a vaguely disturbing title that delivers, your Weird Friend will have hours of fun using the wrong colours and generally making things worse. We call this "enrichment".
Show Me Your Guts! An Artistic & Anatomical Coloring Book for Adults
Weird Objects
Will it make them go quiet with wonder +/ laugh til they're on the floor +/ go sit by themselves immediately so they can play with their new toy?
The reviews for this tiny ecosphere are incredible. Some people have shrimp still living after 20 years! With this gift, you get to play mad scientist and god at the same time. Mad Cackling approved.
Ecosphere Small Sphere
Fish flops. I've been seeing these everywhere and I giggle a little more each time. They are ridiculous, which is what makes them so magical. Lots of colours to choose from.
Coddies Fish Flip Flops | Unisex Bass Slides
Be a real friend and get two - one for each hand so your weird friend can play dueling goats, as they laugh themselves to tears. Bonus points for being incomprehensible +/ irritating to other people.
The Screaming Goat
I hate that I find these so amusing (I don't even wear Crocs), but they're just such a kick in the balls to that certain kind of person who puts these on their truck. Dali would smirk, I think.
Croc Nuts
When I was a kid I had a Shmuzzle Puzzle (ears of corn) where all the pieces where the same shape (Escher's lizard tessellation). This seems like the “send yourself to a locked ward” version, but you'll have so much fun getting there! (I'm eyeing the...
The Clearly Impossible Puzzle
Bessie will keep you company in the bathroom. Bessie will take up all the space uder the bed so the monsters have to go somewhere else. Bessie will jump out of cupboards and scare your mom. You've got a friend in Bessie.
37" Long Inflatable Cow Toy
I don't feel so good... BLEUURRRRGRGHHH *lather rinse repeat* Hours of fun - I guarantee it.
4-Pack Yellow Round Vomit Sucking Lazy Egg Yolk
Some species of Weird Friend enjoy making miniatures. It combines art with craft and just the right amount of frustration to keep them interested. Book nooks are a great choice because they're small, and are designed to sit on a bookshelf, so they ha...
Book Nook Kit
An absolute LEGENDARY throwback. Games on your phone are so now, why not try a retro experience with twice the emotional investment? The question remains: how long will it live this time?
Tamagotchi Original - Red Glitter
Fred is a delight! And so polite. Who wouldn't want to invite him round for tea?
Fred the Blue Whale Tea Infuser
Nothing wrong with causing a little record scratch in the conversation. Somebody's got to keep the status from quo-ing. It's a service The Weird Friend provides free of charge.
I Came, I Saw, I made it Awkward Embroidery Art Hoop
Most people don't know that googly eyes are closely related to 60 foot Halloween skeletons. These gentle creatures will bring laughter and this face 😑 to any home, and especially your Weird Friend, as they think up new places to put them.
7 Inch Googly Eyes Pack of 2 Self Adhesive
You know what? Needs more googly eyes. The Weird Friend will love these ridiculou and ridiculously funny (and probably ridiculously comfortable) Gary the Snail slippers.
Winter Plush Cartoon Snail Slippers Women
The perfect blend of disturbing and irreverent, and 100% a talking piece!
Lip Sculpture Wall Art Pastel Pink Decor / Eclectic Mouth Art Funky Eccentric Decor / Wall Hanging Lips
This toast cushion is not impressed by having your butt on it. Your Weird Friend will derive sick joy from this, alternating with feeling bad about it.
Toast Seat Cushion, Kawaii Food Plush Pillow
What's better than one rubber chicken? Sixteen rubber chickens. There are mini ones that glow in the dark and come in a 50-pack. Jesus take the wheel..
16 Pack Squeaky Rubber Chicken Toys
Unusual Food
Will this edible whatever make their eyes light up with the challenge +/ whimsy of it?
For the Weirdo who likes to experiment in the kitchen, but also keep it real.
Snoop Dogg's From Crook to Cook & Goon with the Spoon | Danny Trejo's Trejo's Tacos & Trejo's Cantina
“You shoudn't eat that” isn't a phrase The Weird Friend understands. This sounds amazing! * Rich, Nutty Base: Premium roasted peanuts provide a creamy foundation. * Kick of Heat: Korean red pepper, ginger, and cayenne add a gradual (or intense!) leve...
The Kick You Crave! Reid's Gourmet Spicy Peanut Butter
Because everything gains +20 fun and +50 why?? points when you add a little glitter. Recommended use: cereal, toast, egg salad, grilled cheese sandwiches.
Fancy Sprinkles NYE Moonstone Edible Glitter
You know when the waiter comes round to grate parmesan cheese on your pasta? This is the Japanese edition! Sharpening an umami pencil over your food is way more entertaining though, and the packaging is brill!
Duo Umami - Black Garlic & Miso (Other Flavours Available)
Cookies are a blank slate, just waiting for someone to do something horrendous to them. Your Weird Friend is that someone.
Weird Cookies Cookbook: 100 Unusual and Adventurous Cookie Recipes - Digital Download
If your Weird Friend has never eaten honeycomb before, the taste and texture experience is sure to have them coming back for more! (This shop offers different natural flavours of honey)
Pure Natural Honeycomb Filled with Raw Honey
Salt infused with different flavours - some quite unexpected - with magnetic lids so they stick to the fridge AND the hexagonal shape means they all fit together in a pleasing beehibe pattern.
INFUSED SALTS | 7 Gourmet Infused Salts in Magnetic Jars
This is definitely a unique tea-drinking experience, from downing it like a shot, to the gemstones that leach who knows what (and magick) into the water. It feels like luxe Science, with just a hint of danger.
Crystal Glass Tea Infuser Bottle - Rose Gold - Rose Quartz
I would drink this (at least it's made with cane sugar). My sense of curiosity often outweighs my sense of self preservation. Get your Weird Friend some weirdly-flavoured pop.
Grass Flavored Soda Pop