This is so freakishly weird: Several artists thought it would be a smart idea to tattoo pigs for a publicity stunt for farms. PIG ADVERTISING…

Even more tats here. What’s going on?!?!!

Street graffiti artist Slinkachu is pimping snails rides all over London. He uses nontoxic paint to make the wild snails shells look fly. He frees them to roam around again after painting them. AWE they’re so much cuter now!

His project is titled “Inner City Snail - A Slow-Moving Street Art Project.”

Breath easy internet, I have returned to my blogging post. Over the last week and a half I’ve been journeying up the Pacific Coast with Bear Hunter . As it turns out, when I try and write on my laptop while in the van I start to puke all over my band mates — hence, my absence from Synthesis Blog. Over the next few days I will be recounting my harrowing journey (in between fascinating posts about pop stars getting busted for drugs, children with weird growths on their bodies and general paranoid-paranormal fodder). Get ready, dear readers. Get your asses ready.

… and the award for this year “best sign (in a cab) goes too: