It may officially be summer, but spring is lingering (in the form of favas, English peas, garbanzos and strawberries) at the Hollywood Farmers' Market. Sure I saw some melons and sweet, ripe pluots, but it was the holdovers from spring that caught my attention at yesterday's Hollywood Farmers' Market.
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What I think while watching this video of a hippo eating a watermelon: "Whoaaa. Awesome. One bite and it's just...
totally destroyed." What a watermelon thinks while watching this video: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, WHAT THE, NOOOOO [weeps],
OH GOD."
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Watermelons have been tortured by humans for as long as humans realized watermelons are fun to blow up, smash, and carve. (I'm guessing it's been a long time.) But recently, watermelons got their revenge. Here's the story, from a watermelon.
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Nothing makes me quite as giddy as super sweet, run-down-your-arm-cuz-it's-so-freakishly-juicy watermelon flesh. The thought alone makes me want a napkin. So as watermelon season draws to a close, let's pay homage to a favorite summer treat. So tell me, how much do you really know about watermelons?
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Why is this baby in a watermelon? To provide the world with 35 seconds of entertainment.
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Didn't I just post a video featuring
anthropomorphic watermelons? Um...yeah. But here's another. Because anthropomorphic watermelons brighten
the hell out of my day.
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Few things warm my heart quite as much as watching a flock of bug-eyed watermelons deliriously frolic and dance in a park to a happy tune.
These are the happiest watermelons in the history of all watermelons.
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It's the skill you didn't know you were missing: smoothly eating across a watermelon slice with a snowboarder painted on your face so it looks like the snowboarder is using the watermelon as a half-pipe....
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From Tatsuro Kiuchi on Flickr It's hard to not want to sit back with a giant wedge of watermelon after looking at On the Beach by artist Tatsuro Kiuchi. [via Personism]...
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Pumpkin carving? So three months ago. Get with the program. All the cool kids have moved on to melons now. The Melounovy Festival in the Czech Republic seems to be ground zero for the artform. Get your knives sharpened. Preliminaries will be held July 31 and August 1. [via Boing Boing]...
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