Yes. Yes, you do. Tamagotchi has taken it to the next level with the new Tuttuki Bako, a Chinese finger trap that has been electrified with Japanese craziness. Apparently, if you stick your finger into the alloted hole, you’ll be rewarded with interactive goodness with a virtual character (poking it, tickling it, whatever it wants). And, it still follows that great Tamagotchi principle - As demanding to take care of as a real pet, but easier to throw away.

Thanks to Nadege for bringing this to our attentions!

Dam Fine Tours shirts are now available at keempoo store. Of course, if you’re ever in Amsterdam you can always take a “dam fine tour” for yourself!

Garden Pops,(available in both regular and all-new “Gary-size”), as well as Petit-Pierre shirts are for sale at the all-new keempoo store.

Although the news of the US housing crisis increases on a daily basis, it’s nice to know that given the opportunity some of us can still look at the housing market with the same kind of logic we have always had. Take this property my brother found along Sunset Junction. A 9-bedroom house for $24,000:

As soon as he saw it, he gave me a call:

Marc: “What do you think is wrong with it?”

Kim: “I bet it’s haunted.”

Marc: “I know right? That’s what I thought.”

But it got us thinking - What is the potential market for the undead? Let’s face it, even if housing prices are going down, they still aren’t low enough for any decent person to get a loan for it. With a haunted house, you can discount and disclose your spirits all at the same time.

• SAVE ON UTITILIES - Gas prices getting you down? Say good-bye to those gruelling nights cooking over the stove because now you can cook on your countertops with power. Poltergeist Power. And there’s no need to change all your bulbs to those ugly, energy-saving kind just to pinch a few pennies. Lights go on and off, but the meter doesn’t even measure them!

• SAVE ON AC - No need to crank up your electric bill during those hot, LA summers. Each room can drop to mind-bogglingly low temperatures.

• GREAT FOR KIDS! - Everyday is an adventure when digging in the backyard. You never know what you’re going to find! Shy, introverted kids can easily make friends with a number of passed-on inhabitants and Indian spirit animals.

It’s great for Halloween parties, renters, and even pets (as long as you don’t mind them howling at the moon from time to time). Heck, it could probably make money when programs like Discovery’s “A Haunting” and “Celebrity Paranormal Project” comes around knocking. Outside of obvious inconveniences, this could be the way for us young folk to become first-time home-owners. So say good-bye to your housing crisis blues, and say hello to the blood on the walls of your BRAND NEW HOME!