Posted 11:02 AM by sport

Ah. A different post. Let's leave behind the agony of life for a moment and look at something ridiculous. As you know, I have this thing for BERRIE JIGGLERS. Been collecting them for years. Now you see that guy up there? Some guy just bought him on eBay for $2,225.00. Yes; you read that correctly.

< Right there's an old trade ad from the '60s. This was when my fetish started, and this was when these things sold for a buck or two. Who could have dreamed? Now, in my latter-day jiggler collecting phase, I was considered crazy (by myself as well) for spending, say 50 bucks for a jiggler.

Crazy like a slimy, rubbery fox!

I have some jigglers that these obviously wealthy jiggler collectors don't even know about! Not that I care about all this; I ain't aiming to sell or show off. I'm just damn lucky I got onto this thing when I did, or I'd be watching all these rich weirdos win every auction, longing for the simple, wiggly, oily bliss of it all.

The other thing it proves is my unerringly great taste for the finer things in life.

And just to demonstrate that jigglerphilia has long been a signal trait of hepness and right-on-ity, I note another original-era jiggler sighting.


The Sterile Cuckoo was Liza Minnelli's first big movie role, back in '69. In it, she and costar Wendell Burton meander through First Love's labyrinth of oofty urghthickets. Some of this meandering is done in one of those funky little cars young people drove back then, and clearly visible, hanging from the rear-view, is FRUGGY the frog. I cannot find an image to share, other than this very frustrating back cover collage from the paperback tie-in. The shot of the couple in this car has been bisected by the art dept, removing Fruggy and replacing him with a field of grass. Nevertheless, he was there. I've done my own highly artistic overlay right here, to suggest the relative position of Fruggy re: Minnelli and whats'isname. Look for him when you see the film, which you should, if only to hear the sublime "Come Saturday Morning" sung incessantly.

For those keeping track of other "period" Jiggler appearances, look on YouTube for a b/w TV clip of the band Cream doing their hit "Strange Brew" ...Jack Bruce has KWAZY BOID the buzzard a-jiggling from the neck of his bass. In my personal collection of Serge Gainsbourg clips, there's a scene from some documentary showing the great man laughing and poking at WUVVER the wolf, also dangling from the rear-view. Gainsbourg. Bruce. Minnelli. 'Nuff said!!!!

But Jay-zuss!? Two thousand, two-hundred motherfuckin' simoleons??