Collecting Cabbage Patch Kids (even if you have spent ONE MILLION DOLLARS on the venture, as TLC mentions) seems like the best sort of weird hobby, since it's an entirely harmless venture, but this video is still a little disconcerting. Not as disturbing as an episode of Hoarders, but still, when the guy is talking as Kevin, the Cabbage Patch Kid? I actually shuddered.

[The Hairpin]

Something I did not know until today: there are hundreds of YouTube videos of planes landing at the airport in St. Maarten's. Watch the above video (and if you're like me, you'll end up watching five or six more of the like) and you'll see why.

If you were planning on visiting local art/fun collective Powhaus' website today, you will likely encounter the image above, which will likely be somewhat confusing to you, as they are not a anti-Israel organization. Turns out the group's site was hacked over the weekend, and Powhaus' spokesperson Kitty Katt McKinley assured me via Facebook that their alien associate Kitty Quasar is on duty "promising to retaliate against the terrorists."

However, it should be noted that Powhaus do have an event coming up on Feb. 11th, as part of the Rialto's gem show festivities. The first in a series of promotional videos for GEM is below:

If you're not busy August 12-19 of this year, you might want to consider spending a week on a cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea with Kate Gosselin. No, seriously, stop laughing. There are apparently people who think this would be a good way to spend their time. Here's some of what you can expect on board the Allure of the Seas:

Meet Kate Gosselin at our private welcome cocktail party
A commemorative personalized gift from Kate (one per family)
Capture your memories onboard with a personal photo with Kate Gosselin
Join Kate for a private BBQ on deck with a fabulous band
Join Kate for a morning brunch
Fun fun family games with Kate and staff
Charity dinner with Kate (optional)
Got questions for Kate? Attend her Q & A session
Check out Kate's latest book and bring it onboard for a book signing
Doesn't Kate always have the best ideas! Learn a new craft from the professional herself
Let's explore! Shore excursion with Kate
Let's talk about our fabulous cruise experience! Private group farewell dinner

In other news, Jon Gosselin will be leading a bus excursion to an Ed Hardy factory outlet store, with a stop at one of the best Burger Kings in Pennsylvania.

• Illustration Ryn Gargulinski
• One rendition of a Chupacabra

The coyote-like critter has enjoyed sightings throughout the 1980s in South America, spent a bulk of the 1990s in Mexico and has been currently roaming through parts of the Southwestern United States.

Carcasses thought to be Chupacabras have actually been DNA tested after they were brought to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The results only proved the dead things were “some type of coyote,” although their snout and back legs exceeded the length of those found on a coyote. They also reportedly had large fangs jutting up from their bottom jaws.

The fangs surely helped give them their name, which translates from the Spanish as “goat sucker.” In addition to sucking goat blood, they are also known to attack small livestock like chicken and ducks and larger animals like cattle and horses but have never gone for a human.

There's not really been much to look at when driving the lonely stretch of Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix, unless you're like me and your eyes are always drawn to the LED screens that show the difference in price between paying cash and credit for diesel gas at truck stops.

But then came the M Passion Adult Boutique, the best reason to slide off I-10 at Picacho Peak since ... well, ever!

Housed in a renovated store front and tucked between the abandoned Nickerson Farms Restaurant and — I can't make this stuff up — the Arizona Nut House on the west side of the interchange, M Passion opened on Dec. 15, according to the store employee who anxiously greeted my wife and I when we visited on a recent drive home.

The store itself is similar to pretty much any standard adult boutique with its array of clothing, lubes, lotions, appendages, orifices and a video library for all manner of fetishes. Only its location makes it stand out, that and the bright pink exterior of the building, not to mention the billboard that first drew our attention a few miles to the north on I-10.

According to its Web site, M Passion is mostly an online retailer, though it boasts a "showroom" in a mall on Toledo, Ohio.

There's no mention of the Picacho store on its Web site, which includes the statement that it is "MPowering Romance and Sexual Well-Being."

Needless to say, for this store to survive it's going to have to hope it can somehow turn novelty drive-up traffic into repeat customers. After all, isn't a waterproof Vibrating Jackrabbit and some delay creme just as alluring a road trip purchase as a Blizzard or some scratch-off tickets?

I'm not sure why this happened, but it did.

[The Awl]

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Not that I'm in the market, but looking at this guy's house, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want anything to do with his gene pool.

Still, this is America, right? The FDA wants to tell our kids they can't dream of opening their own not-for-profit one man sperm bank someday? I miss freedom.

It would appear the Burger King by my house no longer sells Chicken Fries, so I have no reason to go there, but if I could be promised unicorns and DJ's spinning giant hamburgers as records like they apparently have at the Russian locations, I could probably be convinced to stop by.

[Eater]

If you have any clothes that aren't orange in hue, throw them away! According to Pantone, the people who decide the colors, Tangerine Tango is the color of the year for 2012:

Tangerine Tango, a spirited reddish orange, continues to provide the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward.

“Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.”