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Down the road from my A-P-T in the L-B-C is a quaint home furnishings and design shop called David Galindo Home. It’s in a renovated craftsman, run by a furniture designer, David Galindo next to my gas station (what I call a ghetto gas station, but just recently got bought by Valero). With a flair for mid-century modern, he offers his own custom designed and built furniture. He also carries a host of household goods, including candles, lighting, books, mirrors, and kitchen wares.

It’s my favorite store– as well as my sister Annie’s, who’s got street cred because she’s an interior designer. Annie says he’s got a great merchandising eye. Yeah, I agree.

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Do you have a lot of gas?

Do your farts smell like dog fart or like the korean bbq you had for dinner?

Does your girlfriend get mad when you trap her in a dutch oven?

Then, you should consider a seat cushion that solves the problem of your stray farts. GasBGon is a flatulence filter seat cushion that claims to both absorb the sound of your fart and the odor. Using carbon filter technology designed by a fart engineer– er, I mean, an air quality and filtration engineer– the cushions have washable covers that come in interesting patterns and with amusing tongue-in-cheek names, such as “musical solo” (because that’s how farts should sound) and another in an animal print, called “silent but deadly.”

These anti-fart cushions have “removable cushion properties to dampen sound and a replaceable activated carbon material to absorb odors.” Blah blah blah, whatever. All I wanna do is does this shizniz work or what.

So I looked on amazon.com to read their oh-so-handy user reviews. And, I freaked out when I saw what I thought was “1 new and 1 used” for sale on their site!!! Who would buy a USED fart cushion?! Anyway, I was a bit relieved– and bummed– to see that I had misread it (it was just “1 new” GasBGon). There were a total of 19 customer reviews with 14 of them giving 5 stars. Christopher Wallace, the third user down, actually boasts as to having crapped on himself (gross) into the cushion without his girlfriend or dog knowing! Hooray for the multifunction GasBGon!

Oh, one last thing:

Malodorous gas is a naturally occurring event, obviously affecting some people more than others.

Why does “malodorous” sound like melodious? Ew.

Rihanna should get this pet umbrella for her Fido-ido-ido-i-i-i.

Palm Springs has its own version of Pinkberry; it’s called Cactusberry.

In a older post where we visited Yogurtland, I posited: Does Mikey like the sour yogurt? Back in April, I had introduced him to PinkBerry for the first time, and he was so overwhelmed by it that he blogged about it here. After the YogurtLand visit however, I concluded that although he didn’t care for the PinkBerry decor (he is a design guy; after all, he is an architect), he did indeed like the sour yogurt.

Two weekends ago, we went to Palm Springs. Yes, we went to Palm Springs in AUGUST in the 117 degree desert heat. It was for a friend’s birthday celebration, so we had a good reason. Anyway, we ran into CactusBerry on our way to lunch in downtown Palm Springs. It was impossible to miss; I mean, even if you were illiterate, you could tell just by the colors and font style of the sign, that this was another sour yogurt joint.Â

Here’s my quick summary (because how many different reviews can one read about this stuff?):

CactusBerry offers 2 types of yogurt: original and passionfruit (which, in my opinion, sounds so much better than that weird green tea one from Pinkberry). There are also less topping choices– no mochi (my favorite!) but plenty of Captain Crunch cereal (weird).

How did it taste? Not bad. It was creamier than PinkBerry and Yogurtland. We had the original with kiwi, blackbery, and strawberry.  The fruit was very sweet (either it was the right season for the fruit or they added sugar to it).

But, what sets CactusBerry apart from its competitors is their eco-conscious approach. Their containers are made from corn, while their spoons are of potato starch.Â

If you ask for a sample, they try to make you use the same sample spoon/cup as the one you’re going to use with your purchase. I really appreciated this, but it seemed cumbersome for the employee to explain to the customer:

He first asked for a sample of the passionfruit. Then she asked, “If you were going to order one, which size would you order?” The customer looked at her, perplexed, like, dude why does it matter. Then, she said, “The reason I ask is because we are a green business, and we try to minimize use of the materials” blah blah blah something like then. Aha, now it made sense.