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PSA: Please don't try to assemble furniture if you're high.

(AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

So two people have decided to take acid, attempt to assemble Ikea furniture, and post the results on YouTube. They're calling this endeavor "Hikea," and we're sure the company is just thrilled to pieces at the publicity. It's not clear what the point here is - That assembling the furniture is so easy you can do it while high? That it's so impossible that you might as well be high? That the only way to assemble furniture together as a couple without killing each other is to be high first? - but anyone who's ever been reduced to profanity and/or tears by badly written assembly instructions might find it compelling in a don't-try-this-at-home kind of way.

Elsewhere on the DIY-With-A-Twist front, we have the story of a Godzilla fan in Japan who built a Godzilla model out of cicada shells. On one hand, we're deeply impressed that anyone would see thousands of giant insect exoskeletons as anything other than a phobia-triggering, nightmare-inducing reason to never, ever leave the house. On the other, we're so grossed out we really can't admire the artistry here. (Fortunately, the Internet is full of less bug-adverse souls who were able to properly rave over the thing.)

Meanwhile, a car dealership in Canada dealt with a less-disturbing invasion of critters when bunnies overran the business after owners of a neighboring farm moved away. Really, if you have to be overrun with something, bunnies aren't the worst thing in the world, though Australia would probably disagree. The kindhearted employees starting rounding up the bunnies and getting them adopted. And we just can't see that happening if the business had been overrun with, say, garter snakes.

From the Happy Animal Stories beat, we have these photos of puppies getting adopted, a video of a cheetah and a boar playing soccer, and a video of golden retriever puppies swimming.

Happy weekend! If you find yourself surrounded by bug shells, you might as well build something with them. We guess.

-- Mary Mooney

mmooney@oregonian.com

503-412-7020; @MaryKnitsPDX