Introducing Mr. Van Cleef!
I’d like to take this time to introduce the addition to our home, Mr. Van Cleef, the Jackalope.
I had been wanting one of these mythic creatures for sometime now, and Patrick was lucky enough to score one on Ebay for us. I want him to live in a room full of black velvet and other wonderfully kitschy Mexican and western items. One day…
Mr. Van Cleef’s really cute! Traveling the Southwest as a child, I wanted so badly to believe these jackalopes were real. I think I halfway convinced myself that they were. When I was around ten years old and bumming around the ranch where I rode horses, I found an abandoned jackrabbit baby whose mother had been killed by a barn cat. Now I had myself a live jackalope…well, sans horns. But I’ll bet I was the only kid with a pet jackrabbit in my town. Good memories.