[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-penchant-for-pants-ant":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pantsant2-6ebb23822e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nFollowing a riveting Ebay battle, my gleaming copy of \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pants_Ant\">\u003Ci>The Pants Ant Trouser Hour!\u003C/i>\u003C/a> by Woodrow Phoenix & Ian Carney arrived in the post. I did a Google search on Pants Ant and came up with this fab photo on \u003Ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltmistress/sets/72157602995855197/\">Flickr\u003C/a>. Pants Ant is REAL! He is a very small ant driving a very large set of trousers, and saving the town of Gaberdine, Pantsylvania, from pants peril.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pantsant1-4ea70f72ca.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSo I took the comic to my favourite sofa in Deptford and had a nice cup of tea (because the coffee there is not half as good as the sofa).  It is a very nice sofa, you could look at it for hours.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pantsant3-cd6c045e10.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAw, isn't it fab? That's a little Winston Churchill there, next to the fish.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pantsant4-dfbf48d008.jpg\"> \\r\n\\r\nMy writer friend \u003Ca href=\"http://notesfromtheslushpile.co.uk/\">Candy Gourlay\u003C/a> pointed out this funny article with a guy flipping out about bookstore culture in Singapore. He insists bookshops \u003Ca href=\"http://blogs.straitstimes.com/2009/5/13/read-chill-out-or-take-a-nap\"> should charge a £2 entrance fee to get rid of the riff-raff.\u003C/a> I sympathise when he goes off about people who read stacks of magazines for free and don't put them away, but I think he's confusing a bookshop with a library. I am one of those people who could easily live in a bookshop. I think I spent my whole sophomore year at university studying at a table in Boobs & Noodles.","2009-05-14T15:35:00.000Z","penchant-for-pants-ant",[],"penchant for pants ant",1776628732322]