I just read Extreme Craft’s gushing post on the great, insane Amy Sedaris and her upcoming book on entertaining I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence (Can’t wait! Can’t wait!) which lead me to watch her 2001 appearance on Conan O’Brien in which she shows off her bizarre craft abilities to Martha Stewart. Inspired, I couldn’t’ help but think about the other side of normal…yes, that which is weird – and the odd products we come in contact with every day.

You know, it’s not all just fashion and furniture on ThisNext. Did you see that someone has recommended a penis cozy?

Beyond the amazing surplus of interior design, health, and beauty discoveries on ThisNext.com lay quite a few items that are a little…odd.

And we love it!

Di Overton has quite a few odd ducks in her recommendations. First, for the golf afficianodo, there is the Potty Putter, a handy little golf green that fits around the toilet for someone who wants to practice their swing while they’re…well you know.

I’m loving this Pillow Book, which is exactly what it sounds like. A pillow that looks exactly like a book – so you can pass out at your desk and people will think you’ve just been working super hard. Ha!

To relieve stress, and get a little martian love, we’re all loving the bizarre Martian Popping Toy recommended by skibblymook (squeeze the weird rubber martian and it’s ears pop out)– who’s picks have me in stitches. How can you not find a place in your home for a Big Maoi Tissue Dispenser (see top picture)? Don’t answer that, we’re a family show here at ThisNext. Anyway, maybe you’ll be convinced after you read how the guys at IWantOneOfThose.com describe their find:

How the mighty have fallen, and in doing so had us rolling on the floor laughing our heads off. Tissue Box holders are traditionally ghastly, designed, it would appear, by people with the aesthetic sensibilities of a Halibut. We would normally condone the ritual incineration of the things, but this one is quite definitely a wonder of the world.

A generation ahead of our ever popular Tikki Tissue dispenser, the mighty Big Maoi is a monument to silliness. Standing a noble 34cm high, and hewn from the rocks of Easter Island by devoted indigenous tribes (well, moulded from hefty resin at any rate), this totemic tissue dispenser is of course ludicrous, but then why else would we have tracked it down for you? Turn your desk into a Rapanuiu landscape - it’s high time tissue dispensers came in from the cold (boom, boom).

I’m not sure what’s funnier and more insulting; the Big Maoi or the Dog End Towel Holder found by BIGperk.

For those bored and uninspired with your basic hot dog presentation, the Octodog is here to heal all your woes. Just like Deborah says, “You will never eat hot dogs the same way again.” It slices the dog into eight squishy legs so that it look like an octopus. Would this be a plus or a minus for kids who are picky eaters? Regardless, it’s hysterical.

If you’re in a gift giving funk, one of our most popular odd items is nothing. As ironic as it is funny, you can actually give the gift of nothing to the person who has everything. As Jessica Pacetti states, “Both my dad and my husband always say that they want nothing. Well, that’s what they’re getting this year.”

Now why didn’t I think of that?