For the love of Bunnies!

In honor of Easter, I thought a post about Bunnies was appropriate. If this makes sense to you, you may have known me in grad school. If you think I'm crazy.... well just stay with me for a minute. I might still sound crazy, but it might at least make some sense.

Note that the word "Bunnies" is capitalized. It is in fact two-fold in this post. Let me start with a story. Back in 2002, there was a show on Fox called "Greg the Bunny". The show starred Seth Green and Sarah Silverman. Great show. Sadly, it only lasted for about one season. I have no idea why. What spells HIT SHOW better than politically incorrect fabricated Americans? Here's Greg:

Okay, next. My sister is shopping for a birthday present for me. She's quite the shopper. As my grandfather would say, she has a black belt in shopping. She always finds amazing presents. I don't remember what else I got from her that year, but the best gift was a game called "Killer Bunnies". What is Killer Bunnies you ask? Gee, I'm glad you asked! It's a card game. But it is so much more than a card game. It's technical name is "Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot". Please don't confuse Killer Bunnies with its kid-friendly counter part, Kinder Bunnies. In Killer Bunnies, your bunny can and will be impaled by a stray lawn dart, squashed in a Fiat, or blown up by a grenade. Don't even get me started on the Anti Matter Raisins and Quite Irascible Diffractable Cheese Balls. You can start with just two decks. Blue and yellow. But if you're any kind of Killer Bunnies fan, you'll quickly acquire all 11 decks. Yes 11. You can also buy Kinder Bunnies and mix it with Killer Bunnies.

We thought the game may look a little lame. So we didn't play it for a while. Until one night in our apartment in Pittsburgh, my roommate Lacey, my then-fiance Dan and I were stuck without power. We hung a flashlight from the ceiling and opened the box. We added decks and Bunny addicts. It's impossible to not get addicted. In fact, when we moved recently, we made friends with another couple, Jeremy and Heather. They come over at least once a month and play Bunnies. They brought us a present the other night when they came to play. 

You can see some of the cards from the game. The present was bunny cups! These are not Kinder Bunny cups! There's Jim Beam on the rocks in the blue one and Captain and Coke in the pink one. And yes, we used the sweet straws that came with them!

It all started with a cancelled TV show.