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Post 21377       February 08 '10 at 08:30 PM
By Annalee Newitz from io9:
Two weeks ago, I trudged up a steep San Francisco hill through pouring rain, then went through a strange door into another world. A world full of brightly-colored creatures who live in Neon Monster, a toy store and therapeutic bestiary.

I had come to witness the birth of plush toy Mitch, a one-eyed creature who has lived for a very long time and has become a little neurotic over the years. Things are hard for Mitch because he has no mouth, and yet his constant companion is a creature called Mouth who speaks for him - and frequently lies about what Mitch really wants to say. No wonder Mitch is in therapy with Dr. Darwin Dayglow, a kindly psychotherapist who runs the The Facility where Mitch lives with other creatures in the bestiary.

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