This morning on the way in to the office I heard something on NPR that was pretty funny (apparently it's old news, but it's new news to me). It's was an interview with one of the members of Kasper Hauser comedy troupe about their product SkyMaul, a parody of the typical SkyMall catalog found on airlines.

The parody catalog contains a ton of completely ridiculous yet hilarious items such as the Stroller Mower, which allows you to take your kid for a walk as you mow your lawn, and my favorite, a Hybrid logo magnet you can attach to your gas-guzzling H2 to ease your guilty conscious. While you can buy the actual catalog, you can't buy any of these items. Too bad.

In a typical condescending, comedic manner, the real joke is not on the products themselves (though they are designed to look just as useless as the actual SkyMall products), but the air-traveler who might purchase them. For instance this item, the Cat's In The Cradle Flask which has inscribed -- upside-down so you can read it while you tip one back -- "When you comin' home, Dad, I don't know when."

I'll try to find a link to the actual interview once NPR puts it online, but it's really just complimentary. The catalog -- and its jab at the consumerist culture -- stands on its own.