Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Giant Fuzzy Dice
"Bob and Carole Phillips, who sew and stuff dice by the cartload in their rural Burlington home, find them not only lovable but lucrative. To their surprise, the Phillips' have become the nation's largest...and possibly only...manufacturer of giant fuzzy dice. But few people are aware Walworth County is the Giant Fuzzy Dice Capital of the World because Bob and Carole like to keep a low profile. And it isn't hard to keep things quiet when your house is stuffed with foam rubber."
Giant Fuzzy Dice. I am not sure how sturdy they are, so I don't know if you could exactly play soccer with them. Yet the simple act of kicking a giant pair of fuzzy dice around a playing field can lead a sufficiently playful group of soccer players to new heights of junkyardly accomplishment. Like, for example, when you make a goal, your score is what's on the face of the die. Or do you play with two dice at the same time?
Even if you can't kick them, you could certainly bat them around, volleyball-like. Even if you only had the living room to play in. There's something transforming about giant fuzzy dice, something that begs the creation of games, that invites the imagination, ignites the senses of humor and play, becomes the very stuff of a junkyard sport.










