An idea ripe for stealing

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A hearty thanks to the pale and cranky staff down at the Texas Triffid Ranch for drawing my attention to the inner city snail project. (Seal-clubbing is apparently not controversial enough for this crowd, and anyone who hasn't already seen bonzai kittens should be spared the joke.) The snails pictured appear to be the brown garden snail Helix aspersa, and readers in the Bay area can decorate their own. Those of us in the Northeast can capture our resident English garden snails to make them into art. Of course, many of them are already quite beautiful, so painting them could be considered gilding the lily--or shall we say renovating the gastropod. We can check 'renovating the gastropod' on the urban dictionary later, to see if it means something dirty.