I went to Target on Monday to stock up on household necessities like toilet paper, and to buy Julian a shopping cart. His old shopping cart was a cheapo job that constantly came apart, and the last time it did it cut his finger too.

The Target cart is great. It's as sturdy as a regular supermarket cart. All metal, but scaled down to kids size. Holds quite a bit too, so I can actually put groceries in his cart and have him haul them around the store for me.

Anyway, while we were at Target I saw these incredible Buddha head statues for like $19.99. Then a household gong, on a stand! And the final kicker...a big outdoor Buddha statue for only $49.99. I saw a similar one at a garden store for about $250 just last weekend.

I can't believe that Target has turned into the place that I can buy both toilet paper and Buddha statues. And a gong! A GONG, fer cryin' out loud.

Ugh, I love Target.

When I went to check out, my checker was a pre-op tranny. A pretty bad one. She was about six and a half feet tall, all gangly, with ropy biceps, a prominent adam's apple, scraggly shoulder-length hair and garish makeup.

The next checker over had 4-5 lip piercings and a nose piercing. And the guy out collecting shopping carts in the parking lot had two nose piercings. It was like being at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or something.

There were hardly any moms screaming at their kids, like I remember...instead the place was full of wanna-be hep cats. Trippy.