“Hi, I’m a bunny.” Thank you, Josh.
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Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit”
“And if you go chasing rabbits/And you know you’re going to fall”
“New Morning,” by Bob Dylan
“Rabbit running down across the road<br>Underneath the bridge where the water flowed through”
He combines three of my favorite things…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Spin, April 2006
The guys are in the van when we pick up Karen from her Echo Park home. Since rabbits have been a playful obsession of the band (frequently appearing in their artwork), we’re on our way to the Bunny Museum—the Pasadena home of husband and wife Steve Lubanski and Candee Frazee, who have been cited by Guinea World Records for acquiring 8.437 rabbit-themed collectibles. (Frazee wasn’t sure she wanted to be visited by a band whose march includes a bunny pin with “Let’s Fuck” printed on it, but she didn’t want to exclude anyone from the world of rabbits.)
Our visit to the museum is brief. We check out stuffed bunnies, ceramic bunnies, nationality-themed bunnies, holiday bunnies, figurines of other animals dressed as bunnies, figurines of bunnies dressed as other animals, trees that have been manicured into bunny shapes, live bunnies, freeze-dried bunnies, and “The Garden of Broken Dreams”: a backyard planting ground where damaged bunny collectibles have been laid to rest. Zinner snaps a few photos.
Then our host offers to take one. Chase sits between Zinner and Karen. He looks like a prom chaperone whose job is to make sure no two kids get too close. Only Karen’s and Zinner’s expressions suggest there’s no danger of that. Karen gives Chase bunny ears. The camera flashes.
