I had a brainstorm while picking up groceries at our local Raley’s grocery store. Sometimes, you encounter something so bizarre, so strange, so downright wrong that you just have to shake your head and wonder if the Apocalypse can be far off.

Today, I had one of those moments, and checked to see if signoftheapocalypse was an actual tag on Flickr. Nobody else seems to have tagged a photo with it (except, now me) so I hereby propose that anytime you see something that qualifies, snap a quick picture phone picture, upload it to flickr, and tag it with signoftheapocalypse to share it with others.

Today’s entry is of course Buck, the Singing Deer Head, a pricier expansion of the infamous Billy Bass meme. I embarrassingly admit: I have one of the basses in my office. In my defense, it was being liquidated at something like $3, long after the craze was dead. Here, we have the true bargain though: a lifesize deer head that sings Rawhide. The package apparently includes a Karaoke microphone, so your trophy can go all Ashley Simpson for you. And, of course Raley’s has them at the bargain price of $99.99.

Honestly, can the battle at Armageddon be far off?

What’s truly amazing to me is not that a store would actually carry such a thing, but that they would carry dozens of them. They had these things stacked up like they were cartons of milk.

What’s your sign of the oncoming apocalypse?