Flaming Pea on Fancy Cushion: Weird Re/Searches?

It struck me today, during an email brainstorming thread with John Coulthart, Ann, and Gio Clairval that started with "Jeff, I don't know that just an illo of a pea works" and resulted in the possibility of art in the Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities that will depict a pea ablaze atop a fancy display cushion...that most days in the book business are fairly damn hilarious, absurd in the best possible way. (For the last volume, I remember our frantic search for a translation into Spanish of a section of Nathan Ballingrud's contribution, so it could be presented as a fake page from a supposed Borges-edited Spanish-language version. Crazy.)But it also made me wonder who out there, in following their creative destiny or at the behest of others, has found themselves involved in strange or hilarious research/searches and not even realized how far down the rabbit hole they've gone until they were in the midst of it? (Please keep it PG-13, thanks.)Speaking of which, last week it was "We need bug armor, and we need it ASAP--and give it teeth! Thanks." And the amazing Ivica Stevanovic delivers (this is just a small detail from the full-on composition.)