This is my haunted plant, Chris Plant.

He came to the office on Friday as part of a Halloween promotional collaboration between the handyman / odd jobs app Handy and the Dr. Best House and Medical Museum in Middleburgh, New York. He was delivered in a white paper gift bag full of black tulle and bubble wrap. In general I’m not that into promotional stunts executed by on-demand labor apps, but the idea of a startup inviting trapped, unhappy spirits into the equation is appealing to me. Ghosts — the original disrupters!

Chris Plant is a cutting from a calendula plant, which is commonly known as a marigold. He doesn’t have a flower on him, but…

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