"...the thingness of something becomes apparent when it is no longer functioning as it did before or it becomes dysfunctional or if it appears in an unexpected place..."
the times reports that ‘iron’ mike tyson has openened a cannabis shop in amsterdam where you can buy “mike bites”, cannabis sweets in the shape of an ear, referring to his comeback fight against evander holyfield which was stopped when he bit off a piece of his opponent’s ear.