This is a real shirt for sale on Amazon. Can ANYONE explain the slogan to me? Even sort of? This is a close up of the text. “Like you could do better”…
October 29, 2011 | Blog
Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Graveyard Book
I got a text from my roommate telling me to turn on NPR in 10 minutes when they’d be interviewing Neil Gaiman for a children’s book segment. “The graveyard children’s book author”…
October 29, 2011 | Blog
The Cost of a Life
October 28, 2011 | Blog
Space Essay
For some reason this did not cross post on my blog and essays section. It’s an essay on death in SPACE. FIND ME HERE
October 28, 2011 | Blog
Terminal Illness Cuteness
This picture was posted on imgur with the following request: Photoshop Request: This is the photo of my daughter and her best friend who has been diagnosed with leukemia. Can you photoshop…
October 28, 2011 | Blog
Joan Didion, Making Wizened Look Fly.
“I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days, the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the…
October 25, 2011 | Blog
Eros & Thanatos Roundup
I need to get these off my desktop. They are the most evile of .jpg temptresses. “Use me for something great,” they seem to say. Yet in truth, there is only the…
October 25, 2011 | Blog
The Final Frontier… for your Dead Body.
My sixth grade teacher was the stern but fair Mrs. Onizuka. She was the cousin of Elison Onizuka, notable Hawaiian and the first Asian American in space. Elison is best known, unfortunately,…
October 25, 2011 | Blog // Experimental Death
Pedicure on my toes, toes
I don’t “interpret” art that often because it reminds me of the Illeana Douglas art class scenes from Ghost World. “It’s called ‘Tampon in a Teacup,’ it’s a response to the issue…
October 21, 2011 | Blog
No seriously…
October 21, 2011 | Blog
Of Suicides & Tigers
This month so far I’ve had two cases (both men) who shot themselves in the head. It’s hard times out there. People get sad and hopeless. People- men far more often then…
October 19, 2011 | Blog
Of COURSE this exists.
Oh hey guys, meet Eternal Communication Systems. What is that disembodied alarm pad, you ask? Why, it’s a recorder that is put in the casket with your dead relative that goes off…
October 18, 2011 | Blog