All sorts of exciting things today. I’m up way early- #FML – except NOT, because it’s to do an interview on NPR. WHAT?! NPR-U-FOR-REAL? The show is called Word of Mouth, based…
November 29, 2011 | Blog
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Well now here are some things.
1) Being featured on German blogs fills me with intense waves of joy. This is the fourth or fifth one I’ve found so far. Of course I Google translate them like, immediately. …
November 27, 2011 | Blog
Subversive Cartoon Mortality
Death theory is always like, “if you show your kids cartoons and they see Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff and then popping up and being fine 3 seconds later it’s…
November 25, 2011 | Blog
New Deathstination Post has arrived…
…and it’s about Disneyland. In my last Ask a Mortician video I mentioned that I would be a patron at the happiest place on earth. Not on your list of Morbid Travel…
November 21, 2011 | Blog
Deathstination: Disneyland
Today’s Deathstination: Disneyland Location: Anaheim, CA Dispatches from the most magical place on earth! I had never been to Disneyland before this past weekend. Sadly my mother and father were clearly deficient…
November 21, 2011 | Blog // Morbid Travel
Say it ain’t so, Cher!
Order of the Good Death facebook member Robert Caron brought this to our attention: Did you ever see the original album art for Cher’s Heart of Stone record? She claimed that she…
November 21, 2011 | Blog
And Suddenly, Death Seemed Not So Bad
“To an Apache Indian, dreaming of an Owl signified approaching death.” Yeah sure, death by CUTENESS, maybe. Owls are symbols of death in many cultures from the Kikuyu of Kenya to the…
November 20, 2011 | Blog
Chronophage Memento Mori
In a conversation with a friend, I was reminded of this video. The grasshopper chomps away at time, steady and unchanging. A memento mori for the stylishly scientific. The Corpus Clock has…
November 19, 2011 | Blog
True Love
November 18, 2011 | Blog
Blast from the Vampiric Past
In honor of the release of Breaking Dawn, here is an essay I wrote this past spring on sex and death in Twilight. HERE It’s fun- if you like teenage mortality driven…
November 18, 2011 | Blog
Bountiful gifts upon us this day!
The glamorous Nephele, administrator at Goth.net, sent the Order a fantastic email giving the our members darque anagrammed names. I really couldn’t share them with you fast enough- my heart being unable…
November 16, 2011 | Blog
Natural Burial
Please meander over to the Mission section of the website if you have some time. NATURAL BURIAL & EMBRACING DECAY Part of the Order’s mission is to have you accept your eventual…
November 15, 2011 | Blog