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
Yearly Archives: 2011
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
Poems for Corpses
This story has everything a reasonable person could possibly want in a macabre bedtime story- dark Victorians, poetry, death, opium, decomposition, grave robbing, famous people, eros/thanatos, complicated grief. The list goes on…
October 18, 2011 | Blog
Take two rotting whales and call me in the morning.
God. Whales. HATE THEM. Hate them. I’ve gotten better over the past few years. Sort of. But they are so large and ungainly and clearly out for human blood. When I was…
October 16, 2011 | Blog
Death Haul
Are we all familiar with the concept of hauls? They’re videos on youtube made by girls who sit in front of their webcams and talk about what they bought at Forever 21…
October 14, 2011 | Blog
Aaawwwwww Jeez
The night before the burial of her husband 2nd Lt. James Cathey of the United States Marine Corps, killed in Iraq, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next…
October 11, 2011 | Blog