Yearly Archives: 2011

Deathstination: The LaBrea Tar Pits

Today’s Deathstination:  The LaBrea Tar Pits Location:  Los Angeles, CA First Impressions Saturday morning my roommate and I arrived at the LaBrea Tar Pits, which I had never actually been to, despite… 

October 4, 2011 | Morbid Travel

Fluorescent Mask Hospice Win

There was a story in the New York Times about a year ago that NO ONE SENT ME.  I know a bunch of you read the Times (lookin’ at you, Frankel).  So… 

October 3, 2011 | Blog

Breaking News: Rotting Stuff Smells Bad!

The city of Seattle requires its citizens to recycle food scraps.  Did you know that?  I didn’t know that. Apparently it’s been very successful thus far, but the massive composting facilities smell… 

September 30, 2011 | Blog

Fancy Edible Skeleton Party

Heston Blumenthal (best name in the world, btw) is one of those “fancy” English chefs.  He does molecular gastronomy, vacuum seals, and apparently he’s a revolutionary desert bacon connoisseur. “Blumenthal is a… 

September 30, 2011 | Blog

Death Twat of the Week

  “A Wisconsin cemetery groundskeeper is charged with prying an expensive Fender Telecaster guitar from the hands of a corpse because he allegedly thought the instrument was too valuable to end up… 

September 29, 2011 | Blog

High School + Morgue = Joy (#SimpleMath)

Back when I was waiting for the Order’s website to be back up and running, I posted these amazing photos from the 70’s of high school students visiting a crematory on the… 

September 28, 2011 | Blog

Cantaloupes of DEATH

Oh holy hell what is this about cantaloupes? WASHINGTON — Federal health officials said Wednesday more illnesses and possibly more deaths may be linked to an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe in… 

September 28, 2011 | Blog

Guest Post: THE DIRGE #1

Mortician’s Note: Sheera Talpaz is the poet laureate of the Order.  She has her MFA in poetry from Michigan, but is made to toil as a teacher for the fecund young minds… 

September 27, 2011 | Blog

Deathline

New in deathnetworking is Facebook’s introduction of Timeline. The Timeline is in effect the new Facebook ‘profile’. As you would expect, it is a timeline of your status updates and content uploads… 

September 27, 2011 | Blog

Today’s Boy Band Decay Metaphor

This is an English boy band called The Wanted. Here they are singing their broken hearts out in a decayed, dilapidated warehouse.  A place that time has forgotten as it slowly crumbles… 

September 26, 2011 | Blog

Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome

We’ve all heard of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) where a small child is found dead in its crib with no apparent cause of death to be found.  But apparently this same phenomenon… 

September 26, 2011 | Blog