The Omo Masalai are a tribe in Papua New Guinea. I don’t know much about Papua New Guinea except that when I was 8 my good friend’s father went there for months…
August 28, 2012 | Blog
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Hobo Death Customs: And Now You Know
Everyone gets all sassy about Buzzfeed because their lists, ex. “Top 59 things that will make you go WTF?!” are just images stolen from Reddit or Tumblr. But now it seems they’ve…
August 27, 2012 | Blog
Gosling “Hey Death” Memes Magically Appear
Yesterday I pondered (as oft one does) why there weren’t more Ryan Gosling “Hey Girl/ Hey Death” memes. The delightful Monroe Charles, who I’ve wanted to work with for awhile, stepped up…
August 21, 2012 | Blog
Ryan Gosling, “Hey Death”
Anyone who likes, you know… the INTERNET knows that the Ryan Gosling “Hey Girl” meme doesn’t get old. Pictures of Ryan saying sensitive made-up things just continue to be funny after other…
August 20, 2012 | Blog
Deathly Doodle — Memento
A memento is an object that we keep to remind us of the past. Every second, we grow older. Every second, something important to us — a person, a possession, an experience…
August 15, 2012 | Blog
Argument for Being Eaten By Ravens
“We are the ultimate scavengers of all time. Everything from the coal forests to a large part of the earth’s animal biomass– domestic birds and mammals (and, increasingly, fish)– are cycled directly…
August 13, 2012 | Blog
I Belize in a Thing Called Love
Deathlings! I leave tomorrow for a week in Belize. Since I will be staying in a hut on a lagoon with no electricity, this means zero Internet. Good GOD WHAT WILL I…
August 2, 2012 | Blog
American Funeral Home Revolution #2: Stop Thinking Like a Funeral Director
The second installment (find the first here) from awesome Austin-based funeral director Sarah Wambold documenting the process of opening her own funeral home. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Hello funeral fam — My last post was a big…
August 2, 2012 | Blog