“A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should be buried in a coffin that decays…
September 26, 2012 | Blog
Yearly Archives: 2012
Steven Spielberg’s Mother Doesn’t Think I Look Like a Mortician
There is a restaurant in Los Angeles called Milky Way. Before you think this is just a shitty Yelp review, there’s a punchline to this. The name comes from its status as…
September 25, 2012 | Blog
We Are All Made of Stars
Carl Sagan once said that we are all “star stuff.” We began deep in the blazing innards of the stars of the ancient universe (note: I’ve been trying to work the phrase…
September 24, 2012 | Blog
A Hearse is a Hearse of Curse of Curse.
The Mysteries of Vernacular video series explains the origin of words through fancy book animations. I don’t know why this doesn’t have a ba-jillion views (I have a very sophisticated understanding of…
September 20, 2012 | Blog
What’s a Corpse Have to Do to Get Naturally Buried ‘Round Here?
Currently reading a book called Corpse. Which is a great name for a book. Second only to simply Death as a say what you mean, mean what you say title. Corpse is…
September 17, 2012 | Blog
Suicide as Afterlife Helper
In Western culture, suicide is almost always associated with failure. The suicidal person can’t manage to come to terms with their life so they “give up.” But what if you’re from a…
September 10, 2012 | Blog
Ask a Mortician — Liquefying Bodies
The new Ask a Mortician has arrived, death fiends. This episode concerns a brand new method o’ body disposal, alkaline hydrolysis. In the video, I create an alkaline hydrolysis machine from a…
September 4, 2012 | Blog
Omo Masalai Are Skeleton Dancing Better Than You
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
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