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
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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
Take Me, Reanimated Geoffrey Gorer
Geoffrey Gorer was an English anthropologist writing in the first half of the 20th century. One of his essays “The Pornography of Death” argued that death had become culture’s new sex- taboo,…
October 10, 2011 | Blog
Chicago Deathstination: Ada/Ava
I cannot recommend a show more highly than I do this one. This recommendation comes even though I have not yet seen the final product- which I hope you won’t bring up…
October 10, 2011 | Blog
Death’s Doings by Richard Dagley, 1807
The University of Illinois has Death Doings, a magical lil’ 19th century masterwerk by Richard Dagley scanned into their texts archive. Found here. Death as a Wet Nurse (note: Do not hand…
October 10, 2011 | Blog