Creepy Vintage Cards: St Paddy's Edition

Leave the generic leprechaun imagery in the dust with these fun and festive Irish ditties. Nothing says "let's get slaughtered on a Tuesday" quite like fops in unflattering pantaloons.

Kangaroofugee

It's Stuck

Blackhole Sun..

Plastic surgery and makeup is ostensibly meant to enhance your appearance, yes?
And sure, in come cases new problems arise, decisions are made, and results may vary.

So how do you know when to leave well enough alone?
Well, you may consider it around the time you start resembling a CG experiment from a Soundgarden video. Just a thought.

Video first.



Reference second.

She's a Brick..Mouth!

A SKELETON exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the "vampires" widely referred to in contemporary documents.

Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found the skeleton of a woman with a small brick in her mouth (see right) while excavating mass graves of plague victims from the Middle Ages on Lazzaretto Nuovo Island in Venice (see second image here).

At the time the woman died, many people believed that the plague was spread by "vampires" which, rather than drinking people's blood, spread disease by chewing on their shrouds after dying. Grave-diggers put bricks in the mouths of suspected vampires to stop them doing this, Borrini says.

The belief in vampires probably arose because blood is sometimes expelled from the mouths of the dead, causing the shroud to sink inwards and tear. Borrini, who presented his findings at a meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Denver, Colorado, last week, claims this might be the first such vampire to have been forensically examined. The skeleton was removed from a mass grave of victims of the Venetian plague of 1576.

However, Peer Moore-Jansen of Wichita State University in Kansas says he has found similar skeletons in Poland and that while Borrini's finding is exciting, "claiming it as the first vampire is a little ridiculous".

Borrini says his study details the earliest grave to show archaeological "exorcism evidence against vampires".

Via New Scientist

Men in Tights and Stamps of Frights

Two things that made me smile at 4:11 this afternoon.



via Causing Habits

I Have An UnG-dly Cr-sh On Merlin Mann

Whenever my brain feels like it's degenerating into a seething puddle of old Silly Putty, I turn to his blogs or his Twitter posts. They're insightful and dead random, which quickly ticks off my personal qualifications of EPIC MANLINESS
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He even has a mini blog dedicated to publishing micro lists, of which the following is but an example.


Read it? Killer, right?

I also have an UnPro Biodly (new portmanteau: Against Pro Biotics + Godly = super sinful) crush on Dave Eggers, whose McSweeneys site also publishes lists.

Maybe I just like men who make lists.
Do you make lists? You may make the cut. I am a woman of easy leisure.

FACT: If Your Lawyer Looks More Like a Felon Than You Do, Abort!

Fact: You and Your Cat Should Never Have the Same Dentist

All Kitted Out

This is fantastic. But my question: why is he carrying a cat carrier if the cat resumes its position instinctively?

It simply doesn't make sense!




Top Cat - For more funny videos, click here

Words that Practice What They Preach

Sesquipedalian:
Adjective meaning “polysyllabic,” or “long.”

Pushin' Always Makes For Good Eatin'

Obama Reveals His Cat Policy

Giant Rabbits Make My Life Better




And in case you think it's photoshopped, I give you video!

Something Visual to Cut the Copy

Commitment

I'm going to try it.
The first draft of my list of 10 places I want to see at this point in my life.
And it's not for you, it's for me. Although I'd like to hear your lists if you're so inclined.

Also. It's in no particular order. It took long enough to get this far and I'm old, weak, and tired from the attempt.

Now that I draft it, I realize that the first bit could actually be a little itinerary! Huzzah!

1. Argentina - Tierra del Fuego to Buenos Aires to Patagonia
2. ...To the Inca Trail, Cuzco & Macchu Picchu
3. ...To Colombia - Bogota and the Lost City Hike

Hopefully the drug lords, leftwing guerrillas, rightwing paramilitary, the police, & the army - all suspected of wrongdoing - won't prevent me from the next few.

4. Jordan - Petra & Wadi Rum
5. Egypt - tour the ancient cities: Saqqara, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Luxor
6. Laos/Cambodia - Angkor Wat
7. Indonesia
8. Madagascar & the pirate islands (Sainte Marie)
9. Turkey - Istanbul, Cappadocia, Olympus
10. Kenya - (must stay at the giraffe manor)

And there's the Smithsonian and Dia de los Muertos in Mexico.
Actually, specific festivals and landmarks are the next item of business.
This is complicated stuff.

Baby Twitter Poems III

"Butterdie"

On a silver tray did the butterflies play,
their grace was something to see.
But blind was I, so put my cup by
and crushed then under my tea

Baby Twitter Poems II

"4 is the loneliest"

There was a lonely time between 3 and 5 that knew not it was 4.

Baby Twitter Poems

Occasionally I writer Twitter poems.
Knowing that they won't get archived there, I'll collect them here:

"Ode To All Day Breakfast"

If breakfast is dinner and dinner is brunch,
Let's meat in the middle and have bacon for lunch.