Sub Rosa
By Mikita Brottman
[7.Jul.09] :. Nothing like a new iPhone to make one feel self-conscious about one’s ears.
[21.Apr.09] :. Esotouric offers the connoisseur of crime a selection of tours round the infamous hot-spots of L.A’s darkest neighborhoods.
[28.May.08] :. The girls collected in Surton's photographs evoke butterflies pinned to a board in the dusty attic of a lonely lepidopterist.
[6.May.08] :. Like a cyber séance, of sorts, these Internet services have become a means for the dead to speak to the living.
[26.Mar.08] :. Some Amazon buyers serve as "culture jammers", expressing their contempt for advertisers through simple acts of creative customer feedback.
[19.Feb.08] :. If you’re not shocked by the idea of mounting a dead animal’s head on the wall, why should you be shocked by Body Worlds 2?
[6.Feb.08] :. Retirement homes for elderly herbivores and posthumous plans for your pet should you kick the proverbial bucket of water, first.
[7.Jan.08] :. Welcome to an alternate universe populated entirely by middle-aged lesbians the likes of Robert Redford, Barry Manilow, Al Franken, and Kim Jong-il.
[26.Nov.07] :. However unseemly and excessive this market may seem, the fact is that ever since there have been celebrities, there have been people rooting through their rubbish.
[22.Oct.07] :. Since we expect our celebrities to be beautiful, it's no surprise that we've acquired a clinical, critical eye for fine distinctions of physiology, scrutinizing the form and shape of the human face in Talmudic minuteness.
[24.Sep.07] :. Thanks to Dead Man Eating, I now know that most states actually offer you your “special meal” a couple of days before your execution date, when you’ve still got enough of an appetite to enjoy it.
[27.Aug.07] :. McCoy's massage parlor guides are comprised of funny, fussbudget prose and genteel, old-world attitude toward the "charms" of the "ladies" he has visited.
[7.Aug.07] :. National Geographic's
Animals in the Womb brings up an interesting thought; nobody goes around aborting cute, unborn puppies -- we wait until they're born to get rid of them.
[2.Jul.07] :. Always wanted to invite a famous person over for dinner? You can dine with almost any one you want, every day, no linen napkin required.
[4.Jun.07] :. No-one wants to talk seriously about toilets. Poke around in the hidden corners of The Poop Report, and you’ll come to see there's a lot more to it than tales about the trots.
[11.May.07] :. It seems that teleportation, spontaneous human combustion, poltergeists, UFO sightings, alien abductions, and other such phenomena has fallen out of fashion, these days.
[2.Apr.07] :. For those waiting on a cold night for a shrunken head, a vampire-killing silver bullet, and the last, nasty little shred of Abe Lincoln, they would only be misled and deceived, yet again.
[7.Mar.07] :. Without venturing to psychoanalyze Art Garfunkel’s unconscious fixations, I’d say there are times when you can, in fact, tell a book by its cover -- and one of them is when it’s covered in protective plastic.
[6.Feb.07] :. Cats that Look Like Hitler: Where cute starts to seem creepy...
[9.Jan.07] :. A profile of rogue taxidermists, also known as artists who pay tribute to the overlooked detritus of the natural world, of which death is only a part.