Sub Rosa

E-mails from the Dead

[6.May.08] :. Like a cyber séance, of sorts, these Internet services have become a means for the dead to speak to the living.

Customer Feedback

[26.Mar.08] :. Some Amazon buyers serve as "culture jammers", expressing their contempt for advertisers through simple acts of creative customer feedback.

Plastic Fantastic

[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?

When Pets are Past Their Prime

[6.Feb.08] :. Retirement homes for elderly herbivores and posthumous plans for your pet should you kick the proverbial bucket of water, first.

Dyke-Alikes

[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.

One Man’s Trash…

[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.

The Good, the Ugly, and the Simply Awful

[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.

Dinners of the Damned

[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.

The Real McCoy

[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.

Xtreme Zoo Babies

[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.

Stars in our Pies

[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.

Shit Happens

[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.

Abandoning the Fort

[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.

Side Show Suckers

[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.

Art History

[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.

Mein Kat

[6.Feb.07] :. Cats that Look Like Hitler: Where cute starts to seem creepy...

Mixed Pickles

[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.