Tuesday, July 7 2009
The Curse of Monkey-Eared People
Nothing like a new iPhone to make one feel self-conscious about one’s ears.
Tuesday, April 21 2009
The Special Bus
Esotouric offers the connoisseur of crime a selection of tours round the infamous hot-spots of L.A’s darkest neighborhoods.
Wednesday, May 28 2008
Surton Girls
The girls collected in Surton's photographs evoke butterflies pinned to a board in the dusty attic of a lonely lepidopterist.
Tuesday, May 6 2008
E-mails from the Dead
Like a cyber séance, of sorts, these Internet services have become a means for the dead to speak to the living.
Wednesday, March 26 2008
Customer Feedback
Some Amazon buyers serve as "culture jammers", expressing their contempt for advertisers through simple acts of creative customer feedback.
Tuesday, February 19 2008
Plastic Fantastic
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?
Wednesday, February 6 2008
When Pets are Past Their Prime
Retirement homes for elderly herbivores and posthumous plans for your pet should you kick the proverbial bucket of water, first.
Monday, January 7 2008
Dyke-Alikes
Welcome to an alternate universe populated entirely by middle-aged lesbians the likes of Robert Redford, Barry Manilow, Al Franken, and Kim Jong-il.
Monday, November 26 2007
One Man’s Trash…
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.
Monday, October 22 2007
The Good, the Ugly, and the Simply Awful
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.
Monday, September 24 2007
Dinners of the Damned
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.
Monday, August 27 2007
The Real McCoy
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.
Tuesday, August 7 2007
Xtreme Zoo Babies
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.
Monday, July 2 2007
Stars in our Pies
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.
Monday, June 4 2007
Shit Happens
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.
Friday, May 11 2007
Abandoning the Fort
It seems that teleportation, spontaneous human combustion, poltergeists, UFO sightings, alien abductions, and other such phenomena has fallen out of fashion, these days.
Monday, April 2 2007
Side Show Suckers
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.
Wednesday, March 7 2007
Art History
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.
Tuesday, January 9 2007
Mixed Pickles
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.
