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A visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new a
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Odd animals 11/4/09 An Australian girl is injured attempting to rescue an echidna from a storm drain.Leonardo's lion 8/17/09 A portrait of Cosimo I de Medici (not by da Vinci) features the earliest depiction of a watch.Adventurers Club 8/9/09 Neighbo...
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Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin wearing one of his designer prostheses.I want to follow up on my posts, but the news items and comments are coming so fast and furious that I have opted to discontinue my time-consuming practice of many small illustrat...
Human bone china
Since Friday, when this article appeared, the weird news has been buzzing about cremation urns in the shape of a loved one's head, and asking, "What could be creepier?" Well, Quigley has an answer to that* - although I think it's more cool than creep...
Creative cremains
What is this, you ask? It is one of 8,000 sealed cans of unclaimed cremated human ashes that have accumulated since 1883 at the Oregon State Hospital. A photographer has found the corrosion on these copper containers - the cremains of psychiatric pat...
