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Well thank Heavens someone did.

The Museum of Funeral Customs!

How could I not love a museum whose slogan is "Death Is Only The Beginning"? Whose gift shop sells casket paperweights, chocolate coffins (with removable lids), and a T-shirt that reads "Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime..."?
Much thanks to Sarah Vowell's book, Assassination Vacation, for the tip ( Read more... )

Money is a kind of poetry.-Wallace Stevens ( Read more... )

Time Zone: "World Destruction" (feat. Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon; produced by Bill Laswell)

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As an aside, while I have a weakness for 80s side projects featuring Mr. Rotten, I still have very little to no use for The Sex Pistols.
Yes yes yes, I know... punk this, relevance that. I still say "meh."

1. The 1942 Disney cartoon "Der Fuehrer's Face" not only won an Academy Award, but is also ranked as one of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time.

2. Vladimir Putin wants to be Prime Minister of Russia. Apparently high-ranking KGB official and President weren't enough.

3. Although Danica McKellar (aka "Winnie Cooper" from The Wonder Years) is ( Read more... )

Just finished watching a 9-part documentary on VBS.TV about the drug Burundanga, also known as "Colombian Devil's Breath" or "The Zombie Drug." It was described in the first installment as being like the worst Roofie in the world times 100 ( Read more... )

Remains of czar heir may have been found

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Featuring Sgt. Jason Lemieux, along with First Lieutenant Paul Rieckhoff, author of Chasing Ghosts - Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective.