Bizarre Japanese Erotic Museums
The island of Japan is speckled with scores of bizarre, quirky sex museums known as Hihokan, or translated "House of Hidden Treasures".
See humping taxidermy, room-sized vaginas, pornographic skeet-ball, and loads of creepy copulating mannequins,
at the links below.
Fantastic Photoset at Flickr #1
Fantastic Photoset at Flickr#4
An Article with Photos at Japanvistor.com
A hyperlinked guide to 13 Japanese Erotic Museums
The island of Japan is speckled with scores of bizarre, quirky sex museums known as Hihokan, or translated "House of Hidden Treasures".
See humping taxidermy, room-sized vaginas, pornographic skeet-ball, and loads of creepy copulating mannequins,
at the links below.
Fantastic Photoset at Flickr #1
Fantastic Photoset at Flickr#4
An Article with Photos at Japanvistor.com
A hyperlinked guide to 13 Japanese Erotic Museums
The Edelweiss Pirates
(Teen Angst and Defiance During the Third Reich)
During the latter phases of the Third Reich, thousands of
German teens belonged to a free-living, back-to-nature, counter-culture youth group/hooligan network known now as the Edelweiss Pirates
They wore their hair long, sang songs by banned Jewish composers, got into brawls with the Hitler Youth, scrawled graffiti, vandalized shit, pulled down Nazi flags, distributed leaflets critical of Hitler, poured sugar into the gas tanks of Nazi vehicles, and even derailed train carriages loaded with munitions.
Learn more, see photos, hear their songs.
From the Archives
(Teen Angst and Defiance During the Third Reich)
During the latter phases of the Third Reich, thousands of
German teens belonged to a free-living, back-to-nature, counter-culture youth group/hooligan network known now as the Edelweiss Pirates
They wore their hair long, sang songs by banned Jewish composers, got into brawls with the Hitler Youth, scrawled graffiti, vandalized shit, pulled down Nazi flags, distributed leaflets critical of Hitler, poured sugar into the gas tanks of Nazi vehicles, and even derailed train carriages loaded with munitions.
Learn more, see photos, hear their songs.
From the Archives
Benjamin Franklin's Advice to a Young Man
on the Choice of a Mistress
Find a willing older woman, but a basket over her head,
and turn out the lights.
on the Choice of a Mistress
Find a willing older woman, but a basket over her head,
and turn out the lights.
Death Masks
A death mask is a plaster or wax cast made of a person's face following death.
Here’s some notable ones you can see online…
Shakespeare, Napoleon, Goethe, Julius Caesar, Bruce Lee,
Isaac Newton, Bertrolt Brecht, Tolstoy, Keats, Voltaire,
Queen Elizabeth I, James Joyce, Ben Franklin, Oliver Cromwell, Nichola Tesla, Robespierre, Franz Liszt, Chopin, Wagner,
Ezra Pound, Martin Luther, Alphred Hitcock,
Mary Queen of Scots, Robert E. Lee,Walt Whitmanm.
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A death mask is a plaster or wax cast made of a person's face following death.
Here’s some notable ones you can see online…
Shakespeare, Napoleon, Goethe, Julius Caesar, Bruce Lee,
Isaac Newton, Bertrolt Brecht, Tolstoy, Keats, Voltaire,
Queen Elizabeth I, James Joyce, Ben Franklin, Oliver Cromwell, Nichola Tesla, Robespierre, Franz Liszt, Chopin, Wagner,
Ezra Pound, Martin Luther, Alphred Hitcock,
Mary Queen of Scots, Robert E. Lee,Walt Whitmanm.
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Post-Mortem Photography
Photographing the deceased, posed in their Sunday best, often along-side living family members, was a common practice in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Link 8 (Purchase Post Mortem Photographs on Ebay)
Photographing the deceased, posed in their Sunday best, often along-side living family members, was a common practice in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Link 4 / Link 5 / Link 6 / Link 7
Link 8 (Purchase Post Mortem Photographs on Ebay)
A Dictionary of Victorian London
A massive and wonderful index of information and links
A massive and wonderful index of information and links
Highly Articulate Prairie Dogs
Prairie dogs have highly developed language skills. “They have different 'words' for tall human in yellow shirt, short human in green shirt, coyote, deer, red-tailed hawk and many other creatures.
They can even coin new terms for things they've never seen before, independently coming up with the same calls or words, according to Con Slobodchikoff, a Northern Arizona University biology professor and prairie dog linguist.”
Prairie dogs have highly developed language skills. “They have different 'words' for tall human in yellow shirt, short human in green shirt, coyote, deer, red-tailed hawk and many other creatures.
They can even coin new terms for things they've never seen before, independently coming up with the same calls or words, according to Con Slobodchikoff, a Northern Arizona University biology professor and prairie dog linguist.”
Tool Making Crows
BBC Article
Video of a New Caledonian crow fashioning a hook out of wire
Article about these crow’s amazing problem solving abilities
BBC Article
Video of a New Caledonian crow fashioning a hook out of wire
Article about these crow’s amazing problem solving abilities
No-pan Kissa
A lost relic of the 1980s, No-pan kissa were Japanese cafes that had mirrored floors and panty-less, mini-skirt clad waitresses.
A lost relic of the 1980s, No-pan kissa were Japanese cafes that had mirrored floors and panty-less, mini-skirt clad waitresses.
Impossible Objects in Real Life
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(print it onto card-stock and make your own)
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(print it onto card-stock and make your own)
Cockle Bread
Cockle bread was a small piece of bread used by 17th century English lasses to woo lovers. It was created by imprinting the shape of ones vagina onto a piece of dough by pressing it against the vulva. The dough, once molded in this manner, was then baked and the resulting loaf presented to the man one hoped to attract. If he ate it, he would fall under a spell of love.
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Cockle bread was a small piece of bread used by 17th century English lasses to woo lovers. It was created by imprinting the shape of ones vagina onto a piece of dough by pressing it against the vulva. The dough, once molded in this manner, was then baked and the resulting loaf presented to the man one hoped to attract. If he ate it, he would fall under a spell of love.
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Porn for Pandas
Panda pornography has helped experts in China unleashed a baby boom among the world’s most beloved
endangered animals.
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Panda pornography has helped experts in China unleashed a baby boom among the world’s most beloved
endangered animals.
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1 Wall + 1 Week + 5 Japanese Artists
A collection of fast-time-lapse videos by the amazing Japanese art troupe Rinpa Eshindan.
Watch as they transform bare walls, cement floors and wooden boxes into evolving and regenerating pieces of living art.
A collection of fast-time-lapse videos by the amazing Japanese art troupe Rinpa Eshindan.
Watch as they transform bare walls, cement floors and wooden boxes into evolving and regenerating pieces of living art.
35 Years of Urban Development in 10 Seconds
Watch skyscrapers grow like bamboo in this fast-time-lapse video of downtown Shinjuku, Japan from 1969 to 2004.
Watch skyscrapers grow like bamboo in this fast-time-lapse video of downtown Shinjuku, Japan from 1969 to 2004.
The Amazing Lyre Bird
The Lyre bird can perfectly mimic the sound of car alarms, chainsaws, camera shutters with motor drives, as well as the calls of 20 different bird species. Click above for BBC video excerpt with David Attenborough.
The Lyre bird can perfectly mimic the sound of car alarms, chainsaws, camera shutters with motor drives, as well as the calls of 20 different bird species. Click above for BBC video excerpt with David Attenborough.
The Strange German Currency of the Weimer Republic
In 1920s Germany, when the post WWI economy was in shambles, individual towns were allowed to print their own emergency banknotes, called Notgeld. “These weren't simply standardized notes; sizes and designs varied from town to town. And rather than just print traditional styles of currency, some municipal governments actually hired illustrators who created sequential stories on the notes, like mini graphic novels.”
Note: After clicking on the links at the bottom of this page to see examples, you can use the arrows to click through a slideshow of
other banknotes in the series.
In 1920s Germany, when the post WWI economy was in shambles, individual towns were allowed to print their own emergency banknotes, called Notgeld. “These weren't simply standardized notes; sizes and designs varied from town to town. And rather than just print traditional styles of currency, some municipal governments actually hired illustrators who created sequential stories on the notes, like mini graphic novels.”
Note: After clicking on the links at the bottom of this page to see examples, you can use the arrows to click through a slideshow of
other banknotes in the series.
Ota Benga
Ota Benga was a Congolese pygmy who was displayed alongside an orangutan in a Bronx Zoo monkey cage during a short-lived 1906 exhibit.
Read and hear more about this tragic story of scientific racism.
Wikipedia Article
An NPR Story
A Book About Ota Benga
Ota Benga was a Congolese pygmy who was displayed alongside an orangutan in a Bronx Zoo monkey cage during a short-lived 1906 exhibit.
Read and hear more about this tragic story of scientific racism.
Wikipedia Article
An NPR Story
A Book About Ota Benga
Rasputin’s Cock
11 inches long and on display in St.Petersburg
11 inches long and on display in St.Petersburg
King Louis XIV's Heart
Sautéed, slow roasted and served with a side of beans
Sautéed, slow roasted and served with a side of beans
Ladislas Starevich
Ladislas Starevich is considered the father of stop-motion animation. His early pioneering works were short sub-10-minute length stories in which dead insects were animated within beautifully crafted miniature worlds.
Learn more about this cinematic genius and...
SEE 7 FILM CLIPS
Ladislas Starevich is considered the father of stop-motion animation. His early pioneering works were short sub-10-minute length stories in which dead insects were animated within beautifully crafted miniature worlds.
Learn more about this cinematic genius and...
SEE 7 FILM CLIPS
Rogue Taxidermy
A big list of links concerning this strange new art form.
Calf-headed ostriches, winged cats, conjoined frogs,
fornicating rodents, FeeJee Mermaids,
Chupacabras, bizarre dioramas, and more.
A big list of links concerning this strange new art form.
Calf-headed ostriches, winged cats, conjoined frogs,
fornicating rodents, FeeJee Mermaids,
Chupacabras, bizarre dioramas, and more.
The London Tube's Mutant Mosquitoes
"A new species of mosquito is evolving on the London Underground in a development that has astonished scientists. The insects are believed to be the descendants of mosquitoes which colonized the tunnels a hundred years ago when the Tube was being dug".
This degree of change "usually happens only when species are isolated for thousands rather than tens of years."
"A new species of mosquito is evolving on the London Underground in a development that has astonished scientists. The insects are believed to be the descendants of mosquitoes which colonized the tunnels a hundred years ago when the Tube was being dug".
This degree of change "usually happens only when species are isolated for thousands rather than tens of years."
The Ruins of Detroit
Photos and videos documenting the incredible
urban decay in Detroit.
Page also contains links to information about “white flight“, racism, the Midwestern offshoot of the KKK known as the Black Legion, and the 1943 and 1967 riots.
Photos and videos documenting the incredible
urban decay in Detroit.
Page also contains links to information about “white flight“, racism, the Midwestern offshoot of the KKK known as the Black Legion, and the 1943 and 1967 riots.
Dinner In the Sky
A restaurant in Brussels where you eat at a large banquet table suspended 160 feet in the air.
A restaurant in Brussels where you eat at a large banquet table suspended 160 feet in the air.
Put Some Monkey Testicles in Your Scrotum!
In the 1920s, having sliced up pieces of monkey testicles graphed onto one's balls was all the rage with middle-aged American and European Millionaires.
Wikipedia Article
Article in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society
1923 Time Magazine Article
In the 1920s, having sliced up pieces of monkey testicles graphed onto one's balls was all the rage with middle-aged American and European Millionaires.
Wikipedia Article
Article in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society
1923 Time Magazine Article
Body Tricks Everyone Should Know!
Tricks to help ease sinus pressure, eliminate ice-cream-induced brain pain, stop the "pins and needles" of a sleeping limb, prevent burns from blistering and more.
Tricks to help ease sinus pressure, eliminate ice-cream-induced brain pain, stop the "pins and needles" of a sleeping limb, prevent burns from blistering and more.
The Meatrix
A critically-acclaimed, short, animated Adobe Flash film criticizing the methods of industrial agriculture.
The Film
Homepage
Where you can see the sequels and get more information
about the horrors of factory farms.
A critically-acclaimed, short, animated Adobe Flash film criticizing the methods of industrial agriculture.
The Film
Homepage
Where you can see the sequels and get more information
about the horrors of factory farms.
Mr. Woo’s Amazing Scrapyard Robots
Watch to the very end.
Watch to the very end.
Dutch Indo Rock
In the early 1960s some of the biggest bands playing in the European club circuit came out of the Indonesian-Dutch community centered around The Hague, the Netherlands.
If you like...
instrumental surf guitar rock & roll,
over-the-top groomsmen suits,
virtuoso guitar playing,
and
onstage showmanship way ahead of its time,
click above to learn more and...
SEE 15 VIDEOS
In the early 1960s some of the biggest bands playing in the European club circuit came out of the Indonesian-Dutch community centered around The Hague, the Netherlands.
If you like...
instrumental surf guitar rock & roll,
over-the-top groomsmen suits,
virtuoso guitar playing,
and
onstage showmanship way ahead of its time,
click above to learn more and...
SEE 15 VIDEOS
The Secret Gruesome History of Nursery Rhymes
In the nursery rhyme Mary Mary Quite Contrary the “silver bells” and “cockle shells” refer to instruments of torture.
Silver bells were thumbscrews which crushed the thumb between two hard surfaces by the tightening of a screw. Cockleshells are believed to be instruments of torture which were
attached to the genitals.
Where did I learn this? ……the fantastic British website Rhymes.org.uk which, in addition to hosting a huge collection of popular and obscure nursery rhyme lyrics, provides fascinating historical background information for many the rhymes as well.
Homepage
Mary Mary Quite Contrary Entry
In the nursery rhyme Mary Mary Quite Contrary the “silver bells” and “cockle shells” refer to instruments of torture.
Silver bells were thumbscrews which crushed the thumb between two hard surfaces by the tightening of a screw. Cockleshells are believed to be instruments of torture which were
attached to the genitals.
Where did I learn this? ……the fantastic British website Rhymes.org.uk which, in addition to hosting a huge collection of popular and obscure nursery rhyme lyrics, provides fascinating historical background information for many the rhymes as well.
Homepage
Mary Mary Quite Contrary Entry
Woody Allen Interviews Billy Graham
A very entertaining interview from a 1969
Wood Allen TV special
Part 1
Part 2
A very entertaining interview from a 1969
Wood Allen TV special
Part 1
Part 2
Gizmo
A brillant and quirky 1977 documentary about strange inventions and the people who strive to challenge or advance the capabilities of their bodies and technology through the act of invention
(Yes, regarding the ability to have concrete blocks smashed over your head or blow a up balloon with your ear as an "invention" might be a bit of a stretch, but , hey - it makes for a much more entertaining film,
The film is a bit slow in the beginning, but be patient - once it gets going there's probably six new novelties a minute (which, considering the film is 80 minutes long, is impressive).
Watch the whole thing and I guarantee that after an hour you’ll be shaking your head and saying to yourself..
"I can't believe how much amazing shit is in this movie".
A brillant and quirky 1977 documentary about strange inventions and the people who strive to challenge or advance the capabilities of their bodies and technology through the act of invention
(Yes, regarding the ability to have concrete blocks smashed over your head or blow a up balloon with your ear as an "invention" might be a bit of a stretch, but , hey - it makes for a much more entertaining film,
The film is a bit slow in the beginning, but be patient - once it gets going there's probably six new novelties a minute (which, considering the film is 80 minutes long, is impressive).
Watch the whole thing and I guarantee that after an hour you’ll be shaking your head and saying to yourself..
"I can't believe how much amazing shit is in this movie".
Gropecunt Lane
"Gropecunt Lane was a name used in English-speaking towns and cities in the Middle Ages for streets where prostitutes conducted their business. In most cases, the name would appear to derive directly from the words grope (sexual touching), and cunt (female genitalia).
At one point there were streets of this name in many cities in Britain and Ireland, though in most cases later sensibilities changed the name to some more polite variation."
"Gropecunt Lane was a name used in English-speaking towns and cities in the Middle Ages for streets where prostitutes conducted their business. In most cases, the name would appear to derive directly from the words grope (sexual touching), and cunt (female genitalia).
At one point there were streets of this name in many cities in Britain and Ireland, though in most cases later sensibilities changed the name to some more polite variation."
The Icelandic Phallological Museum
A collection of over one hundred penises and penile parts belonging to almost all the land and sea mammals that can be found in Iceland.
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A collection of over one hundred penises and penile parts belonging to almost all the land and sea mammals that can be found in Iceland.
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Cheval’s Palais Ideal
In 1879 a postman in rural France named Ferdinand Cheval began to build a complex, Angkor-Wat-esque castle/monument of concrete, lime, wire, and stone. For the next 34 years he would spend nearly every waking hour of his life (9000 days, 65,000 hours) engaged in one of the greatest solitary acts of creativity
in the history of art.
In 1879 a postman in rural France named Ferdinand Cheval began to build a complex, Angkor-Wat-esque castle/monument of concrete, lime, wire, and stone. For the next 34 years he would spend nearly every waking hour of his life (9000 days, 65,000 hours) engaged in one of the greatest solitary acts of creativity
in the history of art.
Hitler and the Volkswagen Beetle Links
How Adolph Hitler's beloved "Strength Through Joy" car became a hippie icon is...well...completely baffling.
How Adolph Hitler's beloved "Strength Through Joy" car became a hippie icon is...well...completely baffling.
Entomology for Skinheads
The Hitler Beetle, a rare cave dwelling species of beetle named after Adolph Hitler is quickly disappearing from the wild. Why? Neo-nazi are over-collecting them.
Sadly, it appears there are enough Nazi enthusiasts in the world to send an entire animal species to brink of extinction.
The Hitler Beetle, a rare cave dwelling species of beetle named after Adolph Hitler is quickly disappearing from the wild. Why? Neo-nazi are over-collecting them.
Sadly, it appears there are enough Nazi enthusiasts in the world to send an entire animal species to brink of extinction.
Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers
A 10 minute Swedish film in which six drummers create a mesmerizing percussive performance with the mundane objects of an elderly couples apartment.
A 10 minute Swedish film in which six drummers create a mesmerizing percussive performance with the mundane objects of an elderly couples apartment.
A Man With a Lightbulb in his Anus
and other unusual situations caught on x-ray
and other unusual situations caught on x-ray
Doppelganger
A clever palindrome poem by James A. Lindon which,
taken line by line, reads backwards the same as it does forwards.
A clever palindrome poem by James A. Lindon which,
taken line by line, reads backwards the same as it does forwards.
Thomas Paine Anti-Christianity Quotes
The very man who invented the phase “The United States of America” despised Christianity, the Bible, and all forms of organized religion.
Click here for a list of incredible quotes and links concerning Britain’s greatest progressive radical and America’s most courageous and intellectually honest founding father.
The very man who invented the phase “The United States of America” despised Christianity, the Bible, and all forms of organized religion.
Click here for a list of incredible quotes and links concerning Britain’s greatest progressive radical and America’s most courageous and intellectually honest founding father.
Texas Obscenity Laws
It's a felony to possess more than five dildos in the state of Texas. This fact and other specifics of Texas's arcane obscenity laws are explored in the documentary Dildo Diaries.
See an excerpt from the film and learn more about the history of obscenity and sodomy laws.
It's a felony to possess more than five dildos in the state of Texas. This fact and other specifics of Texas's arcane obscenity laws are explored in the documentary Dildo Diaries.
See an excerpt from the film and learn more about the history of obscenity and sodomy laws.
The Memling Index
2008 Presidential Candidates Net Worth Graph
A pictorially qualitative graph in which each candidate's size is relative to their net worth.
2008 Presidential Candidates Net Worth Graph
A pictorially qualitative graph in which each candidate's size is relative to their net worth.
Emperor Norton Links
Homeless, penniless, mentally unstable individuals have been declaring themselves “King of the United States” for a long time. What is extraordinary about the story of Emperor Norton is that for several decades in the mid 19th century the entire city of San Francisco went to elaborate lengths to play along with the act.
Homeless, penniless, mentally unstable individuals have been declaring themselves “King of the United States” for a long time. What is extraordinary about the story of Emperor Norton is that for several decades in the mid 19th century the entire city of San Francisco went to elaborate lengths to play along with the act.
A Book with No Letter "E"
A Void is a 280+ page, French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec entirely without the letter “e”.
A Void is a 280+ page, French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec entirely without the letter “e”.
Illegal Sex with Imaginary Beasts
In the late 1970s a Florida State rep. twice tried to pass a law making it a crime to molest a Skunk Ape. A Skunk Ape is a hairy 450-pound, 7-foot-tall, rotten-egg-scented, imaginary creature purported to live in the cypress swamps
of the Florida Everglades.
In the late 1970s a Florida State rep. twice tried to pass a law making it a crime to molest a Skunk Ape. A Skunk Ape is a hairy 450-pound, 7-foot-tall, rotten-egg-scented, imaginary creature purported to live in the cypress swamps
of the Florida Everglades.
High-Tech Lollipops
Technology is transforming lollipops into narcotic-delivering, music-emitting, hologram-projecting, edible-fiber-optic-animated
laser-light shows on a stick.
Dude,...tell me more!
Technology is transforming lollipops into narcotic-delivering, music-emitting, hologram-projecting, edible-fiber-optic-animated
laser-light shows on a stick.
Dude,...tell me more!
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Those who endured adolescence during the 1980s will particularly enjoy this 15-minute video of the feathered-hair, Jack Daniels-and-Coke-sipping , tailgate scene outside a May 5, 1986, Judas Priest concert at the Capital Center in Landover, Maryland. Make sure you wait it out or fast forward to the interviews.
Those who endured adolescence during the 1980s will particularly enjoy this 15-minute video of the feathered-hair, Jack Daniels-and-Coke-sipping , tailgate scene outside a May 5, 1986, Judas Priest concert at the Capital Center in Landover, Maryland. Make sure you wait it out or fast forward to the interviews.
Dutch Barbarism in the New World
Indian genocide, forced self-cannibalism, decapitated-head football, scalp bounties, slave ships, and other tales of sadism in New Amsterdam.
Indian genocide, forced self-cannibalism, decapitated-head football, scalp bounties, slave ships, and other tales of sadism in New Amsterdam.
The Spotnicks
The Spotnicks were Sweden's first internationally famous rock band whose outer-space-inspired instrumental surf-rock climbed toward the top of the European, Australian, and Japanese charts in the early 1960s.
They wore space suits on stage, ran their guitars through anti-feedback echo effects, and were pretty fucking great.
See 7 videos and links
The Spotnicks were Sweden's first internationally famous rock band whose outer-space-inspired instrumental surf-rock climbed toward the top of the European, Australian, and Japanese charts in the early 1960s.
They wore space suits on stage, ran their guitars through anti-feedback echo effects, and were pretty fucking great.
See 7 videos and links
36 Bizarre Russian Cakes
Edible stenography machines, suitcases of bank notes, cartons of Diet Pepsi, dentures, laptop computers, giant hamburgers, and more.
Edible stenography machines, suitcases of bank notes, cartons of Diet Pepsi, dentures, laptop computers, giant hamburgers, and more.
Disco Demolition Night
Apparently the management of the Chicago White Sox failed to learn the lessons of Cleveland’s “Ten Cent Beer Night” five years earlier. In August 1979 they made a similar judgment in error when they tried to capitalize on the “Disco Sucks” movement of the late 1970’s and offered a specially priced 98 cent ticket to anyone who came with a Disco record to destroy at a July 1st double header against the Texas Rangers.
The result - an army of tens of thousands “drunken, stoned, long-haired teens sporting Sabbath and Zeppelin shirts, and carrying the requisite records” showed up for the games, swelling the stadium to 10,000 people over it‘s maximum capacity. By the end of the first game the entire stadium descended into a scene of complete pandemonium.
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Apparently the management of the Chicago White Sox failed to learn the lessons of Cleveland’s “Ten Cent Beer Night” five years earlier. In August 1979 they made a similar judgment in error when they tried to capitalize on the “Disco Sucks” movement of the late 1970’s and offered a specially priced 98 cent ticket to anyone who came with a Disco record to destroy at a July 1st double header against the Texas Rangers.
The result - an army of tens of thousands “drunken, stoned, long-haired teens sporting Sabbath and Zeppelin shirts, and carrying the requisite records” showed up for the games, swelling the stadium to 10,000 people over it‘s maximum capacity. By the end of the first game the entire stadium descended into a scene of complete pandemonium.
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Illegal Sex with Imaginary Beasts
In the late 1970s a Florida State rep. twice tried to pass a law making it a crime to molest a Skunk Ape. A Skunk Ape is a hairy 450-pound, 7-foot-tall, rotten-egg-scented, imaginary creature purported to live in the cypress swamp of the Florida Everglades.
(from the archive)
In the late 1970s a Florida State rep. twice tried to pass a law making it a crime to molest a Skunk Ape. A Skunk Ape is a hairy 450-pound, 7-foot-tall, rotten-egg-scented, imaginary creature purported to live in the cypress swamp of the Florida Everglades.
(from the archive)
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Recent Meteoric Rise in Wealth
A graph, links, and some thoughts
A graph, links, and some thoughts
Ten Cent Beer Night
“Ten Cent Beer Night” was an ill-conceived single game promotion dreamed up by the Cleveland Indians baseball team that for a night in 1974 transformed Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium into an orgy of mass intoxication, public nudity and violence.
By the time the 9th inning rolled around both teams and umpire crew had arranged themselves, bats in hand, into defensive formations on the infield to stave off the successive waves of inebriated fans armed with knives, chains
and torn-out stadium seats.
Wikipedia Article
Article with Photo
Another Article
“Ten Cent Beer Night” was an ill-conceived single game promotion dreamed up by the Cleveland Indians baseball team that for a night in 1974 transformed Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium into an orgy of mass intoxication, public nudity and violence.
By the time the 9th inning rolled around both teams and umpire crew had arranged themselves, bats in hand, into defensive formations on the infield to stave off the successive waves of inebriated fans armed with knives, chains
and torn-out stadium seats.
Wikipedia Article
Article with Photo
Another Article
Carl Tanzler
Carl Tanzler was a German-born radiologist who developed a morbid obsession for a young tuberculosis patient, Helen de Hoyos, that carried on well after she succumbed to the disease in 1931. In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from its tomb and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos' relatives and authorities in 1940.
Carl Tanzler was a German-born radiologist who developed a morbid obsession for a young tuberculosis patient, Helen de Hoyos, that carried on well after she succumbed to the disease in 1931. In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from its tomb and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos' relatives and authorities in 1940.
Legal Sex with the Deceased
To date, only sixteen states have enacted necrophilia laws.
To date, only sixteen states have enacted necrophilia laws.
Irving Berlin’s Transposing Piano
Celebrated songwriter Irving Berlin was a self taught pianist who couldn’t read or write music. He played piano almost exclusively on the black keys of the keyboard in the lone key of F-sharp major. This handicap became inconsequential, when in 1910 when he acquired a “Transposing Piano” which allowed him to easily switch keys by simply spinning a wheel mounted to the side of the keyboard. Berlin once said about his abilities as a pianist, "The black keys are right there, under your fingers. The key of C is for people who study music."
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Celebrated songwriter Irving Berlin was a self taught pianist who couldn’t read or write music. He played piano almost exclusively on the black keys of the keyboard in the lone key of F-sharp major. This handicap became inconsequential, when in 1910 when he acquired a “Transposing Piano” which allowed him to easily switch keys by simply spinning a wheel mounted to the side of the keyboard. Berlin once said about his abilities as a pianist, "The black keys are right there, under your fingers. The key of C is for people who study music."
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The Incredible Bowed Piano
“To get a sense of what the bowed piano is, imagine a grand piano with the lid lifted off. Ten musicians crowd around, leaning over the innards of the instrument, like a team of surgeons performing an operation.”
On this NPR page you can hear a story about it, see video of if in action, and take in a sampling of bowed piano music.
“To get a sense of what the bowed piano is, imagine a grand piano with the lid lifted off. Ten musicians crowd around, leaning over the innards of the instrument, like a team of surgeons performing an operation.”
On this NPR page you can hear a story about it, see video of if in action, and take in a sampling of bowed piano music.
thememlingindex.com
Afghan War Rugs
In the past few decades trees and birds have give way to AK-47s, Tanks, Helicopters, Fighter Jets and grenades in some to the rugs coming out of Afghanistan.
Microcars
Messerschimts, Austin Minis, Goggomobils, Fuji Cabins,
and loads of other vehicles that could fit inside the back of a
Lincoln Navigator.
Microcar Museum
Peel Microcars
Shriner Mini Cars
In the past few decades trees and birds have give way to AK-47s, Tanks, Helicopters, Fighter Jets and grenades in some to the rugs coming out of Afghanistan.
Microcars
Messerschimts, Austin Minis, Goggomobils, Fuji Cabins,
and loads of other vehicles that could fit inside the back of a
Lincoln Navigator.
Microcar Museum
Peel Microcars
Shriner Mini Cars
London’s Lost Theaters
Human Marvels
A Web archive of peculiar people
“presenting factual, plausible and sometimes near impossible prodigious, curious and eccentric human beings who stand as examples of the sheer variety of humankind.”
British Children’s Show’s X-Rated Episode
Rainbow was a popular British children’s show, which from 1972 to 1992 was considered the Sesame Street of the U.K.
In 1979 the show's cast and crew made a special X-rated, sexual-innuendo packed edition for the Thames TV staff Christmas tape, sometimes referred to as
the "Twangers" episode.
The Political Cartoons
and Advertising Artworks of Dr. Seuss
A Man Who Has Eaten a Bicycle, a Television,
and an Airplane
Monsieur Mangetout is a French entertainer and multiple world-record holder who is famous for consuming indigestible materials and objects including glass bottles, a bicycle, a television, and an airplane.
Human Marvels
A Web archive of peculiar people
“presenting factual, plausible and sometimes near impossible prodigious, curious and eccentric human beings who stand as examples of the sheer variety of humankind.”
British Children’s Show’s X-Rated Episode
Rainbow was a popular British children’s show, which from 1972 to 1992 was considered the Sesame Street of the U.K.
In 1979 the show's cast and crew made a special X-rated, sexual-innuendo packed edition for the Thames TV staff Christmas tape, sometimes referred to as
the "Twangers" episode.
The Political Cartoons
and Advertising Artworks of Dr. Seuss
A Man Who Has Eaten a Bicycle, a Television,
and an Airplane
Monsieur Mangetout is a French entertainer and multiple world-record holder who is famous for consuming indigestible materials and objects including glass bottles, a bicycle, a television, and an airplane.
A Gallery of U.S. Propaganda Leaflets Dropped over Afghanistan and Iraq
Apparently 7th graders have been drafted into service, creating the graphics for the US military’s psychological operations unit’s propaganda leaflets.
30 Strangest Deaths in History
Flea-Circus Links
Get info, see flea-circus videos online, find a flea circus in your area, etc.
Oh, the Things You Can Buy in a Japanese Vending Machine
London Skylon Links
For a few short years in the early 1950s a 300-foot-high futuristic spire named “The Skylon” was a signature feature of the London skyline.
Apparently 7th graders have been drafted into service, creating the graphics for the US military’s psychological operations unit’s propaganda leaflets.
30 Strangest Deaths in History
Flea-Circus Links
Get info, see flea-circus videos online, find a flea circus in your area, etc.
Oh, the Things You Can Buy in a Japanese Vending Machine
London Skylon Links
For a few short years in the early 1950s a 300-foot-high futuristic spire named “The Skylon” was a signature feature of the London skyline.
Porn Movies Based on Classic TV Shows and Films
Titty Titty Gang Bang, Saturday Night Beaver, On Golden Blonde, Guess Who Came at Dinner, I Cream of Genie, Ball in the Family, An Officer and His Gentleman, Throbin Hood, and many more.
Tiny Plastic People
An amusing street art/photography project involving very tiny,
very busy, hand-painted people left throughout London to fend for themselves.
The World's Most Interesting Bus Stop
This strangely beautiful yet flawed bus stop in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, is the world's largest building made completely of synthetic materials.
The Communist Manifestoon
Manifestoon is a 10-minute film in which voice-over excerpts of The Communist Manifesto are cleverly animated with snippets of Golden Age Hollywood cartoons.
Titty Titty Gang Bang, Saturday Night Beaver, On Golden Blonde, Guess Who Came at Dinner, I Cream of Genie, Ball in the Family, An Officer and His Gentleman, Throbin Hood, and many more.
Tiny Plastic People
An amusing street art/photography project involving very tiny,
very busy, hand-painted people left throughout London to fend for themselves.
The World's Most Interesting Bus Stop
This strangely beautiful yet flawed bus stop in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, is the world's largest building made completely of synthetic materials.
The Communist Manifestoon
Manifestoon is a 10-minute film in which voice-over excerpts of The Communist Manifesto are cleverly animated with snippets of Golden Age Hollywood cartoons.
Caravaggio’s Killer Serve
The great Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio murdered three people over the course of his life. The most harrowing of these homicides occurred during a tennis match, when he provoked a heated dispute with his opponent, "a likeable young man" named Ranuccio Tomassoni, then proceeded to beat him to death right there on the court.
Morphing Muses
A hypnotic morphing slideshow of 500 years of female portraits in Western art
World’s First Fascist Squirrel
Public Gore-Fests in Elizabethan England
Execution was a popular spectator sport in Elizabethan England and involved sizeable quantities of gratuitous violence
and sadism.
Vaudeville Links
Links to vaudeville videos online, info, history, etc.
The great Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio murdered three people over the course of his life. The most harrowing of these homicides occurred during a tennis match, when he provoked a heated dispute with his opponent, "a likeable young man" named Ranuccio Tomassoni, then proceeded to beat him to death right there on the court.
Morphing Muses
A hypnotic morphing slideshow of 500 years of female portraits in Western art
World’s First Fascist Squirrel
Public Gore-Fests in Elizabethan England
Execution was a popular spectator sport in Elizabethan England and involved sizeable quantities of gratuitous violence
and sadism.
Vaudeville Links
Links to vaudeville videos online, info, history, etc.
Male Lactation
Men can induce lactation by having their nipples massaged and sucked over a long period of time.
Create Your Own Life-Sized Ewok Village
Step 1) Buy a bunch of wooded, sphere shaped living structures.
Step 2) Hang them from trees.
Croatia’s Neo-Fascist Rock Concerts
Attended by right-wing teens, prominent politicians, and celebrities alike. Links, info, and scary
Nuremberg rally-esque photos.
Topsy
Topsy was a Coney Island circus elephant electrocuted to death before a crowd of 1500 spectators in a sadistic publicity stunt produced by Thomas Edison.
See footage of the execution and learn more about this tragic story.
Big Mary
Big Mary was a circus elephant hung to death by a rail yard crane in front of 5,000 spectators in Erwin, Tennessee in 1916.
Learn more, see photo.
Men can induce lactation by having their nipples massaged and sucked over a long period of time.
Create Your Own Life-Sized Ewok Village
Step 1) Buy a bunch of wooded, sphere shaped living structures.
Step 2) Hang them from trees.
Croatia’s Neo-Fascist Rock Concerts
Attended by right-wing teens, prominent politicians, and celebrities alike. Links, info, and scary
Nuremberg rally-esque photos.
Topsy
Topsy was a Coney Island circus elephant electrocuted to death before a crowd of 1500 spectators in a sadistic publicity stunt produced by Thomas Edison.
See footage of the execution and learn more about this tragic story.
Big Mary
Big Mary was a circus elephant hung to death by a rail yard crane in front of 5,000 spectators in Erwin, Tennessee in 1916.
Learn more, see photo.
