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It’s the time of year where I start to get random Christmas cards from co-workers, second cousins, in-laws, and bank employees. Perfectly staged family...
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It’s the time of year where I start to get random Christmas cards from co-workers, second cousins, in-laws, and bank employees. Perfectly staged family...
Vancouver has a huge park right off of the city center, Stanley Park. As a kid, I saw it as the home of the...
The story of the Ruth Snyder Execution photograph and how “ruthless Ruth” became the subject of the most famous tabloid picture ever taken and the crime that shocked the nation. The room was cold, and the air was palpable as Ruth Snyder walked into...
People have always been fascinated by the strange and weird, and this fascination found a thriving home in the circus sideshows of the past...
From the Dionysian rituals through to military chants; from gospel choirs to protest marches; from out the lips of the beautiful, the bad and...
All kinds of shit happens in the big city, and especially back in the day New York City was a different beast! Check out...
This time of year I don’t decorate my house, I don’t listen to Christmas music and drink hot apple cider by a roaring fire every...
via:Â Res Obscura In a previous post, I touched on the phenomenon of “cannibal medicine” in early modern Europe. It turns out that it was...
In his lifetime, Peter Christopherson was many things – a member of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and COIL, but was also a visual artist...
Happy Holidays to everybody! Despite being a staunch atheist and hater of rampant consumerism, I have fond memories of Christmas time and I am...
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861) was one of the great masters of Japanese woodblock printing and painting the ukiyo-e style. Some of his best known work...
