We don’t always bother with NSFW warnings here at DG, I think it’s part of our charm… HOWEVER, this entry over at Cinema Sewage definitely warrants one. Screen Caps and descriptions of an 80’s exploitation flick called “LAS VEGAS BLOOD BATH”, not for the faint of heart, but kind of hilarious.
The rest are here. Via Unique Daily. BTW, I love this pervy robot, shooting the clothes off that girl, before it kills her.
Whether you’re a Satanist or Libertarian, everyone can get down with some flesh dolls!
According to New Scientist, people with low self esteem who ponder death feel compelled to eat cookies and shop.
Smeesters found that people with low self-esteem shop and eat more after watching death-related news clips.
“One would hope that companies do not exploit this by putting food ads straight after the news,” Smeesters says.
One would also hope that they’d wake up one morning to a gold helicopter stuffed with video games and Cheetos, but like, guess what…ain’t gonna happen.
Yeah. No joke. That’s Angela Lansbury. If you’re impatient, fast forward to 2:50. Via Everything is Terrible.
The BBC reports:
The police in Canada have a gruesome mystery to puzzle over as after a human foot was found washed up on a beach near the west-coast city of Vancouver. It is the fourth such foot to be found on beaches in the area in the past eight months. All four of the feet were wearing socks and running shoes and all four had been in the sea for some time.
Oh, Can-ah-dah! We stand our guard for thee!
So in this series of nicely shot videos, Vice goes looking for the lead singer of a Norwegian Black Metal band, a guy named Gaahl who supposedly tortured someone 15 years ago. The Vice guys proceed to scare the daylights out of themselves, like a bunch of school girls at a slumber party, cuddling underneath a sheet. But watch, and by the fourth and fifth episodes, the Big Bad Boogie Man seems like a libertarian without any friends—which is really what Satanism boils down to, once you strip away all the makeup and angst. (By in large, the commenters buy the ruse.) BTW, Black Metal is what inspired Banks Violette’s church made of salt—the New York Times piece about it, and Black Metal, is excellent.
Look, we all hate tourists. But did you ever stop to think that those tourists also hate themselves? An interesting article in New York Mag:
A surprising number of people who kill themselves in the city come here from out of town, and many appear to come expressly to take their own lives…nonresidents accounted for 274, or 10.8 percent, of the 2,272 suicides in Manhattan during that time…The researchers didn’t look at comparable data from other cities, but, says the study’s lead author, Charles Gross, “One in ten people that commit suicide in Manhattan don’t live here. That’s a big chunk.”
…The glamour of New York can play a role. Just as the city’s glittering, outsize reputation attracts many people for happy reasons, it attracts others for tragic ones. People who are suicidal may want to die in a way that gets them attention they felt they never got when they were alive, says Herbert Hendin, a New York–based psychiatrist and the president of Suicide Prevention International. By this logic, New York can be the perfect stage.
I’ve wondered: Given those scary-ass bridges at MoMA, how long will it be until some ends it all, under the watchful glare of Monet and Twombly?
Image: Bidibidobidiboo by Maurizio Cattelan.
A guide to the artists shortlisted for the 2008 Turner Award.
What ever happened to Mr Gay UK, 1993? Oh yeah, he’s been eating people.
The Vatican says it’s okay to believe in aliens. (What would an Alien Jesus look like?)
A documentary called Cannibal Tours, which follows a bunch of tourists journeying into a fake Heart of Darkness.
An Aussie, busted for buckling up his case of beer and leaving his kid unstrapped.
In Japan, eating innocent people can make you a star.
Image: Cathy Wilkes, one of the new Turner Prize finalists.
YES:
Three Kingwood teens have been arrested and accused of digging up a secluded grave and removing a skull in Humble. According to court documents, they removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a “bong,” to smoke marijuana.
And it’s not even an isolated incident!