Peculiar corpses: "Incorruptibles remaining free of decomposition have baffled scientists to this day. These bodies are discovered in many different environments, including environments that would typically cause an accidental or deliberately preserved corpse to decompose rapidly." The photographed examples seem to all be associated with Christian faith. Hmm. "[At Oratorio di San Lorenzo] in Palermo, however, corpses are treated as characters in a play": The Museum of the Dead, reassuringly less preserved.
posted on May 30, 2008 - View this thread

Four Thousand.
posted on Mar 23, 2008 - View this thread

Frozen Dead Guy Days. Thousands of waving spectators line the streets of Nederland, Colo. (pop. 1,394), as a parade filled with skeletons, helmeted Vikings, pompadoured Elvises and antique hearses makes its way down First Street to mark the beginning of Frozen Dead Guy Days—a celebration that’s part Mardi Gras, part county fair, and all tongue-in-cheek. The 2008 celebration will be held March 7-9.
posted on Feb 23, 2008 - View this thread

Pere Ubu guitarist Jim Jones dead. Jones also played in The electric eels.
posted on Feb 20, 2008 - View this thread

Mixed With Love: The Musical World Of Walter Gibbons: "This tale begins with a skinny white DJ mixing between the breaks of obscure Motown records with the ambidextrous intensity of an octopus on speed. It closes with the same man, sick with Aids and all but blind, fumbling for gospel records as he spins up eternal hope in a fading dusk. In between, Walter Gibbons transformed the art of DJing and marked out the future co-ordinates of remixology."
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - View this thread

A "thriving necropolis" - The North Cemetery in Manila is populated by thousands of families - many living in mausoleums and even making their livings in the service of the dead.
posted on Jan 24, 2008 - View this thread

Hell’s Kitchen duo wheel friend’s corpse around midtown Manhattan to cash his Social Security check.
posted on Jan 10, 2008 - View this thread

Colma, CA is a necropolis created when San Francisco banned burials within the city limits in the late 1800's because of space and public health concerns. A town of 2.2 square miles, 73% is devoted to cemetaries and the dead outnumber the living thousands to one. Buckethead named an album after it. There's a musical about it (sort of). Other necropolises around the world.
posted on Dec 7, 2007 - View this thread

Taxidermia! Animal furniture! Via tanned hides!
posted on Aug 16, 2007 - View this thread

A milestone in the Iraq conflict.
posted on Aug 12, 2007 - View this thread

Tommy Makem has passed. May a craic wake follow. Tommy Makem, he of the Clancy Brothers, and solo fame, has died of lung cancer. He will be missed. Raise a pint and sing a wee bit in his honor.
posted on Aug 2, 2007 - View this thread

[NewsFilter] Jerry Falwell was found unconscious in his office today and has since died. Exactly what did they mean by "heart challenges" ?
posted on May 15, 2007 - View this thread

Disco cellist Arthur Russell is the subject of a new documentary. MP3s for those who don't know him: Sidebar here, here, here (photo may be NSFW), more here.
posted on May 3, 2007 - View this thread

Still lifes of dead animals.
posted on Apr 4, 2007 - View this thread

Nearby residents didn't seem too upset. No one claimed it was the work of aliens or a secret cult. 250 animal carcases dumped. Included coyotes, dogs, cats cows, the usual stuff. "I'm a little concerned about it,""Stuff like that happens," she shrugged. But the folks in the forums think otherwise and have opinions as to what should happen to the deed doers and the cause of their actions.
posted on Mar 27, 2007 - View this thread

The 50 Craziest Pop Stars Ever - unsurprisingly, there is some crossover with the 50 Most Awesomely Dead Rock Stars.
posted on Feb 25, 2007 - View this thread

Barbaro is dead. He was a horse. A horse with fans. Enjoy some fan videos. [mostly via]
posted on Jan 29, 2007 - View this thread

James Brown ...just died
posted on Dec 25, 2006 - View this thread

Adios Viejo! Pinochet dies!
posted on Dec 10, 2006 - View this thread

Blood-painting the inside of your car has got to suck. Ever wonder what happens when you hit a moose? Hint: it appears worse to your car than hitting a kangaroo. (warning, if you can't stand the sight of dead animals [even when they look cute in deathly repose], stay away)
posted on Oct 2, 2006 - View this thread

Osama bin Dead for a month? PARIS (Reuters) - A French regional newspaper quoted a French secret service report on Saturday as saying that Saudi Arabia is convinced that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan last month.
posted on Sep 23, 2006 - View this thread

Sven Nykvist leaves us. A master at the subtle manipulation of light, the multiple academy award winner and longtime Ingmar Bergman collaborator (including Persona, and the Through a Glass Darkly/Winter Light/The Silence trilogy) has passed away at 83.
more obits [1] [2] more about him [1] [2]
posted on Sep 21, 2006 - View this thread

Sam Brown's powerbook lies a-mouldering in the grave. (Via Daring Fireball.)
posted on Sep 20, 2006 - View this thread

"Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." Ann Richards, former democratic governor of Texas, has passed away from esophageal cancer. She was 73.
posted on Sep 14, 2006 - View this thread

"Life is wise to deceive us," he once wrote, "for had it told us from the start what it had in store for us, we would refuse to be born." --Naguib Mahfouz, RIP --and more from when he won the Nobel in 1988
posted on Aug 30, 2006 - View this thread

Casper the Friendly Ghost video One of the oddest animated characters still popular since the 1940's, Casper the Emotionally Needy Dead Boy continues to elicit uneasiness and distress in viewers. On the other hand, his catchy theme song* has inspired some*. *warning: sound
posted on Aug 17, 2006 - View this thread

My post-mortem to-do checklist, so far: 1. Study marine biology. 2. Accessorize my hot, wealthy widow. 3. Relay a few spooky telegrams to my spooky new friends. 4. Try to look as suspicious as possible. And that's even before rigor mortis sets in!
posted on Aug 8, 2006 - View this thread

"Good food, cold beer and pretty girls never go out of style." Robert H. Brooks, the 69-year-old Chairman of the 425-restaurant chain Hooters, has gone tits up has passed away.
posted on Jul 17, 2006 - View this thread

The Internet Before its Time. Telidon was a novel "two-way TV" system that debuted in Canada in 1978. It used NAPLPS, a basic vector-graphics protocol, for presentation and operated over a 1200 bps modem. It was never a commercial or technological success, but I was 10, it was 1981 and I was playing hangman... ONLINE.
posted on Mar 30, 2006 - View this thread

Buck Owens 'Hee Haw' country star dies at 76
posted on Mar 25, 2006 - View this thread

Buck Owens 'Hee Haw' country star dies at 76
posted on Mar 25, 2006 - View this thread

RIP Baruchito. The flagship hamster of Baruchito's homeCage has passed away after struggling with the stress of a flea infection and the medication applied to it. Baru was just a couple of months shy of three years -- which is a venerable old hamster age. While he may not have been as notorious as certain late pancake-stacked pets, Baru still lived a full life of fuzzy cuteness and aaaawww-inspiring photos. Those of you with hamsters, won't you arrange them now in missing-man formation?
posted on Feb 7, 2006 - View this thread

the dead puppet show - a brief photographic essay for those who are sated with seasonal saccharinity.
posted on Dec 19, 2005 - View this thread

Nipsey Russell, comedic "poet laureate of television," dead
The opposite of pro is con
That fact is clearly seen
If progress means move forward
Then what does Congress mean?
posted on Oct 4, 2005 - View this thread

Barbarism or good ole American capitalism? If you want to see the true face of war, go to the amateur porn Web site NowThatsFuckedUp.com. For almost a year, American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been taking photographs of dead bodies, many of them horribly mutilated or blown to pieces, and sending them to Web site administrator Chris Wilson. In return for letting him post these images, Wilson gives the soldiers free access to his site. American soldiers have been using the pictures of disfigured Iraqi corpses as currency to buy pornography.
posted on Sep 23, 2005 - View this thread

Novelist Saul Bellow is dead. "Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love." Interviews: 1965, 1982, 1987. Partial bibliography. Saul Bellow Society. Wikipedia entry.
posted on Apr 5, 2005 - View this thread

Ivan Noble has died. In a follow-up to this thread, Ivan Noble has died of a brain tumour, aged just 37.
posted on Feb 3, 2005 - View this thread

An Indonesian man was recently jailed for digging up and eating his neighbour's corpse and a Zambian man has been arrested for exhuming, cooking and eating his grandson's corpse. Most cultures have a strong taboo against eating the dead, even indirectly. This taboo has been exploited for intimidation and torture and by artists, writers and even game programmers (the latter resulting in bizarre code documentation). The practice of corpse eating is the subject of ancient myths and is embraced by at least one contemporary religious sect.
posted on Feb 1, 2005 - View this thread

The Dead Letter Office, where you can leave your parting shot to the world. The letters are sad, funny, touching, angry, and insightful. [more]
posted on Jan 23, 2005 - View this thread

Equine Gothic: The Dead Mule as Generic Signifier in Southern Literature of the Twentieth Century
posted on Jan 5, 2005 - View this thread

Arafat reported dead, Palestinian PM denies it. What happens in the Middle East now? I wonder does this cha nge the equation over there? Israeli TV and Haaretz say he's brain dead and not responding to treatment.
posted on Nov 4, 2004 - View this thread

Curious George and the high tension power line : A cartoon story in 9 parts, on how a cute little monkey out of his depth gets turned into a stuffed ashtray holder.
posted on Oct 2, 2004 - View this thread

Death .... online
be sure to check out preservation and decomposition, among other points of interest here....
posted on Sep 21, 2004 - View this thread

Rick James dead. Big red breaking news box at CNN.com, also here. :(
posted on Aug 6, 2004 - View this thread

RIP Francis Crick. The man who helped discover the secret of life is dead.
posted on Jul 29, 2004 - View this thread

Roadside Memorials on the American Highway
posted on Mar 16, 2004 - View this thread

GoogObits - "You're only dead if you're forgotten"
posted on Feb 4, 2004 - View this thread

Logo R.I.P. - A commemoration of dead logotypes.
posted on Dec 19, 2003 - View this thread

Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of Gram Parsons (famous, of course, for the corpse's subsequent adventures). Read a long bio starting here, a small interview, or page through one of his notebooks and the guestbook that sits in his last hotel room.
posted on Sep 19, 2003 - View this thread

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time.
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine, I walk the line.

RIP Johnny Cash. He died last night at 71.
posted on Sep 12, 2003 - View this thread