Mystery Meat: the Death Erection
Tell me where is fancy bred?In the heart or in the head?How begot, how nourishéd? —William Shakespeare: Merchant of […]
Death Husband Club
I got married when I was young and stupid, and ended up divorced. Tale as old as time. Before that,
Why Funerals Make Us Horny
It’s not easy to talk about. It might seem ghoulish or macabre. It might even make you feel like you’re
Arts and Crafts with the Human Corpse
The human body is 14% bone. Human bones have been used to construct chapels and places of worship, most notably
Black Pineapple: Tropigoth Occasions Upon Which to Get Weird
In 1988, dusty old artgrump Tim Burton gave us the gift that is Beetlejuice: the ultimate vehicle for Michael Keaton’s
The Ghost in My Fifth Grade Class
Juan Carlos was always sick, but we didn’t know what that meant. He had a special breathing treatment machine in
The Mona Lisa of Death Masks
They call her L’Inconnue de la Seine, and no one knows her name but she left behind one of the
We Need a National Memorial for the Covid Dead
There is only one American memorial to the victims of the Great Influenza epidemic of 1918, the so-called Spanish Flu.
Never Leaving Las Vegas
When my grandmother died, she loved three things: scotch, soap operas, and gambling. It’s hard to write a eulogy for
Put On Your Black Lips and Dance the Blues
There are two kinds of black lipsticks in the world. There’s the kind you buy because it’s Halloween and you’re