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3 June 2011 reblog: youmightfindyourself


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14 May 2010


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11 May 2010


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youmightfindyourself:

“I’m thirty years old and I only made $600 last year.” (via skidnee/gerry canavan)

24 April 2010 reblog: youmightfindyourself


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youmightfindyourself:

Sky burial or ritual dissection was once a common funerary practice in Tibet wherein a human corpse is cut in specific locations and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to the elements or the mahabhuta and animals – especially to birds of prey. The location of the sky burial preparation and place of execution are understood in the Vajrayana traditions as charnel grounds. In Tibet the practice is known as jhator (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་; Wylie: bya gtor), which literally means, “giving alms to the birds.”

The majority of Tibetans adhere to Buddhism, which teaches rebirth. There is no need to preserve the body, as it is now an empty vessel. Birds may eat it, or nature may let it decompose. So the function of the sky burial is simply the disposal of the remains. In much of Tibet the ground is too hard and rocky to dig a grave, and with fuel and timber scarce, a sky burial is often more practical than cremation.

If you want to see how it works, click here. Though I warn you, it’s gruesome.

22 April 2010 reblog: youmightfindyourself


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crappytaxidermy:

polly morgan, 2010 armory show

20 April 2010 reblog: crappytaxidermy


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Cha-chinnnng

In 2006, the United States Census Bureau determined that there were nearly 1.5 billion credit cards in use in the U.S. A stack of all those credit cards would reach more than 70 miles into space — and be almost as tall as 13 Mount Everests.

(Source: NY Times, Feb. 23, 2009)

20 April 2010


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zunnny:

insalatadiparole:

Kate Breakey. Limited-edition photogravure from Small Deaths. Kate Breakey & The University of Texas Press (Austin: 2001). (via Collaboration | Brauchli Gravure)

19 April 2010 reblog: insalatadiparole


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zunnny:

Jaroslav Panuška - Death Looking into the Window of One Dying, 1900

15 April 2010 reblog: slaapliedje-deactivated20120208


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What I wish was in my employee handbook

“Well, I had to show a short training video when I was a cashier trainer for a local supermarket. I would always tell the trainees (just after the math lessons) that if a customer gets belligerent, ‘you need to call a manager because you don’t get paid enough to deal with that bullshit!’”

(via the erudite comments section at everythingisterrible)

14 April 2010


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