Are you tired of throwing the same old costume party on Halloween? Want to astonish your friends and neighbors with a more arcane celebration? Try partying like a Victorian with an unrolling soiree.
Grave robbing and defiling a corpse, what could possibly go wrong?
Anything scary happening this Monday morning, Deadsplinters?
What ISN’T scary!?!?
Seriously, Groundhog Day could have been a horror movie if it was on a Monday instead of Tuesday.
The hot Puerto Rican guy who was sent up to my apartment to deliver the monthly wine consignment. [EDIT: N
I give up. I meant my edit to say “Not that anything frisky went on but a boy can dream.”
This is an interesting article on ethics debates still going on:
https://undark.org/2021/06/23/thorny-ethics-displaying-egyptian-mummies/
It’s not just around mummies, either. The Irish National Museum has the remains of people who were thrown in bogs in ancient times, and there has been a fair amount of wrestling over what is the right thing to do.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-20021790.html
https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/files/heritage_outlook_winter_2006_spring_2007_2mb.pdf
We’ve got the same problem here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/us/native-american-remains-university-of-north-dakota.html
We’re disgusting.
Who are the real monsters or s a cliché for a reason.
Typing while I grocery shop doesn’t work very well. What I meant to say was the who are the real monsters trope is a cliché for a reason.
My wife wanted me to go to the “Bodies” exhibit with her. I could see the fascination for her being a medical professional but I had NO interest in that!
I understand her interest but I’m with you. No thanks.
My wife is reading a book called Stiff right now for the book club she was summarily handed as part of work. She didn’t get to pick the book, she just has to pick up where the other librarian left off and run the book club.
The details what happens to bodies donated to science. Many of them are dismembered and distributed for various purposes. One scene she described was a medical school specializing in plastic surgery, with rows of decapitated heads sitting on trays for the students to practice on.
That seems aggressive for a book club!
It’s kind of weird. The new system where my wife works is very … lackadaisical. It’s a lot more of the government worker cliche where everyone tries to do as little as possible. And since my wife did everything at her old library, she doesn’t exactly fit the that employee mold. And of course, the higher ups realize, hey, we’ve got a live one here, so she’s gotten one promotion and will soon get moved to full time (hopefully).
But my point is that the librarian formerly in charge of the book club hated doing it. So our theory is she chose awful books to run it into the ground. Which pretty much succeeded, and then they came to my wife and said, hey, this used to be one of our biggest clubs and now it’s down to 2 people. So my wife said, of course, yeah, I’ll do it. But she’s stuck with the other woman’s book choices because they were already advertised and bought.
She’ll get to go to normal stuff in January. But for now she’s got to play this out.
My suggestion last year for my book club was I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara, so I’m not really one to talk.
I knew someone whose family member wanted to donate her body to science and there was so much bullshit involved in the process she ended up not doing it. And they wanted her to pay to “donate” it.
I always wanted to see that exhibit but couldn’t bring myself to because of the questionable ethics surrounding it. The donors didn’t know their bodies would be on tour for mass entertainment/consumption.
Is that still going on? I saw that like a decade ago or more somewhere in New York, and then again at the old, failing, pre-gentrified South Street Seaport maybe eight years ago. I wonder if they swap out the exhibits.
Just missed it!
https://www.socalmag.com/bodies-exhibit-2-0-in-santa-monica/