Elvis's Birthday

The King would have been 75 years old today.



Also, a big happy birthday to the Thin White Duke, Mr. David Bowie.

Gingerdead Man

A baker took some gingerdead dough
And shaped a man from head to toe.















When it was baked, the cookie fled.
Here is what the cookie said:















Run! Run! As fast as you can!
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerdead man!

Beautiful Death

I scored some excellent presents this holiday season, not the least of which were some books I've been highly coveting for quite some time.


BEAUTIFUL DEATH: The Art of the Cemetery by Dean Koontz
Cemeteries are like galleries of the dead, mausoleums and tombstones etched with the intricacy of a sculptor's chisel. Art of the Cemetery is a gorgeous visual journey into some of the most elegant and quaint gravesides around the world. (read more)


THE UNDERTAKING: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
(Thomas) Lynch is the sole funeral director in Milford, Michigan. As such, as he states in his opening, he "buries a couple of hundred of his towns people". It is not, an occasional aside notwithstanding, the technical aspects of his job that lynch focuses on here, however. As the subtitle suggests, it is the living that concern Mr. Lynch, and, in fact, as an undertaker, it is the living, not the dead, he truly serves. For, as he is wont to point out, the dead don't care. (read more reviews)


CEMETERY STORIES: Creepy Graveyards, Embalming Secrets and Life of a Corpse After Death
Famous death rituals including the Odon Festival of the Dead are to be found here as well as tales of mysterious graveside visitors, the stories of gravediggers and even reported sightings of so-called Hellhounds. (read more reviews)

Also scored:
Some chocolate brown Chuck Taylors

Bela Lugosi's Dead

Undead, undead, undead...

Happy Halloween!!!

Go watch Jeepers Creepers. Ignore the stupid name because that s**t rules!

Also, I better get some Trick or Treaters tonight. Last year was a big fail.