All I know is that its highly unlikely that a normal (i.e., not related to Lady Deathstrike) human being could, over time, scratch a hole into their brain cavity using their fingernails (which, again, even over time, would be worn down to nubs in the face of bone) and cause inexplicably green brain matter to leak out. Especially since in order to leak out, it would have to be either melting from high fever, or under pressure due to internal swelling, and either way she’d likely be unconscious, if not dead. Again, the wound probably just got badly infected (with staph or similar) and pustulent, which is a perfectly good reason to send someone to the hospital, especially if they have HIV. Its even possible that between the infection, the external damage, and the HIV, the virus managed to make it to her brain, or trigger a heavy fever, causing the apparent brain damage.
M was probably just misunderstanding or misremembering the incident, which is understandable given the stress she was probably under at the time. Unless I see a medical chart with notes saying “perforation of the skull”, or perhaps a particularly impressive episode of Mythbusters, I’m not buying it.
Comment by Joe Shadows — June 25, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
While Mr. Shadows and I may have our differences — for example: he thinks me a gullible fool and I am fairly certain that he is a Communist — we can both agree that the only way to settle this is to get the Mythbusters on this conundrum post-haste. Hopefully they can construct an itch scratching machine, comprised of a hand made from ballistics jelly and bone connecting to a large motor, designed for the specific purpose of creating a perforation in a severed pig’s head.
Heather Longton and Ellen Noble’s first prize winning photograph for a contest held by online shoe emporium, Irregular Choice. I imagine that, moments after this shot was taken, the porcine fellow looked up at the half-clothed nymphet, then promptly dropped his snout and began gnawing her foot off.
Behold Le Cochon Danseur (The Dancing Pig) from 1907, a short film of someone dressed in a shuddersome pig costume, dancing. He also appears to be enamored with a delightful young woman with whom he shares a sado/masochistic relationship in which he both fawns over her and gropes her and she embarrasses him by stripping him of his clothing and laughing at his loathsome, nude body. After they have finished dancing they leave the stage, which is when something seemingly distasteful happens. Honestly, I cannot even fathom what is going on at the end, but it is unpleasant.
Harma Heikens’s work combines mutant babies, prepubescent girls, pigs, and Hans Bellmer to create sculptures that elicit admiration for the imagination on display as well as feelings of acute discomfort. Of course, they might also just elicit a cry of “What the fuck!?”
On any given day you can turn on the news, read a feed, or simply walk in the world around you and observe the myriad ways in which our fellow man meet their maker. Freak pig bathing accidents, shampoo bottle intimacy gone horribly wrong, or getting caught in Eliza’s path on all you can eat pork day; all fairly common ways to die, none of which really bring honor to the victim. But to die in the slimy grip of a tentacle, even while suffering the indignity of an octopi’s curious limb, is a death worthy of even the most heroic that stalk the hallowed halls of Valhalla.
Witness the candy deliciousness that is Saturday morning cartoons: creamy, comedy goodness in a sweet, crunchy anime shell!
• FLCL continues its meteoric, guitar wielding, robot spooging, sexually awkward descent into madness, in the second episode, “Firestarter”.
• Some of my earliest and fondest memories of Nickelodeon involve Rocko’s Modern Life. Featured today are two episodes, “No Pain, No Gain” and “Unbalanced Load”. The intor is the version from season two, featuring the talents of The B-52s.
• I am no fan of Seinfeld so I maintain that Duckman is the best work Jason Alexander has ever done. “The Noir Gang” does a fantastic job of incorporating the show’s perverted, foul-mouthed detective and porcine sidekick into a black and white film noir motif.
• If you had told me that a re-boot of Max Fleischer’s Felix the Cat would be worth it, I may have condescendingly sniffed at the idea. However Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat was an amazing cornucopia of oddity and downright weirdness. Two episodes for you: “Phony Phelix” and “The Petrified Cheese” which features a cleverly named shamus named Seamus. “Ok, pally, let me fill you in on the facts. The skinny. The scam. The poop.”
• Paranoia Agent “The Golden Shoes”. Who is Lil’ Slugger? For Yuichi “Ichi” Taira, the most popular kid in school, top of his class in academics and sports, who plans to run for Student Council President, his golden roller blades and red baseball cap are cause for growing concern among his peers, turning his life upside down. Now, paranoid and looking for a way out of this new nightmare, he focuses his attention on foreign transfer student Shogo “Usshi” Ushiyama, convince he is trying to ruin him.
As you watch this video please, feel free to hum the main theme from Terminator 2, it lends ambiance to a clip showing a toy that we want, nay need, desperately, like air or coffee. For anyone who lives in Japan we will accept as many of these as you are able to send. If it helps, we will give you Qais in exchange. He’s slightly used but I would grade him VG+.
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
