April 2010
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Better Late… →
inky:
Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan.
Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day,...
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WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY
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Grant Morrison's 'Doom Patrol'
One of my favourite series of comic books.
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'Stardust', I like Ella Fitzgerald's version.
“Sometimes I wonder Why I spend the lonely nights Dreaming of a song The melody haunts my reverie…”
Plush safe he think.
– Jean-Michel Basquiat
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26 stages of death →
funeral:
Moment of Death: 1) The heart stops 2) The skin gets tight and grey in colour 3) All the muscles relax 4) The bladder and bowels empty 5) The body’s temperature will typically drop 1.5 degrees F. per hour unless outside environment is a factor. The liver is the organ that stays warmest the longest, and this temperature is used to establish time of death if the body is found within that...
March 2010
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