Modern Vanitas

And I just really like checking out music videos:

Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart

The Unicorns - Jellybones

The Unicorns - I Don't Want to Die

David Turpin - The Bone Dance

Kidneys!

NYT Quote of the Day

NYT quote of the day: "The Romans, we learn, were a lot like us, but for entertainment purposes they had some signal advantages: They were more violent, they wore skimpier clothes and they had orgies."

Paul Graves Photography

From http://www.paulgravescreative.com/ :

For Real Academic Quote of the Day

"Jacquemont seems to have regarded his silver rectal syringe as of more value than any of his scientific instruments during his various expeditions to north-western India, a perfect symbol of his 'anal' disdain for Indian culture."

- from Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840 by By Nigel Leask

Briefcase of Eyeballs

New York Times Quote of the Day

"Have your partner give you a 'sample.' Catch it in a cup or condom. Add warm lime. Do not warm lime in microwave - warm in hot sink. Then layer egg white (with a pH of 9 to 9.9) on top. You then incubate it for an hour and insert it into yourself with medical syringe. Lay with hips raised." - from Schott's Vocab, Gender Disappointment, 11/23/09

Sounds more like a recipe for no-bake key lime pie.

Real Academic Quote of the Day 2

"Renaissance literature makes much of the pubic forest, the wooded grotto, the mossy hill, and so on."

-Anne Hollander, Seeing Through Clothes

Real Live Academic Quote of the Day

"Also see the conclusion for a brief discussion of the classical sources for barrel erotica."

-Yale Dissertation, 2006