November 2011
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weadude asked: Saw you said that you spent your childhood in New Milford. I spent mine in Sherman! Fun fact about Sherman: Arshile Gorky (famous painter) had a house in Sherman and hung himself in his home. He's buried in the North Cemetery. But as for my question: do you know anything about decapitated heads retaining sight after separation from the body?
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Exquisite Corpses: The Art of the Cadaver Tomb →
From the ever-great Atlas Obscura:
Something strange happened to funeral monuments in the 15th century. Across France, Italy and England the long standing practice of carving recumbant effigies in poses of gentle rest was replaced by depictions of rotting corpses.
Read more.
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Updates
So, I’m clearly feeling like sitting around in my jammies this weekend and not burning calories: I’ve made some updates to the site. Made things more personal, perhaps.
New category:
Personal Details & Opinions
And two new pages:
About Me, About This Sites I Love
The “Sites I Love” page I’ve been meaning to add for forever. For folks who are looking for...
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Grief and Solemnity
“I ventured to look into the coffin.” I live for details like this.
Also: An entire book about exhumations? Must have.
lareviewofbooks:
COLIN DICKEY on the American way of death. Flea © Greg Colson 2010 Elliptical Models Courtesy of the artist and Kayne Griffin Corcoran
Michael Kammen Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials University of Chicago Press, 2010....
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Me and Death
This blog belies my real relationship with its subject matter. Despite all you’ve seen here, I don’t like death.
It’s probably time for me come out about a few things:
I’ve never seen a dead body. (That’s not counting bog bodies and mummies in museums.)
I have been fascinated with death — particularly its physical aspect — since childhood. Before I...
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WWI Grave Find Tells Story Germans Want To Forget →
The tomb, poignant and grisly, sheds light on the lives of the soldiers who died in explosions from heavy shells that penetrated the tunnel.
“It’s a bit like Pompeii,” Michaël Landolt, the French archaeologist leading the dig, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “Everything collapsed in seconds and is just the way it was at the time. This is an extraordinary find.”
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