Sky burial

I found some great pictures of a Tibetan sky burial. I have read quite a bit about it but usually there are pretty heavy restrictions about photography, so up until now, I hadn’t seen much in the way of photos. Maybe this was a little more lax because it wasn’t in a Buddhist temple.

Cottontail codpiece- UNNNNGHHUHHHGH, so soft

I’ve been tanning a rabbit hide that I inherited from Mr. Walkway’s freezer. It was the first one I’ve attempted, so it was definitely a test run. I salted it and went through the chemical-treatment process twice (which is called “poisoning” in the taxidermy books I have). The hide dried out really quickly, which isn’t surprising. It came from a cottontail that was field-dressed, so it was skinned without having any eventual use for the fur in mind. Also, I recently learned that rabbits have really thin hide to begin with, so they’re generally not good for just starting out with tanning/mounting, etc.
So, anyhow, I have been mulling over what to do with the hide once I got it to the desired softness. So I just started sewing it up today, inside out like you might sew a pillow. The result is something that is a perfectly shaped codpiece. I had thought jokingly of that previously, but after patching the holes, and trimming the parts of hide that weren’t usable, it worked out pretty nicely.
The hide itself is beautiful, and I tried it on (that’s the tail on top). It’s super-comfortable and perfectly-shaped. I think I am going to get some straps so it’s actually wearable, though I don’t know when I’d ever actually wear it. It is sure to get me kicked out and probably arrested anywhere it appears in public.
Squirrel season starts October 2nd, so I’m going to try for a mount next time.

Human Teletubbies

Ecstatic truth

This video is so awesome:

Vamp feelings

Slow Loris rules

Looking forward to seeing all my henchmen

Congratulations, rape giant!

ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM

Mastodon 06

I found this footage from when Mastodon played here on my birthday a couple years ago. Keep an eye out for an enraged sex giant in the crowd.

Nietzsche

I was goofing around tonight and came across this. I want to watch it again when I have more time- it seems like a very fair treatement of the guy, acknowledging his frailty and also his enormous philosophical contribution against christianity.
I don’t like the narrator’s voice, though.