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Taboo Taxidermy

Rogue Taxidermy A Case of Curiosities Experimental Taxidermy in amazing 3D! *** I dedicate this month's entry to my brother, Dan, who gave me the wonderful "Magic Mummified Miniature Mystery Hand" you see pictured above as a Christmas gift. This exquisite piece of art is a Custom Creature original by rogue taxidermist, Sarina Brewer.
January 3, 2005Posted inWeird Sites of the Month
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Left Behind

This collage appears in Eye Contact, the literary magazine I advise at Seton Hill University where I teach. The theme for this particular issue of the magazine was "truth." I clipped words and phrases out of Weekly World News; when I began, I thought I'd build a collage of freaky and bizarre headlines, but I found myself instead pulling out the more "normal" terms and assembling them in an abnormal way. The "shout out" style of the excessive typography, I'm hoping, renders everything strangely familiar. I believe the "left behind" phrase at the center originally referred to that whole "Left…
December 10, 2004Posted inWeblog Exclusive