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all this useless beauty

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Carousel to nowhere 

 

Is it better to have been loved and lost, than never to have been loved at all? These sites, galleries of photographs of an abandoned Japanese amusement resort (click on the pictures for more) raise some intriguing questions about the nature of beauty and loss.

roller coaster in fog

If we’re being honest it seems pretty clear that, had we seen this place when it was going strong, we would probably (as the jaded grownups we have become) consider this to be a pretty tacky amusement park, which is a bit like calling something a pretty water-resistant duck. Amusement parks are amusing, but they are rarely sophisticated or ironic. And they are rarely beautiful.

But now look.

roller coaster

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Cthulhu versus the World: a YouTube Masterpiece

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In which the Great Cthulhu discovers the joys of pure evil,
and puts paid to a panda over pounding punk. 

“Wha? Batman? This doesn’t even make sense!“

Like that’s bad.

The Miskatonic Acid Test

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I totally have to see this. It looks awful!

It’s HP Lovecraft a-go-go in “The Miskatonic Acid Test“, the first feature from American Entropy Productions. It’s 1969, and cosmic horror infects a psychedelic rock “happening” in witch-haunted Arkham, Mass. It’s a zonked out brew of poetry, philosophy, cosmic horror, and 60’s-style acid rock; probably the first horror movie that’s more heavily influenced by the Monkees’ “Head” than by George Romero… This is the official trailer.

Cthulhu chandelier

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Me waaaaaantssssss. Me wants baaaad.

tentacled glory above, and below nothing but darkness and the gnashing of teeth

Above, there is a blaze of glory
and beneath,
nothing but darkness,
and the gnashing of teeth.

Kewl.

how to turn a man gay

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I’ve had enough of boring old to-dos. How to wash your hair. How to save money on groceries. How to train a wolverine to fetch. Whatever. This, however, is truly different.

From Shakespeare’s Sister, via Pharyngula. How to use your uterus to turn men gay! Click through to their site to read the whole thing; the only question left unanswered is, does the disco ball also function as an IUD?

“No woman in the history of politics has used her womb like Nancy Pelosi.” — Harvard Law School student and conservative misogynist douchebag Ben Shapiro, who obviously doesn’t understand that use of the womb is an important part of generating the radical gay agenda that is shot out of feminazi cooters, so of course she has to use her womb a lot. Duh.

I’m sort of breaking the Feminazi Cooter League‘s code of secrecy to do this, but let me just illustrate how the process works, to clear up any confusion:

Is the disco ball an IUD too? That would be awesome!