sunken treasures: aircraft 20,000 leagues under the sea

There’s something inexpressibly eerie about these 60- some-odd photographs of WWII-era planes and ships lying in their watery graves. Truly, the ocean depths are as close as we can get to an extraplanetary experience; this is not our world. We are slow, clumsy intruders blundering our bubbly way from one unspeakably ghostly site to the next, the silent life which teems all around us more alien than any of which fiction has conceived. We do indeed live on a placid isle of ignorance, and it is not meant that we should voyage far.

Sunken Sponges

Sunken Plane

Sunken Ship Stairway

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Daniel Radcliffe is hung like a horse (pic)

head.

Daniel Radcliffe in Equus

Toldja.

Hat tip for the tipoff to With Malice

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Elf You!

And, really, there’s no feeling like it. Go elf yourself!

Cthulhu elf, destroyer of souls

Obviously, this needs the work of a solid retoucher. Is Mariah Carey’s photoshopper free? Mercifully, the one I made last year has been nuked out of existence. My eyestalks have only just recovered!

Don’t shoot me, Santa

Our first Christmas YouTube of the year! And what a heartwarming one it is, too: the Killers, performing a country-tinged “Don’t Shoot Me, Santa.”

“Don’t Shoot Me Santa” may be more “Bad Santa” than “Silent Night,” but what makes this single especially heart-warming is that all the proceeds of the song will go to Bono’s (RED) campaign, which raises money for AIDS in Africa. The single will be available for download through iTunes on World AIDS Day, December 1.

Why, this instant classic would bring a tear to the eye of the most wizened, shriveled heart, and is certainly worthy of taking its place beside such examples of the form as the 12 Days of Bollywood Christmas, A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa, Christmas on Acid, etc!

stolen from Nag on the Lake

Lyrics over the jump

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Sockthulhu!

Sockthulhu

– his diet consists mostly of squirrels, chunky bars, and the souls of the damned

From Kadath in the Cold Waste (via Ecto) comes Sockthulhu! Loathesomely tattooed over his squamous hide with the polychromatic, crawling patterns of Nordic knitwear, Sockthulhu is invulnerable to the brutal winter conditions, utterly unafraid of Ithaqua the Windwalker, and completely machine-washable!

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