Ever since Simone Mareuil had a nasty experience with a razor blade in the surrealist classic Un Chien Andalou, horror movies have always had a special relationship with eyes. Sliced, poked, gouged and occasionally popped out of its socket, the eyeball has become the most vulnerable, and most traumatized, organ in film history. The second film from the Pang brothers cultivates horror by taking eyeball horror to new heights, with a story about a cornea transplant that goes horribly wrong. The Eye recalls the hours of terror of a blind young woman, Mun, who, after recovering her sight thanks to a successful transplant, sees her world turned upside down by the presence of ghosts.
Day: October 26, 2007
Ball fever’s on the brain
Baseball fever, that is, specifically the World Series. Of course, unless it’s “quirky” news, it doesn’t posted here.
It seems some Red Sox fans are going a little batty with World Series fever … orrrrr maybe they just figure baseball is as good an excuse as any to troll for sex on Craigslist. Why should the players get to do all the scoring? Let’s hope that the “Green Monster” isn’t a euphemism for anything.
Don’t think that the other team in the Series is without fault either. If you thought Red Sox fans were bonkers, what about the Colorado Rockies booster who is willing to give up a 25-year strong Playboy collection just to go to one World Series game? Quick, someone get that collection so we can read the articles while that thin Rocky Mountain air is affecting his judgment!
Barbarism or barbering?
Bidders of world, unite! A lock of hair purportedly snipped from the corpse of Che Guevara in 1967 went up for auction recently. The hair, which can only be described as “hair-looking,” fetched $100,000 and was purchased by a 61-year-old man.
His bid was the only one in the auction, and it met the minimum bid. Apparently, Che isn’t as collectible as his T-shirts.
However, being a Marxist, he would hate the fact that his hair became a trophy of ownership by the wealthy. He would probably want the $100,000 to be spread evenly across the country. Take that, commie!
Snakes in a storage unit
Folks, this blog touts the virtues of the brave men and women fighting the War on Animals, we also encourage our readers to help the fight and be ready however they can. One thing we don’t recommend is leaving animals alone for days on end.
Not because we’re worried about the enemy’s welfare, but rather, with no one to guard them, someone else is bound to stumble upon these detainees. Such a case happened in Florida recently, when managers of a storage shed opened up one rented room that was late on payment. They found deadly and exotic snakes.
This could have ended in human injury or loss of human life. Remember: don’t neglect animals, execute them.
Violin haven
Night of the sleeping nude
We’ve all heard about how sleep aids can lead to sleep walking, eating, driving, even having sex. So clearly, it’s not a good idea to take such pills if this kind of thing ends up happening to you. However, a hotel chain in England is having a new problem.
Sleepwalking naked people have increased sevenfold in the past year, mostly dudes, or as they say in England, blokes. As the story suggests, these people may not actually be sleepwalking, they may be some kind of zombie pranksters, bent on disrupting a peaceful English evening. We need to keep that island nation isolated, like in 28 Days Later. The zombie plague must be quarantined!