"We were deep in the clutches of a weeklong absinthe binge when the Divine Hand of Brilliance touched us in an inappropriate place. When this vision came, we knew we must create a haven for all the sinister crafters of the world. No more would we be cowed into silence by cheerful scrapbook stickers. Never again would we be forced to gleefully execute a sweater of intarsia puppies. The green fairy had blessed us with an exotic vision we were powerless to deny. We madly scrambled for pen and paper with which to compose our opus. Finding none, we took up our knitting needles and carved text into the walls. With an old tube of Vamp we illustrated our glorious creation. Upon release from the hospital, we returned to our lives with renewed direction and embarked upon this project with the fervor of a snake-kissing Pentecostal who has an anti-venom kit."

"Linda Kay, 31, was due to be arraigned Wednesday for improper disposition of human remains...officers responded to a report of a man wanting to kill himself with a hammer, but instead discovered a hand inside a jar filled with formaldehyde on a dresser in a bedroom. Six human skulls were found in an upstairs bedroom..."

"Perhaps we are 'sell outs' as we put fashion aside for the sake of our profession, but I like to see these 'corporate Goths' as being intelligent enough to know when to adapt to one's surroundings to take advantage of the benefits the mundane world can offer. After all, looks alone does not make a Goth."

"Until the day you die and your soul is mine, your body is yours. Just as my government will not take the lives of our citizens, it will also give up the right to control our bodies. When I become president, the government will no longer tell you what you can or cannot consume..."

"Send naked women into battle."

"Amendment II

You can kill each other with whatever weaponry you want, but in the long run, your ass still belongs to me."

"...we're dedicated to bringing consumers healthy, certified organic animals at wholesale prices. Whether you're getting a pet lizard for your son or a dozen Doberman flank steaks for a SuperBowl party, you won't find lower priced animals anywhere else that are better suited for Pets or Food..."

"My most recent exhibition came to me in a dream as I rode the subway. I imagined everyone on the subway as floating faces guided by the motion of the train. This oddly comical vision was the inspiration for "SWARM", an interactive installation where scores of strange insect like creatures, made from doll parts, floated and bounced throughout the gallery."

"Oddly enough, one thing Israel and Lebanon actually have in common besides hurling artillery at each other is that they've produced some pretty solid society-hating Black Metal as of late."

"Snipes plays Kaos [in the in-production film, Gallowwalker], the mysterious son of a nun who breaks her oath to ensure his survival. Kaos is a killer, but his mother's act brings a curse that re-animates the bodies of his victims, and naturally what they'd like is revenge. What goes around, comes around, and soon there's a zombie gang after him. Kaos gets help, though, in the form of a warrior sidekick named Fabulos."

"8. Mortiis, Smell of Rain (see accompanying photo #1)
Not quite black metal - more like elf folk metal. Mortiis looks like a Lord of the Rings extra taking a break before they shot the Helm's Deep battle. What a fucking goof. And you know five minutes before this picture, he was in his shitty car applying his own makeup, yelling at the photographer in Finnish, or Elvish, 'Hold on! My ears aren't sticking!'"

A) Beautiful
B) Hysterical
C) Confusing

"Anna was the first to experience strange things. The girl put the skull near her bed before going to sleep. Anna said that she dreamed of the life of Indians who had lived thousands years ago, and the girl could describe the dream in detail...strange dreams haunted the girl each time she had the skull near her bed. New dreams brought more new details about the life of Indians, details unknown even to scientists."

"First, art critic Frank Dordland started investigating the strange skull. After a closer investigation, he discovered that the skull had a complicated system of lenses, prisms, and channels, creating unusual optical effects. The investigator was surprised to discover no signs of processing on the skull's perfectly polished surface. They couldn't be seen even with a microscope. Frank Dordland even addressed Hewlett-Packard, the famous company that specialized in crystal oscillators at that time, for a competent examination of the crystal.

The results were shocking not only for the scientist himself. The research by Hewlett-Packard in 1964 in a special laboratory revealed that the skull had been made long before the first civilizations appeared in that part of America where the skull was found. In addition, rock crystal of such perfect quality couldn't be found in that area. The most amazing thing was that the ancient skull weighing 5.13 kg, 203.4 mm long and 125.4 wide had been made of a whole crystal. This fact contradicted the laws of physics."

"A kind of a prism was found at the back bottom of the skull; any ray of light that strikes the eye-sockets is reflected there. If you look into the eye-sockets, you may see the whole room reflected."

"Hillbillies
Movies: The Hills Have Eyes, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of Wax, Motel Hell, House of 1000 Corpses
It's really unfair to assume every person who lives in a dilapidated shack, at the bottom of a hill, with no teeth, bare feet, one eye, a bunch of rotting chicken carcasses instead of a carpet, and a lampshade made of human skin is some kind of weirdo. Erase the hate, people."

"One stall will house the CRANK GHOST and the cubby hole between stalls will be where LOTHAR the two headed dragon sits."

"Katy and Austin work on burying the mattress in the SWAMP ROOM. They did such a good job! Everytime we walked in there we heard -- "Oh Sh*t!" because people kept forgetting it was in there! It really does feel like you're walking in a swamp!"

"You can see in these pics that we've already put the carpeting down in the BLOODY BRIDE room..."

"Starting next week, in the unlikeliest of places, a real witch school will open its doors to the public in a place known as the Sweet Corn Capital of the World.

After almost five years of existence on the Internet, Witch School is expected to operate under normal business hours in the town of Hoopeston, Ill., about 100 miles south of Chicago.

The school is dedicated to educating the public in Wicca, a neo-Pagan religion that incorporates nature and magic into its theology. Until now the school has existed almost entirely on the Internet."

TIM: Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.
ARTHUR: Where?
TIM: There!
ARTHUR: What, behind the rabbit?
TIM: It is the rabbit!
ARTHUR: You silly sod!
TIM: What?
ARTHUR: You got us all worked up!
TIM: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit.
ARTHUR: Ohh.
TIM: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on.
ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
TIM: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide; it's a killer!
GALAHAD: Get stuffed!
TIM: He'll do you up a treat mate!
GALAHAD: Oh, yeah?
ROBIN: You mangy scots git!
TIM: I'm warning you!
ROBIN: What's he do, nibble your bum?
TIM: He's got huge, sharp-- eh-- he can leap about-- look at the bones!
ARTHUR: Go on, Bors. Chop his head off!
BORS: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up!
[ Rabbit flies at Bors' throat and savages him to death ]
ROBIN: I done it again!
TIM: I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well, it's always the same. I always tell them--
ARTHUR: Oh, shut up!
TIM: Do they listen to me?

"Geek Dead Thing of the Day: The technology called WebDAV is short for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning"; basically, it's an alternative to ftp for file transfer (see webdav.org). Of course, for the true geek that wants a Unix command-line way of doing WebDAV, there's a solution. It's called "cadaver". It's not brains-in-a-can, but if this isn't ILDT-worthy, what is?"

"...and when Barbadian coastguard officers boarded it, they made a gruesome find. The boat's phantom crew was made up of the desiccated corpses of 11 young men, huddled in two separate piles in the small cabin."

"Nurse Hatchet's creepy, gummy treats will keep you in stitches. Each individually pouched "body part" is a delicious gummy treat...lemon-lime flavored feet, orange flavored noses, fruit punch flavored teeth, berry flavored tongues, and banana flavored fingers."

"This invention involves a device, referred to herein as a "cabinet," which provides physical and biochemical support for an animal's head which has been "discorporated" (i.e., severed from its body). This device can be used to supply a discorped head with oxygenated blood and nutrients, by means of tubes connected to arteries which pass through the neck. After circulating through the head, the deoxygenated blood returns to the cabinet by means of cannulae which are connected to veins that emerge from the neck."

"It's a Nike shoe stapled together with human flesh, twitching...

Other than simply being twisted, this piece comments on issues of sweatshop labour and..."

"Squeeze the Skull Horror Ball and unimaginable horrors "creep" out of the eyeballs, come to life, drip with bloodlike droplets. Let go, and the insides slowly retract inside the skull. Oooo! Yech!!"

"4:47am... listening to.... the Love Boat theme??... still drawing zombies... you know the rest"

"It really must be the happiest place on Earth, when even the Goths can’t stop smiling." - Claire Luna, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

"Don’t let anyone tell you that the Age of Irony is over. It’s alive and well in California, and here’s the proof:
Goth kids love Disneyland." - Chuck Klosterman, Spin Magazine Story Writer

"Who could resist the fun – the gloomiest people in the universe in The Happiest Place on Earth? - Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly, Writer

"I just want to celebrate life by saying to hell with death,' said the artist, 'What better way of saying that than by taking the ultimate symbol of death and covering it in the ultimate symbol of luxury, desire and decadence? The only part of the original skull that will remain will be the teeth. You need that grotesque element for it to work as a piece of art. God is in the details and all that."

"My mom had AOL, but on February 21st, she was killed in a car accident. On February 23rd, I called AOL to cancel her service... After explaining that my mother was killed in the accident, the rep told me that he was sorry that my mom was unhappy with the service. He then suggested lowering the number of hours per month to reduce the bill. I said "she was killed." The rep then said, "I understand what you are saying, I'm just trying to come up with a solution." He actually got snippy with me. AOL finally told me that my mom would have to call and cancel the service herself (even after I provided the coroner's ID number for the incident, etc.). I told them that if they could reach her that they should let me know how they did it..."

"Satan is real
Working in spirit
You can see him and hear him in this world everyday

Satan is real
Working with power
He can tempt you and lead you astray"

"Hufu is designed to resemble, as humanly possible, the taste and texture of human flesh. If you've never had human flesh before, think of the taste and texture of beef, except a little sweeter in taste and a little softer in texture. Contrary to popular belief, people do not taste like pork or chicken."