September 30th, 2007
Glue, shoes and you
Well, it could be diamonds, or it could be soylent green.
Though you could just end up as a museum exibit.
I’m sure you can think of some more, so let’s hear them.
In other News:
The ‘premiere’ of my music video for The Adventures of Loki went down well last night. I’m currently adding a new bit to the site for the videos, you can see it here or you can go and have a look at it on youtube. It’s called My Black Dog.
I do hope you like it.
And now that it’s finished, I should have a bit more time for the comics again. Juggling the two got pretty hectic this month, but worth it nonetheless.
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Wow. that video was….um. Well. great animation, and the music was pretty awesome.
however, mixed together. well, lets talk sarcastically. of course it wasn’t scary, of course i won’t have nightmares and of course i don’t now want to never see a dog, bird or cat again.
nice work anyways Adam. ignore my daft comments, your animations are awesome.
They used to make wallets out of convicted and dissected murderers in England.
I wonder if they made handbags out of dead women?
Thanks Maddie. It’s actually based on Arthur Ransome’s collection of Russian folk tales, mixed in with a few others too. The witch is very much based on Baba Yaga, hence the house on legs.
TUHC, I hope you don’t mind the abbreviation, I wonder if there’s some intentional irony in that, especially for pick-pockets;
Take a wallet make a wallet.
I just read an Alfred Bester book where all the dead people get composted for use on crops. That, and the soylent green thing, really makes you wonder what over population will eventually bring. Me, I think we’ll have a good population crash before it ever comes to something like that. Not cynicism, mind you, just sound ecological theory.
Also, the animation was great. When the legs came out of the house, my mind went: Baba Yaga! Wasn’t expecting here. Very good, Adam. Very good. *clap clap*
Speaking of animation, has any one seen this? http://www.animusfilms.co.uk/separation.html
Worth watching!
I want to be made into fireworks. Then I want to be set off at my memorial service.
golfwidow: Haha! That’s a great idea. Didn’t they launch Gene Roddenberry into space?
I want to be taken to the underground complex at Disney World to be crafted into part of a terrifying animatronic tableau. Then I want my robot zombie body to be unleashed on the world.
Actually, I’ll probably just get cremated, but a guy can dream.
Thanks Roo, that’s a great link… and a great animation.
I agree about the population crash. I watched hundreds of bacterial colonies do the same thing when they had their natural feedback loops disabled. Bloom and bust.
There’s a Modest mouse song with the lyric, ‘Someday someone or something will steal your carbon’. I guess we’re all compost eventually.
And golfwidow, that’s a fantastic use for a corpse – to literally go out with a bang. Top stuff.
Gene Roddenberry: They did, and Scotty too I think…. though I might have just made that up.
And Joseph, if it comes down to it, we’ll steal your cadaver Gram Parsons style and road-trip all the way to Disney… It’ll be like Weekend at Bernies, but funny.
I love the tail on the crocodile shoes.
After I’m dead, they can make
anything they want out of me
because it ceases to be my problem.
We have a shortage of pandas, and china is overpopulated…hmm..solution possible?
If you can find a way to turn dead people into pandas… I think you’ve just created the coolest necromantic spell in D&D ever!!!
I want to be secretly buried in different privately owned gardens. In pieces of course.
Or under somebodies floor boards. I could always go for a poe reenactment.
or maybe i’ll be made into those bloomable tea things! Yes, drop me in hot water, and “SO YOU THOUGHT I WAS DEAD!”
I think I saw somebody wearing crocodile shoes today. Was kind of a shock. No tail, though.
You can be made into a vase after yo die…or has someone already mentioned the glass from your ashes thing?
Wow, Maddie, that’s neat. Haven’t heard of that one.
Is it odd that I want to be composted, and have a tree planted on (above) me? Anyone read Xenocide?
No, it’s not odd Roo. you can also get buried in a cardboard coffin and have a tree instead of a gravestone. better than being composted, eh?
Yeah, theyre’s a company set up that makes vases, or any glassware from peoples ashes. they actually look stunning. which is weird, seeing as they’re made of dead people an’ all.
My mate wanted, when she died, to be stuffed with he holding her two middle fingers up. she was very dissapointed when she found out it illegal to stuff humans..
“No, it’s not odd Roo. you can also get buried in a cardboard coffin and have a tree instead of a gravestone. better than being composted, eh?”
That’s awesome — actually my ideal (though I was thinking burlap sack, personally). Unfortunately, very illegal in the USA. That’s really kosher in the UK? Kudos to you guys!
Also, stuffing people! There was an old story, about an old woman who took boarders and fed them arsenic tea, then stuffed them “for the company.” Any one remember what it was called, or who wrote it? I had to read it for an AP lit class in high-school (I think that makes it like A-levels, sort of…). It was good.
Come to think of it, the old film Arsenic and Old Lace might be loosely based on that story, though much funnier. Ha!
What do you mean it’s illegal? Over here it’s an option for burial. only thing i, you have a tree because we’re not allowed to mark the graves with a gravestone, and i don’t think you can have a proper funeral, just a vicar say a blessing. Weird, you’re not allowed at all, we have strict rules…whats wrong with being buried like that?
oh yes, i know that story…read it in year 8…it’s a little creepy..all her pets were stuffed as well, weren’t they?
That’s the one, stuffed dog, stuffed bird. I’ll have to try looking it up later: it’ll bother me till I figure out what it’s called.
I think it’s a public health concern. You must be cremated, or buried in a sealed, approved coffin that won’t leak. There are a great number of microbes that feed on human corpses that can also infect living people. That’s part of the origins of the grave yard, I think — a way to separate the potentially infectious corpses. So I can kind of understand why it’s not legal, but at the same time, we don’t have the water-treatment issues or the general health-care issues we had even as recent as fifty years ago. I see know harm in it, and a potential lot of good, so long as the ecosystem is treated appropriately. Which is the long way to say: Right on!
On a side note, I find it really interesting that you can’t have a proper funeral if you use the box-and-tree option. Societies are odd things.
Yes, you should look it up..i want to know the name as well now!
Yeah, i suppose you’re right, i don’t entirely see the problem with it either. do it right, it’s fine.
Yeah, they really are…Society. it makes no sense, for something making all the sense in the world…