Best Headline Juxtaposition Ever

Original page here.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 03, 2013 - Comments (4)
Category: Newspapers, Religion, Synchronicity, 1900s

Edgar Larkin

I'm always fascinated by scientists who are also bonkers about the supernatural. Even Isaac Newton dabbled in the occult, which was more understandable for his era.

But here's a twentieth-century fellow who led such a double life: Edgar Lucien Larkin.

I'm sure you will want to read all 366 pages of his masterwork to be found here.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 03, 2012 - Comments (4)
Category: Eccentrics, New Age, Religion, Rituals and Superstitions, Science, 1900s

Rain Dance

Everybody wang chung tonight! Er, I mean, everybody rain dance! What moves! I'm sure all Native Americans are proud of this interpretation of their sacred rituals.

I love the fact that they got Darth Vader to do the spoke-word intro.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 29, 2012 - Comments (9)
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Religion, Dance, Native Americans

Sharia Standup

Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 14, 2012 - Comments (4)
Category: Humor, Religion, Wives

Noah’s Ark Found—in Alaska!

The supposed remnants of Noah's ark have been "discovered" in a wide range of places.

But this 1902 discovery in Rampart, Alaska, on the Porcupine River, seems totally forgotten now.

I wonder if a followup expedition ever was mounted...?

Original article here.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 13, 2012 - Comments (10)
Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Regionalism, Religion, Unsolved Mysteries, Myths and Fairytales, 1900s, North America, Native Americans

Pothead Jesus

Funny, Jesus never said anything about this in his autobiography that I cited a here a little while ago!

Long, scholarly article from HIGH TIMES.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 17, 2012 - Comments (10)
Category: Drugs, Magazines, Religion, Historical Figure

The Violent Noah’s Ark Boys

Allan Holtz calls himself "the stripper". (He's a comic-strip historian.) On his blog, he recently directed his readers' attention to the Noah's Ark Boys — an odd series drawn by Ben McCutcheon that briefly ran in the Chicago Sunday Tribune back in 1911.

Holtz explains that the Noah's Ark Boys strip was inspired by the Noah's Ark figurines that were (and still are) the toys of choice in many religious homes. Children were supposed to learn wholesome Biblical values by playing with these toys. But McCutcheon evidently learned a slightly darker lesson, because every week his strip concluded with the Boys on the receiving end of some kind of horrific violence: burnt, blown apart, frozen, crushed, etc. Although the Bible is pretty violent, when it comes down to it. So maybe he did get the right message.

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Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 17, 2012 - Comments (6)
Category: Religion, Violence, Comics

Four Weird Vintage Postcards

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Be sure to use Number Four in all anti-Romney campaigning.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 06, 2012 - Comments (7)
Category: Art, Religion, Stereotypes and Cliches, Postal Services

Autobiography of Jesus

Wouldn't so many, many contemporary controversies be definitively settled if only we had Jesus's own writings about his life? Doesn't the sorry world of the 21st century need his inspired insights, straight from the Savior's lips? Of course! And yet, this Spiritualist-dictated "autobiography" languishes unread!

Check it out here.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 05, 2012 - Comments (9)
Category: Disguises, Impersonations, Mimics and Forgeries, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Religion, Books, Nineteenth Century

Kayser the Spy

The Reverend Kayser sounds like a real piece of work. German propagandist, adulterer, real-estate conman, and possible saboteur. A man accumulates a lot of possible murderers with that resume.

Bonus points for being named "Kayser" during World War I.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 23, 2012 - Comments (7)
Category: Death, Real Estate, Religion, Sexuality, War, Weird Names, 1910s