The Corpse Debutante

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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:19:00 -0400

gimmethebeatboys: So there’s this.

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:58:36 -0400

gimmethebeatboys:

So there’s this.

PSST

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:33:16 -0400

HERE IS THE NEW PARTY I AM THROWING

aboutegypt: Tomb of Paschedu, Deir el Medina (by...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:37:11 -0500

aboutegypt:

Tomb of Paschedu, Deir el Medina (by Mutnedjmet)

When I was a little girl, I loved this tomb.

(I was that kind of kid.)

dailyreenactor: Curly on Flickr. I like following this tumblr...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:35:36 -0500

dailyreenactor:

Curly on Flickr.

I like following this tumblr for the rare but remarkable glimpses of someone who actually appears to be from the past. It’s not just something you can achieve by careful costumes. You have to look like someone from that far country. It’s not all that common in the Western world these days.

This guy has the look. His curls are bright and unkempt. His teeth are sound, which would make him lucky in the past, but they aren’t so orthodontically done as to be unrecognizable. His face is pocked — here, it is just acne, but in the past it might well have been the remains of a childhood disease or of smallpox. He’s well-fed, but not fat, and he is entertained simply to be alive.

vintagebrynmawr: gangsta nation part ii: hell week This girl...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:30:59 -0500

vintagebrynmawr:

gangsta nation part ii: hell week

This girl right here.

Q. Who has the best house? A. My mama and daddy, right here.

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:37:59 -0500

Q. Who has the best house?
A. My mama and daddy, right here.

Broken-hearted Old Man of New Hampshire, Flower-sniffing poet of...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:45:31 -0500

Broken-hearted Old Man of New Hampshire,

Flower-sniffing poet of New Hampshire,

Charming witty drunk, gate-crashing parasite,

Self-pitying, embittered, morose New Hampshire Man …

Misc. doodles XXVIX

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:39:44 -0500

Although the latter line is not my joke — I realize upon reflection that I stole it from Tom Servo — it nonetheless explains where I have been lately: trying to make things happen in books.

This is a very cute setup, but it’s a tinderbox —...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:07:12 -0500

This is a very cute setup, but it’s a tinderbox — one spark, and whoomph. And when that living room burned, it would summon Something to which you would not wish to explain your neglect of basic fire safety.

Won’t be long till I can see this sign again.

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:40:32 -0500

Won’t be long till I can see this sign again.

No! Yes! I know!

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:49:48 -0500

I have been gone for a week, but it was not because this was the holiday week. It is because of Circumstances.

Things are not exactly bad for me, but they are very much not the same as when I started this blog. I cannot manage a drawing every night any longer, at least not up to any kind of standard. Pitiful? Yes! True? Also yes! Nonetheless, in the words of Steve Dallas, a man has got to know his limitations.

But what I do know is that I no longer want to make this a yearlong project; I want to keep on with it, world without end. I mean to draw once a week, to reblog once an impulse, and to keep on keeping on, and keep watching the skies.

vintageblackbeauty: Baltimore slave, Martha Ann “Patty” Atavis,...

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:38:51 -0500

vintageblackbeauty:

Baltimore slave, Martha Ann “Patty” Atavis, holding Alice Lee Whitridge, the daughter of Dr. John Whitridge of Baltimore.

circa 1845-1860

This is … I don’t … this picture. So much and so wrong and so very real.

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:20:00 -0500

A twenty-year-old feminist has uploaded nude pictures of herself to her blog, as a protest and a statement of autonomy and sexuality. This would be unremarkable if it were not that this young lady is an Egyptian, living in Egypt, and now faces five years in jail for it. (Link to CNN.com article, no nudity visible)

In a Western context, I am at best ambivalent about the value of posing nude as a feminist statement. The nude female body is considered a commodity, valuable or useless, and it is not easy for the woman who poses to assert her full humanity to the Western viewer. (Observe, in the CNN article’s comments, the American gentleman who dismisses her with “a disgusting rack and cottage cheese thighs.”)

Here, though, as a citizen of a Muslim country, Elmahdy has truly risked everything in order to do this and to say: I do not belong to a man, I am under no man’s protection. The hope and defiance in her eyes means more than anything she has below the shoulders.

(I still don’t think it’s a very good likeness, though, but I’d be here all night if I had to fix it.)

Oh, not again, so uninspired lately

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:42:18 -0500

This was supposed to be a stylized impression of an ancient Celtic bronze figure of a horse, but what it turned out to be was a stylized impression of sucking at art at 11:30 p.m.

omgthatdress: Dress 1900-1901 The Metropolitan Museum of...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:44:03 -0500

omgthatdress:

Dress

1900-1901

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

There’s no context for this dress except that I believe I would have looked absolutely perfect in it. I would have done well in late-19th-century clothing, I think.

Misc. doodles XXVIII

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:10:08 -0500

According to narrative convention, when someone propagates a number of abstract staring-eye-based doodles, that someone is about to snap. I just realized that, so I hasten to assure you that I’m feeling very well tonight, and this is just the sort of thing I absently do.

Huddling in hoods again

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:53:10 -0500

This happens when I doodle during the winter.

You know what I enjoy about this guy? His cartoons are tiny...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:51:03 -0500

You know what I enjoy about this guy? His cartoons are tiny masterpieces. Did any circumstance demand that he produce this punchline against a perfect backdrop for an early-19th-century Anglo-American town? No! And yet, there it is. I appreciate this kind of quality.

I found your drawing of Mrs Ruxton distasteful. I also have a strong interest in crime, however I think to take it to the extent where you draw a woman's corpse is incredibly distasteful and worrying to be honest. Its a morbid fascination, almost enjoyment. You seem to forget that these people have families and histories; the whole reason I am anonymous is because Buck and Isabella were my grandparents and its a "secret" in our family. Please think about that, especially before you judge Buck.

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:18:48 -0500

A message that I received in regards to this entry (graphic, NSFW).