A professor's strange month in jails and mental hospitals

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The Grateful Dead 1991 - Turn On Your Lovelight - with Bruce Hornsby and Branford Marsalis

By Jack Brummet, Rock Ed.

Some of my favorite Dead shows were from the dark time after Brent died and Bruce Hornsby joined the band for a year and a half. Things got even better when Branford Marsalis came along. He played many shows with them around that same period. 

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Shoe Cameras in Japan (clandestine up-skirt cameras)

Police in Japan's Kyoto Prefecture raided a shoe manufacturer in July and commandeered a list of about 1,500 purchasers of the company's signature "tosatsu's"—shoes with built-in cameras. Investigators have begun visiting the purchasers at home to ask that they hand in the shoes (but, out of fairness, said they would not cause trouble for customers who could produce a legitimate reason for needing to take photographs and video by pointing their shoe at something). (The seller was charged with "aiding voyeurism" and fined the equivalent of about $4,500 under a nuisance-prevention law.) —From United Press International, 9-23-2014

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Drawing: Faces No. 920

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: Breakdown

By Jack Brummet

The undead walk
    Sloughing tendrils of putrefied flesh

And the living

    Are made of cardboard

The border between
    Being and nothingness

Is erased
    Fee Fie Foe Fum.

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Faces No. 919 - anonymous

By Jack Brummet

More twisted Halloween costumes

By Jack Brummet, Holiday Ed.

These are probably not as twisted, but every bit as amusing, as our earlier posts on Halloween costumes:

Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 1
Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 2

Ginger Snap Army

Merbaby

Wraps

The Pizza Guy

Nature Gal

Coors Light Gladiator

Octomom

Creepy

The Popemobile

Zombie Ronald McDonald

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Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 2

By Jack Brummet


A continuation of Twisted Halloween Costumes.  Click here to see the first post.

The Car

Cerebrus?

Physician

Father Muldoon

Sister Mary

Summer Beach Gear

WTC - Still too soon?

Not a costume, maybe, but a very strange tableau

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Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 1

By Jack Brummet, Holiday Ed.

We've posted a couple of these before, around Halloween.  Our criteria is mainly that the costume needs to be weird.  We did not include the many costumes that you would consider cute, or dressed up animals, and, believe or not, we left out most of the really sick costumes, or costumes where you might say "it's too soon!" These were collected from our readers, and from various outposts of the internet.

Little Hitler

Cartman's Hitler Costume

Illegal Alien

Twisted Family Costume(s)

The Tooth Fairy

Kind Of A Katamari Babies Costume

Goldilocks

Bomber

Hawaii's Favorite

Priapic Frog

Naughty Bits

Man-sheep

Caged

Man-horse/Centaur

Birth

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Faces No. 918 - Bleachers at the world's series

By Jack Brummet

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Faces No. 917 - Going Negative

By Jack Brummet

[Analog drawing-->digital reversal]

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"Mr Fenton's" famous K Mart prank

By Jack Brummet, Pranks and Persiflage Ed.

Although this has since been debunked by Snopes.com, among other sites, this is still a great piece of writing, and a great list of mostly harmless pranks.

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