Assume Choking Chicken Stance, Grasshopper

David Carradine has died.  He was in Bangkok filming a new movie, and was found dead in the closet of his hotel room. According to the BBC:

Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found naked by a hotel maid in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body.

Earlier versions of this report contained the words ‘his genitals’ in place of the much more benign ‘his body.’  The internet is of course filling up with warm and fuzzy tributes to Carradine, and so, while a death is regrettable, and remembrances are touching, I would like to remind everyone that he most likely died while…well, you know…

Funeral Home For Sale: Lots of Extras

This is so many shades of creepy:

"Four bodies in a funeral home isn't unusual. Four unidentified bodies left behind in a vacant funeral home is "unbelievable."

That's what the Rev. Reginald Burrell thought Sunday when he and deacons from Northlake Church of Christ went to visit their newly purchased building.

They found four bodies, including one in the bag, one in a corrugated burial box and two in caskets...they could have been there since 2006."

There's a horror movie in this story somewhere, I can feel it.

Things Almost Seen

I was messing around aimlessly in iTunes, when I suddenly caught a glimpse of something…evil.  It was a momentary glance of something resembling a hand-drawn simulacra of the original internet evil.  Goatse. 

Waiting for the image to cycle back through its rotation, I grabbed a screen cap.  Looks like goatse to me. 

If you don’t know what goatse is, consider yourself lucky.  No, more like blessed.  My eyes still hurt from the Clorox, and that was like 2002.