March 2012
February 2012
The Ossuary: The Boot Box Tragedy →
theossuary:
An Australian murder-mystery from Rachael Weaver’s article “The Morgue” in Meanjin:
On 17 December 1898 three boys reported having seen a wooden trunk bobbing in the Yarra River near the Church Street bridge. The Richmond police soon managed to retrieve it—still floating though wired to a…
thefluffingtonpost:
Oldest Known Cat Video Was Made by Thomas Edison
The name Thomas Edison is practically synonymous with hilarious cats. But did you know he may have created the original “funny cat video?”
The Boxing Cats (featured above) was one of the earliest motion pictures produced by America’s first movie studio.
Sadly, the cats depicted in the film have been dead for hundreds, if not...