From Unusual Kentucky
This poor little underfunded site does a great job promoting the wild and wacky people and places of my home state.
Posted by tizzie at February 24, 2003 12:28 PMFer instance, "Nathan Stubblefield, born in 1860, was an eccentric melon farmer from Murray, KY. He was a voracious reader and styled himself as a self-taught scientist and inventor. As early as 1885, he had invented several different wireless telephone devices .... (He) died a crazed hermit in his shack in the wilderness."
eeek, the pic is huge and I don't know how to make it smaller.... hope me!
Posted by: tizzie on February 24, 2003 12:32 PMsomething's fucked up something's not right i came to have a good time you came to fight but if i do fight nothing to fear 'cause i know my friends are here i don't like to fight i don't like getting hurt got my guard up state of alert i don't look for trouble trouble finds me needs my friends in an emergency don't go out alone go with a friend you might need him in the end stand up stand up stand up stand up and be counted
Posted by: ufez on February 24, 2003 12:57 PMoh, and Kentucky's two letter abbreviation is KY. Discuss...
Posted by: ufez on February 24, 2003 12:58 PMI like the way the handsome monkey person depicted in the sign is lurking in the tall grass, waiting and watching. This goes on all the time, all around us. The monkeys are like Wings of Desire angels, except they don't hang out in libraries quite so much.
My Thomcatspikeish correspondence course is really paying off.
Posted by: Kaf Scratch Fever on February 24, 2003 01:03 PMNathan Stubblefield, born in 1860, was an eccentric melon farmer
Is there any other kind?
But He was also a kind man. In the summer his melons would get bored and restless so he'd send them away to John Cougar's Melon Camp.
Posted by: jonmc in a handy new dispenser on February 24, 2003 01:04 PMi *heart* ufez
Hey, aren't there reasons to mock other places? C'mon, show me the weirdness of Pennsylvania, Louisiana, or even Portugal....
Posted by: tizzie on February 24, 2003 01:04 PMAren't there any cross-dressing chicken farmers in your home town?
Posted by: tizzie on February 24, 2003 01:08 PMcross-dressing chicken farmers
Are there any other kind?
Posted by: jpoulos on February 24, 2003 01:31 PMIn Utah, there's a weird place called Gilgal Gardens that this guy, Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. made back in the mid-twentieth century. Click on the interactive tour link, quick menu, then The Sphinx. The Sphinx has Joseph Smith's face on it (founder of LDS religion).
I never ended up going in because when I lived there, I think it was still closed to the public.
It's wacky Mormon good fun!
Posted by: witchstone on February 24, 2003 01:58 PMLa critpa dei cappuccini
The Cappuccini* monks took over 4000 bones and decorated 6 rooms beneath the Chiesa dell'Immacolata in Via Veneto, supposedly as a reminder that death closes the door on time and opens the door to eternity.
My personal opinion is that it went something like this:
"Well, what are we going to do tonight?"
"Pray?"
"We just did that."
"Well, wine women and song are out.."
"I know! Let's decorate those bland rooms below! These bones are pretty..."
Celibacy: Too much is a Bad Thing (tm).
*Cappucino the drink was supposedly named after this order of monks, who sported brown robes and white hoods.[/tour guide]
Posted by: romakimmy on February 24, 2003 02:19 PMThose bone-churches are bitchin'.
Bill Bryson does a great bit about the Capuchin monks...like you'd be hanging around, just doing your monk thing, when you notice the carpenter eyeing your femur from across the vestibule.
Posted by: Kaf Scratch Fever on February 24, 2003 02:39 PMWe all live on a yellow submarine, a yellow..fnpost.
Tiz the unusual kentucky site was interesting as the pictures(10 or so that changed when you hit the refresh key)reminded me of all the little odd things you notices in the back seat of a car, when a visiting. For me growing up, it was the visitors that were the attraction. I lived at the top of the red E on this map. But yes we were odd, told all the time, Hey you, the wierdo californian, how do I get back on the freeway to Disneyland. ;P
PS, my friends and I usually sent them towards hollywood since they usually scoffed at our directions, that they needed to head west not east for disneyland.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on February 24, 2003 04:08 PMWe all live on a yellow submarine, a yellow..fnpost. I keep adding too.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on February 24, 2003 04:09 PMI've always felt an enormous attraction for Kentucky - can't remember her surname. Ginger or Gold or something.
No, great site, Tizzie! :)
P.S. Drat, no photos of Capuchin monkeys drinking cappucino. Little Red Riding Hood is called "Capuchinho Vermelho" in Portuguese. Lupo might be interested in that, next time he feels like a girl.;)
Posted by: Miguel on February 24, 2003 09:27 PMLupo might be interested in that, next time he feels like a girl.;)
Once again you have completely confounded me, my friend. I'm slow on the uptake this week...
Posted by: jpoulos on February 25, 2003 09:34 AMMy favorite Kentucky landmark: The Castle. We saw it once driving down to visit friends in Bardstown and were enchanted.
I'm not from there, but one of my good pals once gave me an issue of Weird NJ.
In closer-to-home, or at least closer-to-Detroit, news: the new Evil Dead video game takes place in Dearborn, but their description almost sounds more like Ann Arbor.
Posted by: Britain on February 25, 2003 09:38 AMthe new Evil Dead video game
must...have...this...game....
Posted by: jpoulos on February 25, 2003 09:42 AMIf Lupo wants to feel a girl, I volunteer.
Hey, it's my generous nature, dammit.
And I'm glad you liked the site, Miguel!
Posted by: tizzie on February 25, 2003 09:58 AMLupo might be interested in that, next time he feels like a girl
"Lupo" --> Lupe --> Wolf --> Bid Bad Wolf dressing up as a grandmother.
Is that it?
Join us next week on "Inside the Mind of Miguel".
Posted by: kafka, esq. on February 25, 2003 11:29 AMI've seen better looking sites. I think I may have seen this last E3...memory fuzzy.
Posted by: kafka, esq. on February 25, 2003 12:15 PMI've never felt better either. (That is, you're the best I've ever felt!)
The Evil Dead game looks a kinda shitty, but I only recently discovered the Evil Dead movies, and I'm ALL into them.
Posted by: jpoulos on February 25, 2003 12:46 PMI've always loved Evil Dead II, but to be honest Army of Darkness never had quite the same allure. The first Evil Dead is good for the schlock value, and it's interesting to see the same story get made twice.
Of course, Skeleton Warrior's performance in Army of Darkness made it all worthwhile. They really broke the mold when they made that guy.
Posted by: kafka, esq. on February 25, 2003 12:52 PMGah, I'm becoming obscure and recherché in my dotage. Thanks, Professor Kafkaesque, for the incisive semantic analysis. It was indeed a wolf-eats-girl allusion.
*large sucking noise as thomcatspike moves into the No.2 spot in the "What The Hell Are You On About?" stakes. ;)
Posted by: Miguel on February 25, 2003 12:53 PMBut summertime dirt waffles don't make succotash paint with oyster shoes, right? I mean, it's February!
Posted by: kafka, esq. on February 25, 2003 12:58 PMWe got feeling in this thread, anal sex and flying buttresses in the next thread over. What happened to the sweet innocent poop-flinging of our youth?
No matter. I've decided that apart from the internet, I don't really much like the modern world. I'm looking into cabins in idaho and small armaments with which to wait out the crumbling of society.
Posted by: jonmciamah johnson on February 25, 2003 01:30 PMToo modern, kaf.
Perhaps some commune out there has perfected a recipe for homemade Organo-Nerf made from boiled beaver paddles and grasshopper phlegm.
Posted by: jonmc appleseed on February 25, 2003 01:48 PMAnother Detoiter, Britain? Alright! (I used to hang out in Dearborn, or at least with kids from thereabouts when I was in high school).
Can I admit without threats of laughter and bodily harm that the first time I saw Army of Darkness was about a week ago, the night of that big snow storm? All this skeleton warrior stuff made me want to see Jason and the Argonauts again, but CockBlocker BlockBuster doesn't carry it anymore! Aiiieee!
Posted by: adampsyche on February 25, 2003 02:30 PMMy little yahoo launchcast station has introduced me to a band called Regency Buck. I am sure that this is one band not afraid to engage in fisticuffs.
Posted by: witchstone on February 25, 2003 04:51 PMI also saw Evil Dead two last week. Synchronicitous!
Also
9622.net : I'm becoming obscure and recherché in my dotage.
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on February 25, 2003 08:39 PMSomeone linked to some of the Skeleton Warrior obits last week and lamented about how we neglected to mention his work in Army of Darkness. I never saw it. I couldn't stand the sight of that bony bastard then.
Posted by: eyeballkid's hairball's strange obsession with butter on February 26, 2003 12:41 PMDidn't Skeleton Warrior play bass with them?
No, that was Skid Row.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it was Great White.
*ducks tomatoes*
Posted by: pardon me on February 26, 2003 01:00 PMNobody talked about his aerobics videos either.
Posted by: kafka, esq. on February 26, 2003 01:01 PMOr his work in the 80s as "personal trainer" for Tracey Gold.
Posted by: jpoulos on February 26, 2003 01:33 PMI tried to follow his step-aerobic video, and it was way beyond me. That guy had some moves.
Posted by: tizzie on February 26, 2003 01:48 PMI hear he worked with The Juiceman for a while.
Rumor had it they were going to create an indestructible race of skeletal, fruit sucking Oompah-Loompahs and take over the world.
Posted by: kafka, esq. on February 26, 2003 01:56 PMOh Jesus!
umm, is 1:30 on a Wednesday too early to start drinking?
Posted by: tj on February 26, 2003 02:40 PMPour one for me too, tj - that is one scary freakin' picture!
It looks like the first indestructible thing they invented was those dentures.
Posted by: tizzie on February 26, 2003 03:09 PMI think the eyebrows came first. Take that how you want. I think a squeeze of lime and a crisping of salt around the edge of the glass is in order ...
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