Today’s Searing Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
The monthly superintendent’s reports at Yellowstone National Park from the 1920s are loaded with instances of people being burned in the face by looking down into the cone of Old Faithful Geyser. As incredibly imprudent as this may seem, around ten persons were injured in that decade by doing so.
Postcard of Old Faithful Geyser;
Frank J Haynes;
No date
Culled from: Death In Yellowstone
Ah, the good old days of personal freedom, before pesky trails, fences and warning signs ruined EVERYTHING!
Car Crash Du Jour!
Deathsentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak is an album and booklet by Negativland. The band describes the project as “a 6 by 12 inch 64-page full-color book which comes with a 45-minute CD soundtrack.” I’m not interested in the band Negativland, but I own a copy of this objet d’art macabre because car crashes are fascinating… and this is very similar to a project I wanted to do years ago but never got around to completing (nothing new there). What they did was go to junkyards and look for notes left behind in the smashed cars and display them together. Of course. you’re left wondering – did the person who wrote the note or for whom the note was intended live or die? I have no answers… but speculating can be its own entertainment, and so I present to you this entry.
So let’s take a poll: What do you think? Did Natalie (Baby) survive?
Yes. That's no death sentence! Bye Bye Natalie Baby, Goodbye!
Here’s the wreckage:
And here’s the note pulled from inside of it:
