Mutter Museum: Really Gross Anatomy
Thursday, May 13th, 2010On a recent trip to Philadelphia I had the opportunity to revisit The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, to see what’s changed since last exploring this mecca of medical oddities and squirm-inducing equipment in 2004. Piece of John Wilkes Booth’s thorax. The Mütter likes to downplay its freak show side with [...]
Pricey Freak Pennsylvania Bound
Monday, January 18th, 2010An article in Michigan’s Kalamazoo Gazette caught our attention, reporting that an otherwise unidentified Pennsylvania “Dime Museum” — an attraction devoted to freaks and curiosities — had just bought a stuffed two-headed calf in Kalamazoo for slightly under $3,500. Typical 2-headed calf, Colorado. Another attraction commodity, the Muffler Man, has experienced wild price fluctuations between [...]
Roadside News: January 12, 2010
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Nebraska Sea Monster – NE | Chilly Curator – PA | Flying Squirrels Evict Indian – VA | Fake Shuttle In Real Danger
Roadside News: Dec. 11, 2009
Friday, December 11th, 2009Shoot Out Your Eye for Christmas: – OH | Junior the Barbarian – PA | Junk Towers – Skateboarder Turf? – CA | When Words Fail – MD
Gettysburg Electric Map: No Address
Monday, October 5th, 2009The Battle of Gettysburg saved American civilization from certain destruction. Now free Americans want to see the battle as they had done so for decades: at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, on a big Electric Map. Unfortunately, it’s gone — split asunder. Or, at least in storage. The map was a [...]
Pennsylvania: Pagan As You Go
Friday, September 25th, 2009When a group of sociable Pagans decided to hold their “Celebrating Earth Spirituality Festival” at the semi-charming and vaguely Tudoresque (circa 1996) theme shopping hamlet of Stoudtburg Village, little did they know that the gathering would cause a retail revolt. An offended group of shopkeepers refused to open on that day, lest they come in [...]
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