Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Whoa! Walter Potter's taxidermy dioramas that (I guess) were cute in the 19th century are mind-blowingly creepy today.
Be sure to click the links for more photos. Via ANS.
TrackBackNot the same guy who painted those dogs-as-clubmen scenes of cardgames and after-dinner port?
How would you clean one of those things?
Posted by: I don't pay at April 12, 2006 03:46 PMThose dead cats? Those dead cats live better than you and I!
Posted by: norbizness at April 12, 2006 03:58 PMWaaah!!!
Holy smokes, that's weird.
The stuff people did before television, huh?
And plastic. I guess before plastic you had to use natural materials.
I'm gonna throw up a link to this from my blog, if you don't mind.
I'm gonna throw up a link to this from my blog
I originally read this as "I'm gonna throw up on a link to this from my blog"
Posted by: My Alter Ego at April 12, 2006 04:14 PMGoddamn, apostropher, that is about the grossest thing I have seen on here in a long time. They don't even look like kittens. They look like alien grey hybrid kittens, with big, black eyes and sour dispositions and a strong desire to do something terrible to us.
Full disclosure: I have sometimes NOT followed a link you provided because I cherished what tattered shreds of sanity I retain, so please don't take that grossest thing deal as a challenge or something. Uck. Gods, I am going to go mad if I look at that any longer.
Posted by: Robust McManlyPants at April 12, 2006 04:19 PMLordy, lordy, lordy! What a perfect fusion of the kitsch and macabre! I feel queasy. So was this guy a mass murderer of kittens so that he would have enough raw material for his "art" work or did he come by his kitty corpses another way?
You know, I don't really need to know that. Forget I asked, just as I will try to forget the dead kitty tea party. Ewwwwwwwww!
I have personally visited the Potter Museum of Curiosity, both at its original location in Arundel and the new site in Bodmin moor.
For each of these displays (and there are about a dozen), there is also a story of how the taxidermist came by that collection of dead kittens or puppies.
In many of them the animals are dressed up in school uniforms, formalwear, etc. Once you get used to the idea, they are actually pretty cute.
Posted by: Charles Watkins at April 12, 2006 07:10 PMKitten #1: "Would you like some more?"
Kitten #2: "No thanks, I'm stuffed."
Posted by: Gaijin Biker at April 12, 2006 10:22 PMIt's even better if you do GB's dialogue in the voice of Henrietta Pussycat from Mister Rogers:
Kitten #1: "Would meow meow like some more meow meow?"
Kitten #2: "Meow meow No thanks, I'm stuffed meow meow."
Posted by: at April 12, 2006 10:31 PM