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January 09, 2008
something that made me cringe, then laugh delightedly (then keep twitching for a while after)
Remember the super-awesome Wax Jodi Head from last summer? If not, go check it out while I wait here.
Yesterday Nastassja posted a fantastic series of photos of the wax head dismantling process. This is the point at which my eyebrow twitch kicked in:
And that one spot where my bottom lip is ticklish started buzzing softly, right about here:
See the rest here. I have to say I'm glad to see that the wax head is impermanent and the materials all get recycled, partly because I don't have to worry about where my likeness ends up, but mostly because it's just more like I'd like my own body to end up, dismantled and reused rather than preserved forever. While embalming seems like a fascinating and tricky art to me, I'd really rather be allowed to decompose naturally, or be fed to crows or something. Since that's not really a legal option then I guess I'll go for burning (after anything useful has been taken, of course) but it's not my first choice.
Jeez. What it is about mortuary arts that get me all morbid? Oh. Yeah.
Here's something else that made me both cringe and laugh yesterday, but not in nearly as good a way: the iTaser. No, really. iTaser. For listening to mp3s and stunning people. Why didn't I learn about that in my self defense class? (the one where I learned, among other fun yet tasteless facts, how to kill a man with two fingers).
When Taser International comes up with something that can cook me a hot breakfast and wax my legs while I zap people, then I might be interested.
Posted by jodi at January 9, 2008 04:19 PM | categories:
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Yoi. That's friiicking me owt!
Posted by: Steph VW at January 9, 2008 06:31 PM
Yes, the iTaser was especially disturbing...
Embalming, incidentally, is only a temporary preservation, so one's body does "return to the earth" or to ashes, if you like :) Current methods don't come anywhere near the embalming triumphs of ancient Egypt, I'm afraid.
Thanks for puttin' up those pics!
nstssj
Posted by: nstssj at January 9, 2008 06:38 PM
You could just zap your legs, forego the waxing altogether. But that poses the problem of your hot breakfast getting cold while you're unconscious.
Posted by: Maggie at January 9, 2008 06:46 PM
Heh, my husband just got an iPod for Christmas and he's going to want to trade it in. Big time.
Me, I'm waiting for photon torpedoes for my car. I need to vaporize some people.
Posted by: liz at January 9, 2008 07:42 PM
That is as good as the time my friend was a dead girl in a dumpster on "homicide: life on the streets"
Very freaky!
Posted by: Mama-E at January 9, 2008 07:47 PM
I'm happy to think I will never share the same experience of watching myself be dismantled. (Knock wood.) But it was cool to see the Jodi head come into being and then return to the elements. Wow.
Posted by: Courtney at January 9, 2008 10:55 PM
Any post that starts with a wax head and finishes with a leg wax is A-OK by me.
Posted by: NWJR at January 10, 2008 07:58 AM
Ooooh, creepy! I remember your original post about this too...
Posted by: connie at January 10, 2008 07:34 PM
Awesome wax head! Great post!
Let's hope they don't combine a taser with an iPhone. Thought it would be pretty funny, in a dark way.
Posted by: Laurie at January 14, 2008 11:22 AM