Category Entertainment

Jul 1 2012

Vintage Circus Sideshow Acts

Freaky but fascinating these vintage photographs reveal circus sideshow acts in all their glory. Photographer Charles Eisenmann followed performers in the mid-1800s in New York City and offered to shoot their portraits so they could tout for business. The freak show was popular with the lower classes, causing ‘dime museums’ to spring up in some of the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods.

As science improved and led to many of the ‘freaks’ physical differences being explained as genetic mutation or disease, the sideshow fell into decline as the individuals were treated with compassion and sympathy instead of fear and disgust. VIA: –THE PRESURFER–

Jun 13 2012

Gamer Plays ‘Civilization’ for Decade, turns world into Hellish Nightmare

A computer gamer says he has been playing the same strategy game for 10 years – and turned the world into a “hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation“.

Jun 11 2012

Grand Opening! – Everything Must Go!

Marvin Jenkins had never been a man of means. Sure he ha worked some interesting odd jobs in his day: Bee keeper, pest exterminator, and even the pyrotechnics adviser for a few semi-famous bands, but he’d never been well-to-do or had much to call his own. That was OK, he wasn’t really into the materialistic things in life, and ever since he’d been declined active duty in the military services (chronic asthma and a gimpy knee, wouldn’t ya know) he hadn’t been much of a patriot either. When you’re not good enough to potentially die for your country, it can put certain things in perspective for a man.

 

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Jun 3 2012

Creepy Kids

Peter Schneider’s compilation of some of the infamous children from horror flicks. Schneider omitted a lot of other examples, but there’s more than enough here to give us nightmares tonight.

 

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