And from the always amazing @Christine Quigley, there’s this.
Quigley’s Cabinet: Four feline faces…
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Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I’ve met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my h…
This just in from Coney Island USA, people. Hell, even the damn vermin are out to do the town in.
HELP! These little buggers have literally eaten us out of house and home!
Bad Beetles Threaten Sideshow Summer Season!
The 2012 summer season of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow and Burlesque at the Beach is being threatened by an invasion! A nest of wood-eating beetles found in the ceiling of the freakshow’s recently landmarked 1917 building is causing an uproar that threatens to slow down progress in the ‘New Coney Island’. Emergency repairs to the famed Coney Island attraction are necessary to prevent the building’s 2nd floor from collapsing on an awestruck audience distracted by fire eaters, sword swallowers, snake charmers and self-inflicted freaks entertaining the masses at the World’s Playground.
The beetles have long since moved on, but their damage requires emergency reconstruction. Dick Zigun, founder of the sideshow, says, “We’re calling on all supporters of Coney Island USA and the nation’s last permanent 10-and-1 Sideshow to help us fix the theater and get it ready for the summer. Coney Island USA has a temporary solution in place and would never invite audiences into a dangerous space, but the long-term consequences are serious.”
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Our Founder – and a vast number of others – will be working with Newman at next weekend’s Winter Festival of Wonders (http://www.facebook.com/groups/287844017921378/324261737612939/) You owe it to yourself to be there, too. You know you do. 
Harley Professional Lunatic
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That’s what we’re talkin’ ’bout.l
Kobayashi Downs Record, Eats 337 Chicken Wings At Philadelphia Wing Bowl
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PHILADELPHIA — Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia’s annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX. The Japanese phenom demolished the record of 255 set last year by …
Love us some robots/automatons here at S&A! Central. And if you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley you can read about why they’re all so damn creepy. (And send us a postcard, why don’tcha, when ya get to the Uncanny Valley.)
Robots Creepiest When Most Human-Like (VIDEOS)
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Some humanoid robots now in development are so realistic that they make you wonder if some of your friends have circuit boards behind their faces.
For those of you who know anything about what went down with @Jelly Boy the Clown some months back, well, it’s amazing the Squidlings are out and about, let alone heading for a European tour. But you can go to their site and find out way more than we can tell you here, no?
Welcome | Squidling Brothers Circus Sideshow
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The Squidling Bros. Circus Sideshow is assured to shock and amaze you! Lead by host “Jelly Boy The Clown,” the living cartoon and natural born weirdo, there is never a dull moment. Accompanied by his brother “Matterz Squidling the Impenetrable Music Man”, sideshow sensation “Betty Bloomerz…
Our Founder spent this past weekend, last night, and a hunk of today, recreating (ok, in 1/5) his now-defunct American Dime Museum at the aforementioned/noted Winter Festival of Wonders, at which he’s scheduled to lecture on Sunday, Feb.12, right before the sideshow/circus show. Hey, whole weekend’s jammed with stuff; check it out. Ya don’t show to any of it (hell, ALL of it), your friends’ll be raggin’ afterwards for what ya missed. We can’t make this stuff up, people.
Winter Festival of Wonders
Friday, February 10 at 7:00pm at Area 405
And the two-fers just keep on comin’. With thanks to @scott unpainted huffines for this one.
Watch This! – A TWO-FACED CAT – Video
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Many people believe cats have nine lives. This one really has two faces.
S&A! pal @Tricia Vita – c/o her blog, Amusing the Zillion – gave us the heads up that it’s now into Phase 2 of the ass ache which is people screwing with Coney Island. Now they want to yank all but a couple blocks of the boards from the boardwalk and replace the whole thing with concrete. The link to the petition DOES NOT require you to be local nor have ever even visited the Island. So sign and get others to pile on: They need 5K worth of signatures by Feb.21. Go now, and sign some more.
http://www.change.org/petitions/keep-the-boards-in-the-coney-island-boardwalk-no-concrete-and-save-t
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Guess ya gotta kinda get hauled into court to see this show, but hey, there’ve been more expensive shows, we suppose.
Video – Extreme Tattooing: Meet Mexico’s ‘Vampire Woman’
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Video – Maria Jose Cristerna has become known as Mexico’s Vampire Woman, thanks to her almost total body tattooing and skull implants.
