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Anti-Valentine’s Day Cards For People You Hate

13 Feb

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Valentine’s Day is a holiday for sharing your love with the people who have meant something in your life. But what about for the people who have only ever meant to cause you harm or annoyance?

What do you get for the person who drives you crazy on Valentine’s Day? How about these anti-VDay cards that will get your point across, as long as your point is, “You drive me so crazy, I can only express my rage in the form of hilariously terrible puns!”

Feel free to send these to the people who need them most this year.

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R.I.P. – Artist H.R. Giger Dies At 74 – The World Has Lost A Brilliant Talent

13 May

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Iconic artist H.R. Giger, the surrealist responsible for some of the scariest imagery in horror history and the man who was the personal architect and set designer for some of my most terrifying and entertaining nightmares, has died at the age of 74.

Giger was born in the Swiss town of Chur, Graubünden in 1940. He began working on his art with India ink and airbrushing, and began creating brilliantly surreal and nightmarish images of fantastical monsters that often evoked a primal revulsion in a wonderfully powerful way.

Giger depicted, sometimes subtly, sometimes overly, highly sexual and sexually violent imagery into his creature design and landscapes. By incorporating phallic and vaginal imagery, Giger was able to cut into his audience’s psyche and dredge up fear and emotional confusion from within.

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