Iain Banks...

"...The bottom line, now, I'm afraid, is that as a late stage gall bladder cancer patient, I'm expected to live for "several months" and it's extremely unlikely I'll live beyond a year. So it looks like my latest novel, The Quarry, will be my last.

As a result, I've withdrawn from all planned public engagements and I've asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow..."

 

  The namesake of the this little jibberish scrapbook: The Secret Meat indeed...
What began with a bit of horse in someones meatballs has turned into a significantly dirtier story that keeps getting dirtier. But there's likely much worse than donkeymeat in those burgers. And as worked up as some folks are, many people do not mind at all, since they slaughter dogs and cats regularly for meat.
 Now recent tests have found traces of human DNA.
  Depends how you slice it so to speak. Because we consume a small percentage of the factory farm workers blood and pest fecal matter does not mean we dine on vermin and people. Entirely.

Meat all the way down...
   Studies in rats find that a transfusion of younger blood acts to rejuvenate older
   flesh and brains. Though medicinal cannibalism is not a new idea.
    Flavor of meat may be read in the genetic code.
    HumanBeing JellyBean

Good Friday

 Self-mutilation and crucifixions in Good Friday catholic ritual penance.

Did You Know? So is everything else on Earth.

Everything

EVERYTHING

Natural Lovin

 

"A weaned harbor seal pup was resting onshore when an untagged male sea otter approached it, grasped it with its teeth and forepaws, bit it on the nose, and flipped it over. The harbor seal moved toward the water with the sea otter following closely. Once in the water, the sea otter gripped the harbor seal’s head with its forepaws and repeatedly bit it on the nose, causing a deep laceration. The sea otter and pup rolled violently in the water for approximately 15 min, while the pup struggled to free itself from the sea otter’s grasp. Finally, the sea otter positioned itself dorsal to the pup’s smaller body while grasping it by the head and holding it underwater in a position typical of mating sea otters. As the sea otter thrust his pelvis, his penis was extruded and intromission was observed. At 105 min into the encounter, the sea otter released the pup, now dead, 

and began grooming...  

  Bizarre as this behavior may seem, Harris and her co-authors point out that it is not dissimilar to standard sea otter mating protocol, in which males will often approach the female from behind, grip her around the chest with his forepaws, and grasp her nose or the side of her face with his teeth. Although the female frequently resists, generally the two eventually spin in the water, the male behind the female, until mating is complete. Here, too, the encounters may prove fatal for the female, either as a result of wounds inflicted from the male’s bites and scratches or because of drowning. Harris and colleagues describe one instance in which a male otter held a struggling female underwater until her body became limp and then copulated with her several times. Indeed, trauma related to mating was responsible for 11 percent of deaths in fresh southern sea otter carcasses examined between 2000 and 2003. "

                   -Heather Harris, California Department of Fish and Game

 

mardi gras

Skull & Bones Gang wake up Treme

 The Pope announces resignation, the first Infallible Big Papa to quit the throne of Peter before physical death in six centuries. The day before Lent no less, the High Holy Week of the Church of Rome.
  Latest Odds on The New Pope

groundhog day

House of Cards