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Category: Aliens

Bjork and Her Television

I really think the beloved and utterly unique Bjork should be the official spokesgal for WEIRD UNIVERSE.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Oct 21, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (20)
Category: Aliens, Science, Television, Foreign Customs

Weird Poster

[Photographed in Providence, Rhode Island, October 2008, corner of North Main and Branch.]

If anyone can possibly explain the meaning of this poster, please do so.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Oct 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (37)
Category: Aliens, Art, Sexuality, Signage, Posters, Gender-bending

Bigfoot Lawn Statue

Xmas is coming right up! Don't you know someone who would love their very own Bigfoot statue...?

Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed Oct 08, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (12)
Category: Aliens, Animals, Business, Products, Cryptozoology, Fictional Monsters, Human Marvels, Statues, Monuments and Memorials, Chindogu

World D

Here's another strange book I purchased but have not yet read. The real author is Joseph K. Heydon, using the pen-name of Hal Trevarthen. Time has swallowed up all details related to Heydon and his book, leaving us only with the text itself.

Here's the description from the amazingly ugly dustjacket.

Here's the title page, followed by a sample of the actual bafflegab inside.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Sep 11, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (17)
Category: Aliens, Eccentrics, Government, Inventions, Literature, Books, Science Fiction, Writers, Nature, New Age, Paranormal, Pop Culture, Yesterday's Tomorrows, Self-help Schemes, Science, Psychology, Foreign Customs, 1930's

Giant Spider Roams Streets of Liverpool!

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Sep 07, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Category: Aliens, Art, Performance Art, Entertainment, Horror, Inventions, Parades and Festivals, Pets, Toys, Technology, Foreign Customs, Science Fiction

Slinky Dance

Why do I imagine this is how everyone dances in the universe of Jim Woodring's imagination...?

Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Aug 26, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Category: Aliens, Art, Performance Art, Toys, Dance

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Alex Boese
Alex is best known as the curator of the Museum of Hoaxes, but he has also explored the world of weird science in his most recent book, Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments.

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