Stupid baby names, removal, Kobe beef meatloaf and white chocolate cheesecake, London deaths

I'm checking my email now, and it's nice to have a voice of reason amidst all the chaos. Some people just want to be devious, but I am not giving in to that since it's crazy talk! I just love these email exchanges when they crop up: actually, I love how we almost never refer to someone by his actual name. It's pretty standard for us, hehe.

Yay for removal! If you don't know what that means, don't ask. :P Then I browsed around London Drugs, decided NOT to get a buttload of chocolate, and subsequently went to Milestones. Got some Kobe beef meatloaf and a white chocolate cheesecake slice - SO GOOD! It definitely satisfied cravings I've had since the R-Man's birthday - and it's been almost nine months since that event! No comments about how nine months is the usual length of a human pregnancy coupled with my mention of cravings, please - it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to be pregnant now!


These have got to be among the stupidest baby names ever!

LordCaden DaVon'Christopher (even if I weren't religious, I'd still think that "LordCaden" was a pretty crappy name!)
Cashton Chad
Blessin La'Faye
Julleit Angelena
Mattisyn Annalee
McKynzee Angelique
Attyson Makenna

Twins: Aeriol Clarity and Acina Ciana (anagram)
Confident Zeany (parent: Comfort)
Dream Danielle
Ruby Danger
Bristol Shawn (GIRL!)
Anabigail Saphire


Today's Straight Through The Middle Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

A Tillamook man died Friday, March 2, 2007 after he drove a car into the back of farm equipment on Highway 6 near Tillamook. Oregon State Police identified the man as Ramiro Diaz-Mendoza, 28. According to police, Diaz-Mendoza was driving a 1990 Toyota two-door west on the highway about 6:45 a.m. when it crashed into the back of a 1992 Oregon Road Runner hay squeeze going the same direction. The farm machinery appeared to go straight through the middle of the car. Diaz-Mendoza was initially taken to Tillamook County General Hospital before being transferred to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, where he died. The operator of the farm equipment, Jason M. Sagar, 37, of Tillamook, was not injured. Sagar estimated he was going 40 mph to 45 mph when Diaz-Mendoza rear-ended the machine. Authorities said speed and alcohol appeared to contribute to the crash.

Culled from: KATU.Com
Generously submitted by: Rob

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You have to click on the above link to see the picture of the wreckage. The guy had NO chance!

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For Those Who May Be Interested...

I've started posting the Morbid Fact Du Jour on the Comtesse's Myspace blog. I figure this may help to gain some new converts, and we need all the desensitized sickos we can get. So if you'd rather receive the MFDJ on Myspace, feel free to unsub from the email list - I won't take it personally. Of course, the MFDJ newsletter will still be available via email and on the web as well.

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Morbid Link Du Jour!

It may be propaganda, but it's damned morbid propaganda! Here's a U.S.-funded anti-suicide bombing commercial. Thanks to Rob for the link.

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Wretched Recommendations!

Hilton has a book recommendation for us:

Necropolis: London and Its Dead by Catharine Arnold

"I just came across this book at lunchtime, and have had a quick flick through. It is very well written, and not as turgid as some of these things are, and offers a history of pretty much everything to do with death and London over the years."

Peter Ackroyd, The Times
"Deeply pleasing... Entertainment of the most garish and exquisite kind... A Baedeker of the dead."

Synopsis: "From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales -- NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS DEAD offers a vivid historical narrative of this great city's attitude to going the way of all flesh. As layer upon layer of London soil reveals burials from pre-historic and medieval times, the city is revealed as one giant grave, filled with the remains of previous eras -- pagan, Roman, medieval, Victorian. This fascinating blend of archeology, architecture and anecdote includes such phenomena as the rise of the undertaking trade and the pageantry of state funerals; public executions and bodysnatching. Ghoulishly entertaining and full of fascinating nuggets of information, Necropolis leaves no headstone unturned in its exploration of our changing attitudes to the deceased among us. Both anecdotal history and cultural commentary, Necropolis will take its place alongside classics of the city such as Peter Ackroyd's LONDON."