A blogger who calls himself “the last young angry man” is committed to sustaining himself on only monkey chow for a week. I admire his valor. I don’t think I could get through a single bowl.

From The Monkey Chow Diaries website:

“Imagine going to the grocery store only once every 6 months. Imagine paying less than a dollar per meal. Imagine never washing dishes, chopping vegetables or setting the table ever again. It sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?

But can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? For the good of human kind, I’m about to find out. On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: “a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes.” Maybe I’ll lose weight. Maybe I’ll gain superhuman monkey strength. Maybe I’ll go crazy. Maybe it’s too late. Check back here every day to follow along with the Monkey Chow Diaries. Comments, criticisms, questions and advice can be left on the blog.”

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Nick Osborn of Square America, a site “dedicated to preserving and displaying vintage snapshots,” has an intriguing collection of very strange slides, and he needs your help in figuring out what exactly they mean.

From the SWAMPATORIUM blog:

“I got this lot of slides about three years ago and I’ve never been able to figure out just what is going on. There are about 50 slides in all- all dating from between 1959 and 1969 and all of young women. Some, like the ones here have letters written on their foreheads, others have press type with their names on it affixed to either their temples or foreheads. Were the slides taken by a dermatologist or plastic surgeon or were these young women part of some now forgotten experiment. In less than fifty years these slides have gone from most likey being unambiguous data for some medical study to being a complete mystery.”

The theories that have been postulated thus far speculate that the photos could have been taken for anything from gender reassignment surgery studies to rhinoplasty to fraternity/sorority hazing.

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Infantilism is the desire to dress and be treated as a helpless infant, and those who indulge in the practice are known as “adult babies.” According to Thomas John Speaker’s dissertation, Psychosexual Infantilism in Adults: The Eroticization of Regression, a majority of practitioners are heterosexual males and the condition is unrelated to pedophilia.

Anyway, if you happen to be an infantilist or “adult baby,” there’s now an online clothing store packed full of adult-sized kid clothes just for you! Adult-sized rompers, overalls, jumpers, footed sleepers, pantaloons, play pants, etc.

I found this through a string of other sites: I was searching for the correct formatting for the term “Never Never Land,” and I found the site of a guy who likes to dress like Peter Pan, through which I found a link to this clothing store called Forever A Kid.

Where did people get this sort of stuff before the internet, I wonder?

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A portfolio of headshots from an Atlanta-based fashion photographer who specializes in airbrushing the child out of the child beauty pageant contestants. For a little bit extra, you can have you’re child’s missing teeth digitally filled in and their eyes widened.

Reminds me of the Shari Cookson made-for-television documentary, Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen.

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