Tales from the Freak Show - week of 4/17

Are snails ruining your garden or your life?

Follow the solution that slithered into the brain of a 59-year-old Welsh woman named Oriole Parker-Rhodes.

She eats them.

One of her favorite ways to hook them up is with parsley and butter, with a side salad and bread, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.

The snail snacking woman even went as far as to set up a site featuring snail recipes at http://eatinggardensnails.blogspot.com.

Speaking of eating weird things:

Remember when mom used to tell you a watermelon would grow inside your gullet if you ate the watermelon seeds or an apple tree would sprout from your stomach if you ate apple seeds?

Well, one dude in Russia had a pine tree growing in his lungs.

The guy had been coughing up blood and suffering from excruciating chest pains when surgeons decided to operate on him to remove what they thought would be a cancerous tumor. What they found instead was a 2-inch pine tree.

The hypothesis is the 28-year-old must have inhaled a pine tree seed some time back and it somehow lodged into his lungs and thrived there. Surgeons successfully removed the tiny tree but did not say if it got transplanted in the guy’s backyard.

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Tulum, Mexico: A dead thing, some flowers, a skeleton bouquet

Tulum: Beautiful sky, beautfiul people, beautiful yoga teachers

SNAPSHOT

if you
spend your whole vacation just
taking pictures to
preserve your
memories to
fill up a book – your
only real
memory is
taking pictures.

-Ryn Gargulinski

Tulum: An ugly thing, a typo, a coconut fence

Tulum: Little dead people and a big head

Tulum: Speed limit, speed bumps, autos built for speed

Tulum: Death mirror, donkeys, a mask

Tulum: Mussels, green stuff and feet

SURRENDER

the waves say “hello, I want to
suck you in” I want to
let them – I want to
gush to the
bottom of the
ocean – ride
rampant with the
free weeds in the
sea – I want to swim
quick with the sharks dart
twixt coral as sunfish swish
slow as a sailfin who
glides in the breeze – to
slither and ooze like the
eels – who have
nothing else or
better to do.

-Ryn Gargulinski

Tulum: A yellow thing, a man, a burnt out chunk of driftwood

Tulum: Afternoon on the town

Tulum: A swingset, a flipper, an iguana