The original vampire, the height of charm, and the emotional support animal con
Links we like:
Lord Byron: Not just Byronic, vampiric
John Polidori was the personal physician to George Gordon, Lord Byron. Byron was often horrible to him. Polidori felt his famous client was sucking the life out of him, so he wrote The Vampyre in 1819 (Dracula by Bram Stoker was published in 1897). Read The Poet, The Physician, and The Birth of the Modern Vampire.
In Italy, people who wear glasses are called quattr’occhi (four eyes). Angelo Flaccavento finds glass-wearing individuals to be the height of elegance and charm. We don’t know how true that is, but we like to think so. Thanks to Lali for the link.
In America, people can take their pets everywhere by flashing a card claiming that they are “emotional support animals”. This is an insult to our cats, who regard us as their emotional support animal. Read the hilarious investigative report by Patricia Marx. In the photo above, she tests the emotional support card by taking an alpaca to the drugstore.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 17th, 2014 at 08:35
Thank you for introducing us to the Public Domain Review! Poor Polidori.
October 18th, 2014 at 08:21
I can’t possibly be the only person who now wants an alpaca after reading that New Yorker article.
October 20th, 2014 at 05:20
Glasses make people 20% hotter.