I admit...

...It actually took me about a minute to figure this out. Plus, I was on the phone, so Josh can attest to the fact that I sat there....silent....not quite sure why he thought it was funny.

But...it is funny....




And now for something else that I found interesting...

(This will take you through a guide of how I use modern media too.)

After watching Marie Antoinette (Yes. My quality of life has taken a dive. But it was Sophia Coppola. That has to mean something.), I naturally went onto Wikipedia to read about the real Marie Antoinette. You know, the same shit. To see what she looked like. To see what actually happened. Whether I should replace my understanding of history with Kirsten Dunst...etc.
...and...after being horrified by the unbelievable inhumanity and bloodlust of the French Revolution, I noticed that one of her loyal ladies in waiting was decapitated for refusing to betray her loyalty to the queen...and had her head placed on a pike, and the severed head was paraded in front of Marie Antoinette's window. (Actually, if the ol' Wiki is to be believed, she was gang raped, had her breasts cut off, she was mutilated, possibly had her genitals cut out, and THEN her head was placed on the pike. More reason to hate the French eh?)

As was also natural, I went to look up who played this lady in waiting in the movie on IMDB...remembered who her character was...and then went back to Wikipedia. As if that would enrich my experience, right?

So then I kept reading, and I found out that some lady named Madame Tussaud, made a death mask of this lady, named Princess de Lamballe. And I thought to myself, "what the fuck is a death mask?"

So in the ever handy upper-right corner Google searchbar of Firefox, I typed in Death Mask....and the rest of the night was pretty much lost.

Up until and past the time of photography, apparently, for purposes of identification, or for making statues, or for various other reasons...it was common practice to take a waxen or plaster cast of a dead person's face. This sparked my interest. Because I have always really wondered what old dead people actually looked like. For example, these are all pictures of James Madison.






I find this Profoundly unhelpful. I want to know what he actually looked like! Apparently he was 5'1" and 110 pounds. That is not what I see. So for people like Madison (unfortunately, he doesn't have one), I could actually see what they looked like! So I searched and searched...and had a jolly ol' time...until, well, hours later I did my evidence homework.

Anyhow, here's a few:

This one is obvious, but serves as testament to its accuracy.

This one is not obvious. It's Napoleon.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure will never be the same.....