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You probably haven't been tracking this like I have. But I have almost hit the 100,000 page view mark. And I will manage to do it in less than 6 years. Not too shabby! Thank you for all of your support and of course all of those page views. 

The other milestone isn't nearly as exciting. Next month I will turn the big 5-0. Yeah, I know, pretty scary. Believe me, last week it felt I was only 20. Time creeps up on you fast. But I am happy. I am in a good place. I have a great job and a great wife and I live in a great place in a great city. Life is very good right now. I am looking forward to finishing up my certificate program in Electronic Learning and getting back to my podcast...and maybe a little writing.

In the meantime, I will continue to work on Mayhem Mansion. I know it is coming out slowly, but I haven't forgotten about it. Here's how you can help: I need ideas for blunt weapons. There is a room full of blunt weapons in the mansion but I need your help figuring out what kind of blunt weapons. Please respond to this post by telling me what kind of bone-crunching items you would like to see in the Blunt Weapons Room.

Thanks and Cheers!

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I hope you have had the chance to listen to one, several or all of the Podcast of Doom podcasts, because I think we have had an excellent start. If not, you can access it on Itunes by going here: www.deviantart.com/danebainbri…itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/th… 

Or, you can go directly to the website and listen to each episode here: www.thepodcastofdoom.com/

Our first episode was the Great Peshtigo Fire. In 1871, a forest fire hit the small lumber and wood factory town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin. It happened following a summer of extreme drought and it was caused by a change in weather as well as numerous people setting fires that they presumed would burn out on their own. They were wrong and when winds of over 100 mph struck the town, the fire turned into a conflagration. More than 1,500 people were consumed by flames or died from asphyxiation or by getting trampled by panicked people and animals. The lucky and the unlucky all congregated at the Peshtigo River where many drowned, many were crushed and many were burned alive. Somehow a fortunate few did manage to survive.

Our second episode explored the Genocide in Rwanda that occurred in 1994. This was a tragic tale that revealed some of the unintended consequences of transitioning into a post-colonial society. Rwanda, a small but densely populated country in sub-Saharan Africa was populated for millennia. The two main ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsis, had more or less lived peacefully side by side and amongst each other for hundreds of years. When the Belgians took control of the country they instituted a number of laws and practices that resulted in the divisions of the two groups and the deliberate advancement of one group over the other. Thirty years after the revolution that put the subordinate group in charge, civil war broke out and an atmosphere of death and genocide took place. As upwards of 800,000 people were brutally murdered the governments of the world stood by on the sidelines and watched it happen.

In our last episode, we looked at the remarkable story of the Man-Eating Tigress of Champawat, and the hunter who eventually brought her killing to an end, Jim Corbett. Corbett knew why tigers developed a taste for human flesh. The tiger he was charged with hunting had killed 200 people in Nepal before being chased into India. There the tiger would consume another 236 people. Villagers in the area were absolutely terrified by the tiger. In one village, the residents locked themselves inside their homes for five straight days without access to food or water. If Corbett had not intervened, all would have perished. Corbett relates how he tracked the tiger based on information he received from eyewitnesses. He was able to locate the tiger’s trail by examining physical evidence and assemble a hunting party that nearly ruined the entire expedition. Eventually, he corners the tiger in a steep gorge. When Corbett runs out of ammunition he must use all of his cunning and resources to stay one step ahead of the tiger.

In our next two episodes we will look at the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II and the worst aviation disaster of all time, the air crash at Tenerife.

I hope you are enjoying the podcasts. I haven’t completely given up writing, but I won’t be working on any fiction until I can figure out to cram more hours into the day. In the meantime, I may start posting some of my scripts for the podcast. Cheers!



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HOORAY! I am very happy to announce my new project: THE PODCAST OF DOOM. itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/th…

You can get more information about the podcast at my website: thepodcastofdoom.com  And, when you get there, you can find a dazzling picture of me.

To those of you who have known me for a while, thank you all for all of your patience. To those of you who just found me, thank you for your interest. If you enjoy bad things happening to good people and bad things happening to bad people, then you are really going to enjoy this podcast.

The Podcast of Doom is a special project I have been working on for the last six months. It is a podcast that is available on Itunes, among other places. In the podcast I cover disasters, calamities, catastrophes, and man's inhumanity towards man. This is a podcast about human mishap. The purpose of this podcast is to study epic failure analysis. It is also to entertain and educate you. Each podcast will cover a famous disaster in world history, what led up to it, how it happened, how did people fail to stop it or lessen its impact, the casualties caused and what could have been done to make things less disastrous.

Following my introduction, the first episode is The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871. In the podcast I talk about the horrific fire that engulfed the small town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin. It was the most fatal fire in North American history. More than 1,500 people were killed. The warning signs of the impending fire were apparent for weeks in advance. Yet, no one evacuated the town until the flames began engulfing the buildings. In short time the entire town was surrounded by huge walls of flames and fire-tornadoes, leaving only one route to safety.

I will follow-up this episode with the The Genocide in Rwanda of 1994. Those of us who are old enough to remember will know this as one of the most brutal cases of mass-killing ever. More people were killed in this short window of time (three months) than ever before in recorded history. Find out how a small African nation, using a limited number of guns and a large number of crude weapons, committed the worst case of genocide since World War II.

Episodes 3, 4 and 5 will cover the Man-Eating Tigress of Champawat, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the shark-infested waters of the western Pacific, and the airplane crash at Tenerife in the Canary Islands; the worst airplane accident ever. After that, I have a long list of topics, but I will also be open to your suggestions (as long as it fits my criteria of at least 100 deaths and is a defined event with a beginning and ending).

The Podcast of Doom will be a great podcast. If you haven't listened to any podcasts before, please start now. It is a great way to get information on just about any subject. You can listen to recent, relevant discussions on numerous topics and hear some great new music. Just start off at the Itunes Store and navigate to Itunes. If you can't or don't want to use Itunes, let me know. There are other ways to hear podcasts, and you can always listen at your own computer.

If you are a long time viewer of my submissions, I want to thank you, very, very much from the bottom of my heart. If you were expecting something more "medically" related, I am not going to apologize, because I believe you will enjoy this very much. Podcasts are an auditory medium. I will be conveying information through my narrative. I think the subject matter of The Podcast of Doom will work great with this medium. My past work would be difficult to translate to this medium. Will I ever go back? Right now, I should be plenty busy producing podcasts for the near future. But I will keep up on all of my friends work on Deviant Art.

Once again, thank you for all of your past support for my writings and other submissions. I hope you will enjoy these podcasts. It really combines all of my great passions: writing, speaking, history, disaster, analysis, research and things that go horribly, terribly wrong. If you have any questions or comments, you can send me a note here at Deviant Art, at my email address of DanBurbridge2009@gmail.com, my podcast email at podcastofdoomPOD@gmail.com, or through the website at thepodcastofdoom.com.

P.S. – Sorry to break it to you, but my real name isn't Dan, Burbridge, Dane or DB. But, you know, most of us, don't use our real names on Deviant Art anyway. You can address me anyway you want, I'm easy. 



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Hello, It's Me

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Greetings everybody. Well, it certainly has been a long time since I posted anything. In fact, my last journal entry was back in April. So yeah, it's been a long time. But, I have been keeping busy. I have been working on a project that I hope will carry me into the next chapter of my career. It combines all of my loves: writing, history, analysis, calamity, destruction and listening to myself talk. I won't go into the details of that project now because I plan to do that in a future journal entry coming soon.

Over these last few months I have had the opportunity to examine what it is that I really like about the whole medical fetish thing. And although I really enjoy the female form and seeing it decorated in various curative wear: casts, braces, bandages, slings, traction and other devices. What I enjoy the most is how the subject ended up getting injured. Yes, the part I like best is where the heroine falls out of a window, loses control on the ski slope, is thrown from her horse, crashes her motorcycle, gets beat up by the girl-gang, pilots her plane into a hillside or falls down a staircase. For me that is the most imaginative part of the whole journey. And that will be a big part of my upcoming project. So, I beg you, please stay tuned and support me in this venture.

And now for the good stuff. I was quite fortunate to have :iconfalleklapp: send me a note with a link to the following bodycast video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Kd8H… . This a short ad for Manzanita Sol Lengua, which is a carbonated, sugary beverage made with apples. I understand it is very popular in Mexico and parts of the US. I will speculate what happened to our pretty, plastered heroine in a future journal entry. My Spanish is pretty much non-existent, but I think her visitor asks, "So, you seem to be doing okay?" I will say our unnamed heroine has quite the talented and dexterous tongue. I try to imagine what she can do with a long tongue like that other than grasp out-of-reach fattening drinks. Hmmm…well, enough of that. Thank you, Falleklapp for passing that along.

That led me to a string of other good finds. And, here they are:

Like the ever-popular Mr. Bean episode, where he visits a hospital and finds a seat next to a beautiful woman who has been in some kind of delightful accident in which she broke both her arms, both her legs and damaged her neck and head (oh, how I envy): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye27aI…

Next, we go way back in the time machine to 1973, to see a very young Stockard Channing in "The Girl Most Likely." This made-for-tv movie was written by Joan Rivers. A woman who definitely has a fetish for facial bandages and an addiction to cosmetic surgery. Stockard plays Miriam, a somewhat homely lass, who is picked on by everybody. At the peak of her troubles, she is hounded off the stage during a performance of a school play, and in a fit of emotions plows into an oncoming car that egregiously crossed over to the other side of the road: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KROumP…

As long as we are on made-for-tv movies, here is another one called, "Roll Freddy Roll." Hmm, I don't know what it is about made-for-tv movies from this epoch, but I guess if you wanted to pitch one, it had to include the main character ending up in a body cast. Here is Tim Conway, playing the title character, a hapless computer programmer trying to get in the good graces of his son. At the roller rink, his shoes are lost and he is forced to use the skates as footwear—24 hours a day. Allow me to say: shenanigans ensue. On his way to an important appointment, he hitches a ride from a motorcyclist and ends up crashing into a site-seeing bus at 70 miles per hour. Hi-larious! www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3UVz3…

Finally, there is this Brazilian gem. I won't even try to make sense out of it, but one of the characters ends up tricked-out in traction in a bed in her bedroom with a broken leg and a lot of bandages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=og0gYl…

Now, time for you to help me. I've been intrigued by this video clip I once saw from an old Italian movie. It was really low quality when I saw it, but now I can't find it, or better yet the whole movie. The film is called "Tre notti d'amore" or "Three Nights of Love." It stars the beautiful Catherine Spaak. The movie is actually 3 separate stories, and she is the main character in all three. By far, the best is the second story. She is a prostitute out for a joy ride in the Italian countryside when a horse crossing the road forces her to lose control of her car and crash it. She ends up in a monastery where they treat her injuries because it was their horse that crossed the road and caused her accident. (Screw Obamacare. I want Italian health insurance. Whoever is the cause of your accident, has to treat your injuries.) She sports a lovely shoulder-spica, long arm cast, long leg cast and a serious addiction to cigarettes; or as they called it back in the 1960's-normality. Please help me locate a clip of this movie from that scene or the whole movie.

Be good people. Look for my next post soon.



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For those of you who enjoyed the last cast-related video from those fracture-loving Czechs, I bring another body cast video from the wonderful land of Spain, where the pain falls mainly on the sprained. Another really warm and great thank you to :iconquixote008: for presenting me with this fantastic gift.

Here's the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFe9vO…

Our heroine, who I will call Pilar, because I like the name Pilar, and because I drew it randomly from the Spanish Screen Actresses Guild listing, is laid-up in a giant body cast and multiple traction devices. How did pretty little Pilar end up in this condition? We can't be certain, but I believe the commercial gives us several clues.

The first being, is Pilar really that large, or is her body cast just that thick? I vote for the latter. She has a thin face and thin toes. Thus, if her body cast is that thick, her injuries must be truly serious.

Our second clue is the beautiful floral print dress that Pilar is wearing. I mean really. I don't even think that is hospital-regulation attire. Our last heroine wore only a blanket to cover her privates, Pilar wears a whole dress. Does that seem right?

The final and biggest clue is in the audio. Listen carefully and you will hear the distinct sound of a frog croaking. But not just any kind of a frog—that is a chocolate-covered "Crunchy Frog." Such frogs, or frog-candies were made popular in a skit by the British comedy troupe, Monty Python's Flying Circus. As I recall, the frogs were high in roughage and completely organic. We can also tell by the casual way that Pilar flips the candies into her mouth, that these are obviously crunchy frogs. I mean, come on, what chocolate floats into your mouth so easily—it practically hops. That must be the delightful crunchy frog crammed into each chocky.

Now some conspiracy theorists may speculate that the astronomical caloric value of each chocolate in some way imperiled our heroine. How do we know the chocolates are high calorie? Do you know how many pounds of pressure it takes to snap typical hospital supplied traction rigging? It's a simple math equation: steel wire tinsel strength * pre-consumption cast and limb weight – post-consumption cast and limb weight = total calories required to destroy traction rigging. I get 7,254 calories per chocolate bit; or about 2.5 times an average person's daily caloric intake. Those are some fattening candies.

In conclusion, we can determine that it was the pure deliciousness of Filipino chocolates (I kid you not, that's what they are called) that led Pilar to her tragic, bone shattering destiny. Crunchy frogs are just too irresistible. Is it little wonder that they were Pilar's downfall?
In the poll below, I will provide some likely scenarios for how Pilar ended up so broken and shattered. You can tell me which scenario you think is the most believable.

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