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03-24-2010, 11:57 AM
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#1393
03-24-2010, 12:05 PM
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Content, Pictures and Download links visible to registered users only. REGISTER NOW to access all areas that are invisible to non-members. When I was a kid back in the days of three networks and one public station with poor reception, there was a church show on Sunday mornings that featured a pair of performers who were either the most genetically gifted or cursed individuals ever to shill for the lord. The were twin Mexican accordion playing dwarves (or maybe midgets) and they each had six fingers on each hand, and no joke, those motherfuckers could play the accordion like nobody's business.
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#1394
03-24-2010, 12:11 PM
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A little creative Googling and I think I turned up a picture of one of them.
 And more Googling turns up a name for them: Cuatitos Cantu. Apparently regulars on Mexican TV and must have gotten gigs performing for early televangelists also.
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Last edited by el_victorino : 03-24-2010 at 12:18 PM.
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03-24-2010, 01:31 PM
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03-24-2010, 04:34 PM
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The most beautiful suicide
The most beautiful suicide
 On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death. The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption: On May Day, just after leaving her fianc?, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure. From McHale's NY Times obituary, Empire State Ends Life of Girl, 20: At 10:40 A. M., Patrolman John Morrissey of Traffic C, directing traffic at Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, noticed a swirling white scarf floating down from the upper floors of the Empire State. A moment later he heard a crash that sounded like an explosion. He saw a crowd converge in Thirty-third Street. Two hundred feet west of Fifth Avenue, Miss McHale's body landed atop the car. The impact stove in the metal roof and shattered the car's windows. The driver was in a near-by drug store, thereby escaping death or serious injury. On the observation deck, Detective Frank Murray of the West Thirtieth Street station, found Miss McHale's gray cloth coat, her pocketbook with several dollars and the note, and a make-up kit filled with family pictures. The serenity of McHale's body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding. Years later, Andy Warhol appropriated Wiles' photography for a print called Suicide (Fallen Body).
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03-24-2010, 09:29 PM
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