Take-Out

On this day in 1852 the first Chinese theater in United States, the Celestial John, opens in San Francisco, California. Speaking of drama today in 1888 Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a rusty razor whilst in a rage and brings it to a prostitute by the name of Rachel. Moving on to other body parts — on this date in 1954 doctors perform the first human organ transplant, of a kidney, at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. This is also the day in 1938 when Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch of the West costume catches fire during filming of The Wizard of Oz; she is severely burned. In a morbid segue today marks the 1972 rescue of the last of 16 airplane crash victims who spent 70 days high in the South American Andes surviving by cannibalism. Yum. Fava beans and a nice Chianti.

This lovely Chopstick Instructions Hoodie (this is the back view) — more styles here — is from the Randomness on T-Shirts & Gifts department of the highly aesthetically-tuned and prolific CafePress.com Lekker Designs shop, whose beautiful works I have featured before. (Lekker happens to mean "tasty" in Dutch and unlike today's edition their creative production is not disgusting at all.)

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