After a family holiday party, my father, sisters, and wife went and saw the movie, I am Legend (if you’ve read the book, please do not see this “adaptation”). As I was walking to the theater, I saw the preceding “Aluminum Foil Man” in a storage room.

I’m not sure where the hell it came from, or why it was created, but my friends who used to work in theaters say this kind of thing happens very often. After the promotional materials are no longer needed, they get appropriated to someone’s house or the end up in the back, heavily modified.

“I do tend to avoid public places as much as I can,” he said.

Wow, seriously? Why would making yourself look like Papa Smurf cause one to experience social anxiety?

In the days before antibiotics, people used a remedy named colloidal silver to fight infections, disease, and pretty much to solve any other medical problem one might have. While it does have some verifiable medicinal properties, modern medicine has come a long way in the last 150+ years and we now have better remedies that do not cause irreversible discoloration of this skin.

Paul Karason now has a condition named Argyria, and he will so the rest of his life. He lived in Oregon, but now has moved to California to get away from the “unkind” people who were no very accepting of his new skin color.

Honestly Bro, you are totally boned in the “people won’t stare at me” department.

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They sell some weird stuff over in Chinatown.

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(via my sister, TheDPQ)