With Halloween fast approaching and Christmas not far behind, we assume these folks are sensing a marketing opportunity, but it made us a tad discombobulated. An online retailer called BlueLips.com has one of the weirder inventories we’ve seen lately; they seem obsessed with death and the Dark Side. Hey, whatever floats your boat, but they’re now pushing a DVD, called An Uncensored Look At The Embalming Process. (Wait, WHAT?!) Why anyone would wanna see that is beyond us, but we will admit to spending too much time scrolling around their site, looking at “coffin keychains,” “Disaster Videos,” and “Gothic T-Shirts and Skull-Caps.” Because nothing says “Happy Holidays!” like a “Death Rider T-Shirt.” Enter at your own risk.
Ya'all need to lighten up on Bluelips. They are a cool place to shop and actually I've gotten a better education from them as a mortuary student than I have in school. So yes, there is a market for this. By the way are you aware that the business was started by a cancer patient to LAUGH at death? They also donate 25% of their profits to breast cancer research. Sure it's a wild site, but hey it does good, too.
Posted by: Jessie Ladue | November 05, 2007 at 01:47 PM