The Tachanka: A Thing William Cals Love

A Ukrainian horse-drawn machine gun that can only fire backwards as one retreats. Rumor has it that the Tachanka was invented by Nestor Makhno, a kind of Ukrainian Che Guevara. This one  says, "Death to the black robber baron Vrangel!"
(source: Wikipedia)

90s Videos of Dead Ladies in the Water: Happy Halloween

The 1990s was a scary decade. Marilyn Manson personally killed several people at his concerts.¹ The deadliest job was "attractive young rock star," and the second deadliest was "attractive young actor." With the American homicide rate reaching 9.8 per 100,000 people², the third deadliest job was "citizen of the USA." The AIDS epidemic, shrinking rainforest, Rodney King riots, ebola, and America On-Line showed us that, even though the Russians weren't going to vaporize us, the world was closing in around our throats. Sex, violence, jealousy and revenge were the order of the day, as evidenced by OJ Simpson, Lorena Bobbitt, Tanya Harding, and Amy Fisher. We didn't start the fire.

So, how did our pop culture reflect this? By creating rock videos about dead ladies in the water. Beginning with Tom Petty and "Mary Jane's Last Dance," we have the 5 best watery dead ladies of 1990s rock videos, after the jump.